Low power laptop harddrive

[vxspiritxv]

I got one of those usb 2.5 external cases. Anyways the specs call for under 500mA. I have yet to see a drive that fits this requirement. What I was wanting to get (before I read the manual) was http://www.fel.fujitsu.com/home/v3__product.asp?pid=470&inf=fsp&wg=13 but it has 0.90 amp spin up (900mA right?) everything else I have found so far is even worse.

Anyone know of any lower power 2.5 hd? Speed doesn't matter as it will be a usb mp3 device hooked to my bran new Kenwood KDC-X890

 

[drizzt81]

yes .9A = 900mA. The USB bus limits the devices to 500 mA IIRC.

 

[unhappy_mage]

Hmm. .9A is definitely pretty high. But I'm not sure they're not just hedging their bets; notice that it only takes 1.6 watts (at 5 volts, so that's 320 mA) when it's writing and half a watt (100 mA) at idle. That could be a worst-case scenario.

Could you maybe get a power adapter for it? You might be able to find a 12V->5V if this is for a car. That would simplify things a bit.

And I'd need a bigger drive than that, pretty soon... but I guess it doesn't do flac

 

[vxspiritxv]

The hard drive cannot use more the 500ma of power. I bought this deck because I liked the idea of being able to plug my 20 gig external notebook hard drive right into the deck. It wouldn't run because notebook hard drives need more than 500ma to start up.

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-vppcsgsQX3B/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=300&I=113MP532&id=review