Is it OK to use with an external harddrive? Mine takes a power cord and short usb wire. I want to connect this w/its short usb cord.
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I haven't tested this personally, but considering the hard drive has AC power, it should not be an issue. I'm assuming this probably wouldn't work well or at all with a USB powered hard drive.
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Dear Customer,Thank you for your question regarding our BlueRigger active USB extender cable! If your hard drive is connected to a power cable, our USB extender cable should work with it. This cable will work with data, but not for charging devices.Please contact us at service@bluerigger.com if you have any additional questions.Thanks,BlueRigger LLCservice@bluerigger.com
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Like it's been said if your drive has a plug you should be fine, but the longer a USB cable is, the less amount of power there is that GETS to a device. Like the rep said I doubt this would charge / power ANYTHING, not even a tiny mp3 player. Let alone a usb hard drive like a WD passport.
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I use this from my laptop to my camera on a tripod, outside. I'm getting live video feed from the camera and can control the camera from the laptop. (Canon EOS t2i) It works fine for that. I use no external power source with it. Being your Ext HD is otherwise powered, I would expect it to work just fine for that.
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I have it connected to an external hard drive and it works fine. Using the external hard drive as a backup drive
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No, you can use the external hard drive, it only support internal hard drive, sorry for that.
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I have an external USB hard drive connected and it works fine. You can even play back files from the USB drive. I have a 1 TB external drive.
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Hey Bobbbo: I just plugged a 1 TB drive into the Micro 2. It gets its power from the USB, not external power and it's working fine. So you should be fine doing what you want. btw, I'm very happy with the unit too.
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Mine came with a power brick, for what it's worth. I believe that this hub corrupted my external usb 3.0 hdd, and pretty much killed it. Don't know this for a fact but I don't use it anymore.
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I just used the USM power cable for the SSD I installed. My last computer (HP Pavillion) had a similar slot for an external plug in hard drive, and I never used it. I figure I wouldn't use it on this computer either, so I just unplugged the power from the USM and plugged it into the SSD. Have had it like this for about 3 months with no problems. Hope that helps.
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No it won't work with a USB hard drive I tried it and it didn't work I think the external hard drive requires more power than the tablet can provide
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Do the external drives to be connected to the hub have their own power source? If they are intended to run off of the power of the hub, you may have problems. This is my speculation based on the note under the product description stating the product should not be used with WD passport hard drives. I have several of those, each 1TB, and they run off the power of the hub. Currently, they are plugged into USB 2.0 ports, but they are USB 3.0 compatible products used as "backwards compatible," and run very slowly with USB 2.0, but they run. With USB 3.0, there is evidently a reason they are not supposed to be used. So, I would say it depends on whether the external hard drives have their own power source and, specifically, if they are WD passport drives, the product information I saw said they should not be used with this hub.
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You are correct on your question. I don't use the power cable for my external hard drive
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I don't know what the WD hard drive calls for but I doubt it. This has the "micro" USB plug on one end, which is smaller than most external hard drives I've used have.
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That's one of the big flaws in that drive -- after a while the USB connector in the unit itself starts to fail. for the short term, you may be able to jiggle the cord to get some connection, but in the long run it is going to become unusable.
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The end that plugs into the hard drive is mini USB. Do not use third party USB cables with this hard drive, the mini USB plug on those adapters is too loose.
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Like the person answering before me: If your external harddrive is a standard one, most likely with a little work.yes..But Its designed to connect most standard hard drives to a computer. So strictly speaking, you can't connect an external harddrive. But most external harddrives consist of a normal hard drive in a housing. Once you remove that housing you can connect this harddrive to this item. This of course voids your warranty on that external harddrive and you should know what you are doing as you can break the hard drive if you open these enclosures improperly. Also, make sure your enclosure has a standard harddrive in it (with a standard ata or sataConnector). Like the person answering before me: If your external harddrive is a standard one, most likely with a little work.yes..But Its designed to connect most standard hard drives to a computer. So strictly speaking, you can't connect an external harddrive. But most external harddrives consist of a normal hard drive in a housing. Once you remove that housing you can connect this harddrive to this item. This of course voids your warranty on that external harddrive and you should know what you are doing as you can break the hard drive if you open these enclosures improperly. Also, make sure your... » Read More Like the person answering before me: If your external harddrive is a standard one, most likely with a little work.yes..But Its designed to connect most standard hard drives to a computer. So strictly speaking, you can't connect an external harddrive. But most external harddrives consist of a normal hard drive in a housing. Once you remove that housing you can connect this harddrive to this item. This of course voids your warranty on that external harddrive and you should know what you are doing as you can break the hard drive if you open these enclosures improperly. Also, make sure your enclosure has a standard harddrive in it (with a standard ata or sataConnector). « Show Less
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It uses a mini USB. I know its not common in things other than portable USB hard drives and hubs, but a cable is included in the box and replacements can be had for cheap.
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I tried to plug in an external 320GB hard drive and it didn't work at all. The enclosure had its own power supply and I have plugged it into other USB Hubs before, but this one didn't even recognize it. don't know if it was defective or a limitation of the design, but I am returning it considering that I bought this Hub to swap multiple external hard drives and thumb drives. Hope this helps.
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To be very honest with you I do not think the mini-usb port in back of the projector is for an external hard drive. I have several HD'S and none of them have a mini-usb-cable. ON page 9 of the owner's manual all it shows is the mini-usb cable to a lap-top. The usb button on the remote is non-working. A better bet would be to hook your external hard drive to a BD player w/a usb port or get a Western Digital media Center and you could connect your HD to the Media Center, either way your movies will be going through the HDMI cable which should give you a better picture than a straight usb cable to the projector.