"One or two reported burnt USB ports does not a trend make... "

Look, there can be quite a few reasons why someone's particular USB port died on them. They are going to blame that on whatever device they had plugged in at the time. Whether or not that particular device had anything at all to do with causing the port failure can only be conjecture. For all we know, they might have simply broken solder connections between circuit board and socket by plugging and unplugging rather hard. --A much more likely scenario BTW.

I'm not overly concerned about the issue. If the drive works with only the one plug, that's fine with me. I haven't lost any ports here, and that's on at least three different machines, two laptops and one desktop.


Having both connected will NOT change the speed of data transfer. That's because the second plug, with the thinner wire connecting it to the main plug, carries only the power connects and no data lines, which are on the main plug.

As the directions that come with the drive say, if the one plug will run the drive on your machine, then you can use the one plug. Fearmongering and the Internet being what it is.


--Mac

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