Scirocco Central

Hi guys, I had a brilliant Transcend 1.8" shockproof hard drive plugged into the MDI/USB in my centre console without a problem since 2009. That was, until some s#*t jammed my key fob signal and then nicked it overnight!

Sadly Transcend don't make 1.8" drives any more, and their 2.5" ones won't fit - so I've had to buy a solid state one (ESD220C) instead. It wasn't much different in price and is TINY!

My question is about power consumption. I can remember my 1.8" drive came with a Y-shaped cable to draw power from 2 USB ports - but I never needed to use it.

However the new solid state one says 900mA on a sticker on the back, which sounds rather like 2 USB's worth. A bit puzzling as I thought a solid state drive wouldn't need much power, with no moving parts? Although it's supplied with a cable for just a single USB port.

Anyway the cable is in a sealed bag, so I don't want to open it yet in case I have to return the drive. Does anyone know if it will get enough power from the MDI interface if it needs 0.9A? I'm hoping it might given that my old drive (with spinning parts) managed to?

If anyone's had experience with which drives do work I'd be grateful.

Cheers!



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How much music do you store? I have a simple 32Gb sandisk memory stick full of my stuff and that works fine. The USB connector goes into a wire which lives inside th centre armrest, fitting in the same socket as you would use to connect your iPod/iPhone.

Apologies if there is a big difference between our cars and yours has a USB slot In front of the gearbox instead, or similar.

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iphone needs 2.1A and that charges quite happily from a single usb.

Thanks for replies. Yes I'm talking about the centre console socket and I'm trying to fit a 120Gb drive (which is still smaller than a credit card!)
I've been doing quite a lot more research on this. USB seems to have a 'charging' spec (which gives you the 2.1A for an iPhone you mention) and a 'data transfer' spec which is indeed up to 0.9A for USB.3.0 which this drive supports.
It seems that the two specs may not be usable at the same time - ie if you want to transfer data it won't necessarily draw more than 0.9A (USB.3.0) when doing so.
What's reassured me though is the new drive says it's backward compatible with USB2.0 and that has a maximum current of 0.5A for data transfer - I think it may just not transfer at as high a speed as USB.3.0.
I'm sure the Roc provides at least 0.5A so I'm going to try it.
Thanks for listening!

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Update : have got it to work [emoji1] Had to be formatted to FAT32 system first though. Needed third party software as Windows won't format to FAT32 when it's >32Gb. But all well in the end.

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