droptableadventures@alien.topBtoData Hoarder@selfhosted.forum•Do all external hard drives require a power supply with positive polarity?English
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1 year agoThere’s also drives with a 4-pin DIN connector for 5 and 12v. And there’s no standard for which side 5 and 12 are on.
Have killed a disk using the wrong power brick. And it had some data on it I had nowhere else.
Got the data back years later when I bought another similar drive and board swapped them - but this was in the era of 750GB drives where you could do that and it’d actually work.
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Wow. I was nowhere close in the thread below… but then /u/cosmicseashore posted it there 26 days ago!
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16zdhmx/if_im_not_mistaken_one_of_these_hills_in_this/