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Re:The new MacBook by X-Istence on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:25PM (#9173303)
Then your hub is not doing a good job of providing the 500 mA that it supposed to give to devices, or your USB powered hard drive actually requires more than 500 mA to do its thing.
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Re:The new MacBook by archagon on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:44PM (#9173451)
I believe my drives use 500mA each for power.
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Re:The new MacBook by X-Istence on Monday March 09, 2015 @08:48PM (#9175195)
Make sure the power brick that your powered hub came with is capable of powering the N+ devices you have at the same time. Most of the 4 port hubs come with 2A power supplies, however sometimes they skimp on actually being able to deliver that power.
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