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24 votes
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Please help me understand and manage external hdd sleep
I have an external drive (3.5" hdd, SATA) in an enclosure (usb 3) (purchased separately), connected to a thunderbolt dock (OWC) connected alternately to an iMac and a macbook pro. The HDD goes to...
I have an external drive (3.5" hdd, SATA) in an enclosure (usb 3) (purchased separately), connected to a thunderbolt dock (OWC) connected alternately to an iMac and a macbook pro. The HDD goes to sleep, and causes problems. Freezes, weird internet access problems, kernel panics.
I have done some research, and can't seem to figure out:
how to know whether it is the drive, enclosure, or computer causing the sleep, although, fiddling with various settings on the mac seemed to have no effect, although it may have increased my battery usage :(
how to adjust settings on the drive, or in the enclosure.
How to determine what the sleep behavior of prospective drives will be.
As a workaround, I tried to write a zsh script to touch the drive ever few seconds. This kinda worked, but was a struggle to figure out appropriate permissions issues and how to make it run automatically.
I welcome all guidance, pointers to resources, clarifications, incantations, well-wishes.
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Seeking advice for solving USB-C hell on new laptop
Edit: I changed some windows settings based on advice here. The situation is improved and I am going to see how things go before buying new equipment. Thank you everyone So I recently bought a new...
Edit: I changed some windows settings based on advice here. The situation is improved and I am going to see how things go before buying new equipment. Thank you everyone
So I recently bought a new laptop. I use an external mouse, keyboard, headphones etc, all of which come with usb A connectors that worked well with my old laptop.
When the new laptop arrived there weren't nearly enough ports for either usb A or usb c so I invested in a peripheral that links four usb a connections to one usb c connection on the laptop. Edit, it is powered and plugged in. Now the connection with everything plugged in seems to be intermittent and the mouse and external keyboard don't work reliably.
I have read a couple of articles and I am even more confused but they seem to be saying that usb c is not plug and play the way usb a was. What the fuck. Why do this like this? What do I do now?
I just spent significant money on this computer and I don't want to replace a functioning mouse and keyboard
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Will the switch to USB-C be good for repair?
25 votes -
Apple unveils iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
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High quality USB-C in-ear monitors or good aux-to-USB-C adapters?
I recently upgraded my phone and to my dismay everyone followed apples moronic choice to remove aux ports. I want to keep using my KZ in ears, and while they have bluetooth adapters I rarely like...
I recently upgraded my phone and to my dismay everyone followed apples moronic choice to remove aux ports.
I want to keep using my KZ in ears, and while they have bluetooth adapters I rarely like how bluetooth sounds and also don't want to worry about having to charge them either.
Both adapters I've bought either buzz like crazy or my phone is convinced is constantly disconnecting and pausing my music. Anyone know of anything in the budget range thats as good as KZ or good adapters?
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Russia-backed hackers unleash new USB-based malware on Ukraine’s military
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Apple executive on adoption of USB-C under EU law
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Explaining USB: From 1.0 to USB4 V2
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Breaking down how USB4 goes where no USB standard has gone before
15 votes -
How the world's first USB-C iPhone was born
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Manufacturers will be forced to create a universal charging solution for phones and small electronic devices, under a new rule proposed by the European Commission
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Anyone order a USB cable lately?
OK, so this is kind of a weird question, but has anyone here ordered a USB cable recently, and if so, how long did it take to arrive? I ordered a 3 meter USB A male to USB A male cable on June...
OK, so this is kind of a weird question, but has anyone here ordered a USB cable recently, and if so, how long did it take to arrive? I ordered a 3 meter USB A male to USB A male cable on June 27th from NewEgg, who have been fairly reliable in the past. I got an email later that day or the next saying the shipping label had been printed. So I thought, OK, it will go out in the next day or two. It still hasn’t shipped. After about 2 weeks of waiting, I ordered another one from B&H Photo. It also hasn’t arrived yet. I know there is a global chip shortage. Would that affect cabling too? It just seems odd that it’s taking so long to get a single USB cable. Anyone else experience this or am I just unlucky this month?
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The confusing world of USB
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Report from Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to launch several Macs with Arm-based processors in 2021, USB4 support coming to Macs in 2022
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Apple will reportedly release an iPhone without any ports in 2021
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Raspberry Pi Foundation confirms faulty USB-C design on Pi 4, plans to fix it in a future board revision
9 votes -
USB inventor regrets making them so difficult to plug in correctly
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USB4 will support Thunderbolt and double the speed of USB 3.2
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Solo - Open source FIDO2 security USB key
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Bring back the headphone jack: Why USB-C audio still doesn't work
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Do small capacity, fast flash drives even exist?
I've been trying to find a small capacity (64GB or less) flash drive with decent read and write speeds, but haven't been able to find anything. I'm looking for something in the 200-300 MB/s...
I've been trying to find a small capacity (64GB or less) flash drive with decent read and write speeds, but haven't been able to find anything. I'm looking for something in the 200-300 MB/s read/write range, but I can't seem to find anything that reliably breaks the 100 MB/s mark even in larger capacities. The SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GB seems to have adequate performance, but at $65 is a bit out of my price range since I'd like to purchase a handful of drives.
Does anyone know of any other smaller flash drives with SSD-level performance?
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The next generation of VR headsets will connect over a single USB-C cable
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NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, AMD, and Microsoft form VirtualLink Consortium and introduce an open industry standard for connecting next-generation VR headsets
8 votes