Originally Posted by tom911
Is anyone using an external hard drive with TIVO to go and their laptop? I was just looking at a Maxtor external drive with 80gig for $100 (haven't really price shopped, so this is just a starting point). Rather than purchase a new laptop, could I just as easily store programs on that and bring it along? Looks small enough to just toss in the carry on bag. I only have 12gig free on my laptop, and this looks like a good workaround instead of buying a new laptop with a bigger hard drive. I could move programs onto the laptop as space clears (or I guess I could view them directly from the external hard drive if I'm parked in a hotel for the night). Is this workable?
No reason it shouldn't work. I thought a lot of those external drives required some kind of AC adapter to operate, though, so you'd need to be at an outlet. I don't own one though, so I could be mistaken...
If it's a Firewire drive, it could draw power from the bus with a powered Firewire card (they've got a +12V pin, USB only has +5V).
nevermind, looks like ScottC beat me to it...2.5" drives can be bus-powered. I'm pretty sure a 3.5" drive needs a +12V pin, though.