External HDD for jukebox (Off Topic)

by DeMarko , Saturday, July 15, 2006, 14:10 (6495 days ago)

Dear Forum members,

Does anyone have experience with connecting external hard drive with music to a notebook that, in its turn, is connected to the DAC / TwinDac.

I now have 3.5" HDD external, connected to the notebook. Since this external HDD is connected to the mains, I get additional noise, very audible. For this reason, I prefer to listen to music from the internal hard drive but its capacity surely isn't enough.

I want to switch to 2.5" external HDD not only because they are quiter than 3.5" but also because I don't need to connect it to the mains and theoretically USB power is enough.

My questions:
1. would USB power be enough to run the external 2.5" HDD.

2. also, here both the music data and the power are transmitted via the same cable, does it influence the data quality, adds additional "noise" or anything like that????

3. some external 2.5" HDD cases use 2 USB ports / 2 cables. Would that be better or worse for the data quality? Or will it add more noise and complications?

Thank you,
Dmitry.

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