[fpc-devel] Bounty for MIPS

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Marco van de Voort schrieb:

> I've seen 2.5" usb-only HDD's crash laptops, and my experiences with other
> arm devices (Sheeva, goflex are the same).
> 
> In short, no devices that don't have an own PSU.

My experience is quite different from yours. I've a couple of external 
3.5" HHDs with external PSUs, which ceased to work a few days after 
warranty expired, with a hot cabinet and inoperative HDD, all data lost :-(

In contrast none of my external 2.5" HDDs with USB power failed (so far).

DoDi