Help on external firewire hard drive for laptop....

[Testosterone boy]

My laptop has the little 4 pin firewire connection so it cannot supply power to the external hard drive as I understand it.

Does someone know a surefire way to supply laptop battery power to the external hard drive when household current is not available?

I have 2 laptop batteries, I hear this is a huge batter killer.



I am thinking a 250GB external would hold some good stuff.

 

[Testosterone boy]

bump

 

[justyxxxx]

I've always plugged my externals into the wall outlet nearby. I don't know how long you need the power to last, but there's always the battery pack option such as APC or maybe even finding something really cheap from a company such as tigerdirect.com . . .

Of course, you could always bring in a big gas powered engine and plug the bitch into that.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

there are some external cases out there that supply power through the firewire port, so no need for an external power source

 

[Testosterone boy]

there are some external cases out there that supply power through the firewire port, so no need for an external power source

They require the 6 pin firewire connection to get their power from the computer.

There is supposed to be a USB type power supply somewhere.....maybe.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

hm youre right

get an addon card and a new case

 

[Testosterone boy]

My friggin laptop has a bad case of teh vanishing hard drive space. Every time I use it I delete programs and photos yet have less hard drive space available. It is to the point that it is useless for photography work.


I am going to fromat the damned hard driveand install the recovery discs that it came with before deleting everything I don't need. I'll bet the suckers still fills 12GB of space............somehow. It has never been on the internet, I don't know what fills it other than a Photoshop bug gone nuts that mysteriously saves everything.