What Powered Hard Disk for S9/S10?

[yankee495]

I have not seen much on this. Some drives cause my S9 to not power down by remote and the picture just freezes. I read about it or I would've thought it was broke. I am talking about external hard disk drives with a power adapter.

The Hitachi SimpleDrive Mini 320GB USB 2.0 2.5" External Hard Drive caused the problem. They do not come with a 5v adapter but I got me one...wouldn't work at all without it though it does on my laptop.

Then I got a Rosewill RX355-X2 3.5" USB2.0 & eSATA External Enclosure, put in a 750GB SATA drive and no more power down problems. This is a nice case with two fans...very nice!

So, what other drives or cases to be exact, cause the S9/S10 to not power off properly with the remote? Which ones work?

 

[Tron]

The Western Digital Passport drives will work on the S9 without any problems or need for external power. These are the only portable (2.5" device-powered) drives I've tested on the Openbox.

 

[yankee495]

The Hitachi SimpleDrive Mini 320GB USB 2.0 2.5" is a device powered HDD that DID NOT work for me. It works great on the laptop and NOT on my desktop...You'd think it would be the other way around.

 

[the_man_one]

seagate 1 tb externally powered usb 2.0 works perfectly (sorry misread the original post u wanted usb powered i think)

 

[Tron]

With device-powered drives, it is very important to only use the supplied cable to connect the drive. The cable is usually very short, and longer cables tend not to work.