Hi there
I have bought a
wd external harddisk called
my passport 320 gb and it works great.
Just had some problems with it with a long
usb cable and after i used the original cable
it just works perfectly.
So how long can this usb cable be in order for it
to work with usb 3.0 ?
Joe_S
October 4, 2011, 3:06pm
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If you use one longer than the one supplied their may be a problem as you found out. These drives are extremely sensitive to voltage and a lot of PCs have pretty wimpy power supplies.
Joe
Well to be exact i used an externsion
cable which is not a usb 3.0 cable but a
2.0 cable because the store ran out of the 3.0 ones.
The cable is 10 times the lenght of the supplied cable.
So the question is can i buy s shorter extension
cable that is only 2 times the lenght of the supplied cable
or is the supplied cable the only way to go ?