Using an external hd with a minix box

stoksyxl

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Quick question for the tech guys. I’m wondering what’s the largest capacity external hard drive that you can use with the minix x8-h? I’m looking to pick up an external hd for playing my music and movie files from and was wondering what’s the best way to go about it? I’m just looking to fill the drive with music and movies and either leave it connected all the time to the minix box for playing my music, or just connect and disconnect it when I want to play some music or watch a movie or whatever.

Ideally I was looking to pick up a smaller external drive that doesn’t need its own power supply and can be ran from the usb power coming straight from the minix box, is this possible? Something like the Western Digital My Passport drives, or if there’s something a bit better than those and with faster read speeds?

Anyone have some experience with this kinda thing and can help me out with some info?

Thanks
 
WD My Passport USB portable drives work fine. I have been using them for years. I currently use 2TB portable drives. But you can really only reliably attach one unpowered drive. If you need to attach multiple powered, or unpowered, drives, you should use a powered USB hub.

The X8-H is a rather old minix device. I haven't used mine in ages. I also have a retired U1 and I just recently retired my U9-H.
 
Quick question for the tech guys. I’m wondering what’s the largest capacity external hard drive that you can use with the minix x8-h? <snip>

Sorry, sort of missed that in my previous reply. I am not sure about the X8-H, being rather old and all, but I have used 8TB external HDs in a SATA dock on my U1, U9-H and U22.
 
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