I actually have no idea. I just grabbed the one that looked the biggest, most robust. Seems everything I buy has a mini usb to usb cable. Once it works I don't mess with it.

Maybe an issue someone might want to tackle with a meter. And then the unknowns of which usb plug on the computer is 'better'. I'll take the one off the drive and try my blackberry on the Acer. It only has 2 ports and works fine with the harddrive but the blackberry says not sufficient power to charge, so it needs the most juice, or more than the external hard drive.

Weird thing is it might just be me but I've a silver 12v cigarette lighter to 120v converter in the car, and plugging my blackberry charger into that seems to work twice as fast as plugging the same thing into the wall. Maybe I should put the meter on that....


John Conley
Musica est vita