Hello all. I've been wanting an external hard drive encosure forever, but the 2.5" drives were way out of my pricerange, and the power bricks on the 3.5" drives make them essentially non portable to me. I didn't realize until today that there are external drives that will power themselves off the 5V rail on the PS/2 ports, which gets rid of the power brick. I have two questions about this . . .
1. Anyone know where a cheap one is in stock? The only one I could find on newegg had a great price ($41 shipped) but was OOS. The USB2 + FW version was $10 more, but I really don't need FW.
2. Are these really safe? Hard drives can draw 1A+. I'm planning to stick a 5400rpm drive in there, but that will probably still use ~0.7A. This is a hell of a lot more current then a keyboard or mouse takes, and probably a lot more then most PS/2 ports are designed for. Are these things a risk, or is drawing 1A via your ps/2 port safe?
-Chu
1. Anyone know where a cheap one is in stock? The only one I could find on newegg had a great price ($41 shipped) but was OOS. The USB2 + FW version was $10 more, but I really don't need FW.
2. Are these really safe? Hard drives can draw 1A+. I'm planning to stick a 5400rpm drive in there, but that will probably still use ~0.7A. This is a hell of a lot more current then a keyboard or mouse takes, and probably a lot more then most PS/2 ports are designed for. Are these things a risk, or is drawing 1A via your ps/2 port safe?
-Chu
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