Spec me ext - power adapters for canada

[Tens]

Am after the cheapest 500gb ext hdd BUT has to be ok for 110v 60hz (canada)

The one on offer (lacie) at the moment seems like a great deal but I have looked around lots of sites can cant see the voltage spec.

Most adapters seem ok as they range from 100v-240v like my laptop.

Another thing is i will be using it with my laptop but my usb is a crappy old usb 1.1 and doesnt work with a lot of things that require power like my G5 mouse as it says power exceeded.

Any adive greatly appreciated.

 

[Tens]

bump. help please!

 

[PhillyDee]

Phone up the shop and ask what the voltage is?

 

[Tens]

do all ext hdds work with old usb ports and will it exceed power or does it draw absolutly no power cos most of the time a lot of devices dont work on the port.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Since your USB ports on the laptop seem to be amazingly poor at supplying voltage it might be worth trying to find a PCMCIA card with USB ports on it, I'm not sure where still sells them or even if anyone does but they did exist for a while.

 

[Tens]

does an ext hdd even need any voltage at all as it has an adapter to power it?

 

[semi-pro waster]

I'm afraid I don't know, I don't have an external hard drive but I'd suspect that most of the power will be supplied by the adapter and it will be just data going through the USB leads. However USB 1.1 is painfully slow for transferring anything more than a couple of MB.

 

[Tens]

lol tell me about it, been putting stuff on my laptop with a 1gb usb pen