Oops, turns out the Raspberry Pi's USB ports can't supply enough power to power two hard drives at once.

Ask me how I know...

That was a bloody distressing sound my hard drive started making.

So I guess I'll either have to plug one or more drives into an external AC adapter or power on an actual desktop PC to copy files between these two drives. It seems my 3A (I think) AC adapter just can't handle these both at once. Which... you know, that's totally fair. I didn't think I'd ever hit the limit but here we are.

You know, it's like how the Wii U has notoriously underpowered USB ports... except the Raspberry Pi can at least power one drive. Anyway you gotta use an externally-powered drive to store your sweet pirated Wii U game collection.

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@onfy I just use a Y-cable, seems to work well for a standard 2.5" laptop hard drive

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@noiob I've heard about that working for the Wii U, but eh, I'd play it safe.

@noiob I would probably do a low-capacity desktop drive either in an adapter or just an old external. (I'm sure desktop 1TB externals aren't made by now...)

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