2018-04-10, 01:40
(2018-04-10, 01:30)Knocks Wrote: @wrxtasy Problems spinning up a single 2.5" bus-powered USB 3.0 drive. The response from OSMC devs was that not all drives are supported. The suggested solution was to get a USB hub with a power brick, which is obviously not very elegant for a living room already too crowded with cables and AC adapters and defeats the purpose of buying a portable, bus-powered drive.We first suggested that you verified whether you were experiencing problems due to insufficient powering of the drive. I have given you instructions of how to do this via PM after you stated that you were unsure of how to do this.
Insufficient power via port is of course an inherent limitation of the 2.0 era, but since you can no longer walk into a store and buy a 2.0 drive (and why would you?), supporting the devices that are out in the retail channels is essential.
At no point did anyone (from OSMC) suggest that you stick to a USB 2.0 hard disk.
Plenty of users do power USB 3.0 drives from their Vero 4K.
There may be some disks that cannot be powered from a single USB port, but the general rule of thumb is that if they don't ship with an external power supply, they'll work. I suspect that is true in your case as well, but you have failed to upload any logs via My OSMC to verify this.
I'd be happy to take a call and help you with this should you require any further assistance. I've sent you my contact details. But the trolling, and sending abusive PMs has to stop.
Sam.
