Will this hub have enough power to run my 2 4TB Seagate BackUp Plus External Desktop Drives without using their respective power adapters?
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I have never used it like that myself as my backup drives do not use the usb as a power source. I suppose you could use it that way as long as you use the hubs line power source. Most of the time I do not use the hub's power source as I use it as a conduit from my laptop's usb.
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This hub isn't for doing that. It's for adding USB slots when your computer's USB slots are filled. I have USB lines from two external drives, a printer, a mouse, and a cooling pad hooked up to my hub. You'll still need to plug your external drives power adaptors into a suge surpressor.
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Dear Annabelle, Unfortunately, our Premium 4 Port USB Hub is not powered, and will not power an external Superdrive (which is the case with most USB hubs) as they require over 500mA. The total amount of power going to the hub may not exceed 500mA. If you have any other questions or concerns please let us know. Thank you,Satechi Technical Support
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Very little. Don't plug a HD or scanner into it, or anything that draws a significant amount of power. Trying to drw much power out of one of the USB 2 ports can drag down the entire hub for that port. Plug things into it that you would plug into an unpowered hub.
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To my knowledge, the larger ones (1TB +) seem to have external power. The smaller ones (less than 1TB) are just powered by USB. Those are the ones I have anyway.
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Depending on the drive.. Some smaller (2.5", 1.8", etc) drives enclosures require no additional power and if they are capable of using a single (or sometimes dual) USB ports for operation, you will have no trouble using them with this hub. However, larger drives (3.5") enclosures must be plugged in to external power source (they usually come with power adapters). For those you will not be able to operate them with this hub only, without external power source.
2020846
Would think so because I run single hard drive from my hub the reason I bought it
2020841
The hub itself can use an ac adapter (not included) however it is not required from my experience. But, if your external drives use an external power such as a ac adapter then yes you would still need the power for those drives but not for the usb 3.0 hub itself. You would only need to power the hub itself for power hungry applications. I currently have a WD Ultra Passport external drive (which requires no external power) and two external disc drives attached to mine (one lightscribe dvd writer, and one asus bluray writer drive) each of which is powered seperatly by ac cord. My 4 port Sabrent USB 3.0 Hub has no power to it other than the computers bus power. I hope this helps. Cheers! The hub itself can use an ac adapter (not included) however it is not required from my experience. But, if your external drives use an external power such as a ac adapter then yes you would still need the power for those drives but not for the usb 3.0 hub itself. You would only need to power the hub itself for power hungry applications. I currently have a WD Ultra Passport external drive (which requires no external power) and two external disc drives attached to mine (one lightscribe dvd writer, and one asus bluray writer drive) each of which is powered seperatly by ac cord. My 4 port... » Read More The hub itself can use an ac adapter (not included) however it is not required from my experience. But, if your external drives use an external power such as a ac adapter then yes you would still need the power for those drives but not for the usb 3.0 hub itself. You would only need to power the hub itself for power hungry applications. I currently have a WD Ultra Passport external drive (which requires no external power) and two external disc drives attached to mine (one lightscribe dvd writer, and one asus bluray writer drive) each of which is powered seperatly by ac cord. My 4 port Sabrent USB 3.0 Hub has no power to it other than the computers bus power. I hope this helps. Cheers! « Show Less
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Not exactly sure about your question.EVERY drive will need both a power cable and a data cable.
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Yes, that will work. The 2nd USB connector is just for power. That's because some older USB ports will detect a power overload if the drive tries to pull all its power from a single port. To workaround that they the Y cable can be used to pull power from 2 ports. Non-anceint USB ports, like 2.0 or 3.0 or from a powered hub will probably work fine if you just plug in the one end of the cable. Try it with just one. If it works, you're good. If it doesn't, the computer will tell you "power overload detected" and the drive won't work, but no damage will be done.
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The quick answer is, "Yes."However, this hub is not self-powered; it does not have an AC adaptor. It draws its power from the computer or the device to which it is attached. It has 3 USB ports and an SD-card slot (a very clever and welcome feature), so it can potentially draw the power of 4 devices, which is about the limit for a computer such as the iMac, but it appears to work fine on mine. The warnings expressed by the previous writer are correct.
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One drive-likely no problem. You could try attaching 2 drives and might be fine, I am not sure. Again, to be safe, buy a "powered"hub.
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No, you don't need power for this great enclosure. This enclosure is very good can take my thick HDD too while many others cannot.I just connected only 1 USB 2.0 to my laptop without external power. I have to use 2 USB on my other enclosures. But if your computer cannot give enough power you can use 2 USB cable or connect external power.
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YES it can, (even with USB3 HDD)if you don't need the extra power you don't need the power adapter.
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You need the 2 ports to power the HDD. Depends on your hard drive model only one port may not be enough.
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Probably. I have six external hard drives, a dvd writer/player, an audio system, and I don't know how much more hooked up to it. I've never noticed a single problem with it, unlike every other USB Hub I've had, and there have many since I have so many external devices to hook up.
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I haven't personally tried this, but it is externally powered by an outlet, so I don't see why not. It would have enough power to work. But speeds will depend on your computers chipset, your external drives and the Hubs maximum supported rate.
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I'm guessing it would do okay as long as the initial USB port you plug into is USB 3.0. I have 6 usb 2.0 drives and 1 usb 3.0 external drives hooked to my hub. The 3.0 drive just flys, but so does the others.