“Following tests conducted by PhoneNews.com, Toshiba has acknowledged an issue affecting their Canvio USB 3.0 hard drives,” Christopher Price reports for PhoneNews. “The issue prevents current-generation MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models from properly connecting and powering up the drives.”
“We began our tests based on tips from readers like you, and went out and purchased five (yes, five) Canvio USB 3.0 drives, along with a brand new 2011 MacBook Air,” Price reports. “Drive problems happened immediately, and were relatively isolated to the MacBook Air. Of all the systems we tested on, we were only able to reproduce issues on a Sony VAIO laptop late in our testing, as well as a current-gen MacBook Pro.”
Price reports, “Essentially, the drives failed to mount, and in most tests never even spun up on these systems… And, we were able to isolate the problem; the Canvio USB 3.0 drives draw more power than the USB standard permits.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Christopher Price” for the heads up.]
Way to diss the standard…Of course, this is Apple’s fault for not providing more than 500mA to the USB port. ;P
Switch over to fuel cell while I dive for some coffee grinds and egg shells. Be back in a minute…
I thought some Apple systems already providing at least 1A current.
The PC industry is a joke these jackasses never found a standard they couldn’t fuck up. And hey, wasn’t part of the promise of USB that custom drivers for every piece of crap in the world would be a thing of the past? Seriously, how different can a mouse be that it needs anything special for a driver?
I bought a 750GB drive for a Christmas present. I formatted it on my white MacBook and it mounted OK for me. I guess I’ll see if my son has problems with the drive on his MacBook -FWIW, YMMV, Yadda Yadda….
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