Powering a portable HDD
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Hi there,
I've got a little project with my pine in which I need to use a portable HDD to it. The thing is that it seems that it's not working correctly. I'm not sure about the model of pine A64 I'm using, I'm using the one that got shipped at the release of the Kickstarter fundraising, and I'm trying to make it work with a Western Digital Portable Essentials 2To (WDBU6Y0020BBK). Actually the hard drives makes a clicking noise while my pine is trying to access it, and after a little research I've found out that it might not be receiving enough power from the usb port (since the hdd is working perfectly on my computer).
Now that I've identified the problem I'm not sure at all about how to tackle this issue. Is the easiest solution to use a powered USB hub, or is there something fancier that would take less space (or are there even single USB powered "hubs")?
Oh by the way I'm powering the Pine board with a Samsung Travel Adapter which outputs 5.0V 1.0A.


Messages In This Thread
Powering a portable HDD - by JambonLeVrai - 02-14-2019, 06:56 PM
RE: Powering a portable HDD - by gamelaster - 02-16-2019, 05:32 AM
Powering a portable HDD - by necrose99 - 02-17-2019, 06:49 PM
RE: Powering a portable HDD - by InsideJob - 04-10-2019, 04:01 PM

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