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Panama on 14 March 2015
pbroy said:
Panama said:
Do USB powered HDDs work?


Yup, as long as it's USB 3.0.


Cheers.



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Tachikoma on 14 March 2015

I havent found 500gb worth installing yet.
The other thing is, with 2gbit net deleting them and redownloading becomes a viable option



pbroy on 14 March 2015
SamuelRSmith said:
pbroy said:

I use my Xbone for TV mostly and voice commanding all my entertainment, along with smartglass for an all-in-one remote. I also have an 8 way HDMI splitter. That little thing to the left of my PS4. I have it split to 3 TVs. One in the Family room, one in the living room and one in the place I spend most, the kitchen. So I can just smartglass from anywhere.

I've grown lazy of home console gaming. It's gotten too time consuming. I game mostly on my Vita these days. But when I eventually get tired of life and decide to just stay home all day, I'll have everything ready and waiting for me.


To be honest, I don't play games all that much at the moment. Not through lack of want, just don't have the time these days. I actually do the same thing, just a bit of Vita action whenever I can slide in 10-15 minutes of game time here or there.

I don't watch TV, either. Also because of lack of time, but generally because I don't watch TV at all anyways. Sucks, 'cause I signed up to a 2 year cable contract last September, must have watched about 30 minutes of TV on it. /lesigh.

I will one day get myself a really awesome entertainment setup. Even if I never use it, it'll be one of those boyhood dreams that I will achieve.

Seems like we are alike in many ways. I will one day have a movie theater like entertainment room that I've always dreamed of, just to have it. Maybe a wall full of sealed games, just to make me feel good of owning. 

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pbroy on 14 March 2015
kowenicki said:

2TB.

wd passport ultra, so so small and usb powered obviously.  See that tiny little thing to the right pf the xbox one.... thats it.


When I first saw that pic, I thought  you had it in a microwave. But then realized it's your entertainment center. I too have that same portable HDD. I use it as my porn drive. Was considering using it, but it probably would fill up quick for me.

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Chazore on 14 March 2015
sc94597 said:

For those worried about a console taking up space, here are some 1 TB HDD's:

 

 

Loving mine so far, really love how tiny they are with so much space.

Mines blue but it's the same as this one, I should be getting another one from my local PC world next week since I've almost filled the current one.



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pbroy on 14 March 2015

I get worried about those little portable drives overheating.

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pbroy on 14 March 2015
Hiku said:

I checked your model earlier (haven't replied to your post yet, but I'll get to it) and from what I gather yours is power cable driven and 7200 rpm. If you recall, we were talking about how USB cable driven ones generally were 5400. I was under the impression that you implied yours was USB cable driven since you didn't clarify that it was indeed power cable driven.

As for this one, I didn't look into it further than the comments at the bottom of the amazon page, where someone said its 5400 rpm. He linked to this PC mag here, that claims it's 5200: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400958,00.asp
Perhaps they're wrong though.


I think it is 5400. Box doesn't say.

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sc94597 on 14 March 2015
pbroy said:

I get worried about those little portable drives overheating.

Had a small 250 GB Western Digital for like 5 years now. Used it for Wii backups, as well as backup PC storage in another partition. Never any problems, other than I guess speed is much less than an internal drive. 



sc94597 on 14 March 2015
pbroy said:

I get worried about those little portable drives overheating.

Had a small 250 GB Western Digital for like 5 years now. Used it for Wii backups, as well as backup PC storage in another partition. Never any problems, other than I guess speed is much less than an internal drive. 



dane007 on 14 March 2015

@hiku Mine has a usb plugged into the xbox one and it has power adapter to power the harddrive which is what OP has. Its 7200 The link that you gave me , does not have the hard drive that i have. Where i buy my electronics from , they all said it was 7200 and usb 3.0