Question on Edision OS Mini

[avalon65]

I have just bought the Edision OS Mini satellite box with twin tuners. On a youtube video, the guy said to plug in the usb stick before anything else, and plug the power lead in after everything else is connected.

Also I saw somehwhere that the swapfile was alloctae to the 8Gb usb stick. My plan was to connect a 750Gb external hard drive to the usb port for recordings, and as there is only 1 usb port can I still connect the HD instead of the USB stick.

[ccs]

Doesn't it have 2 usb ports?

And unless I'm very much mistaken, you won't need a swap file.

And make sure your usb hard drive has its own power supply.

[avalon65]

Yes it does have 2 usb ports, my mistake, as it has one on the back and 1 on the front.
The external usb 2.5inch hard drive I was going to use dosen't have an external power supply, but I do have a 3.5inch docking station which has its own PSU. I will use that for the time being then, untill I find a 2.5 inch one with a PSU.

I found this on another site:

'Specifically, some enclosures can have limits relating to the SATA/IDE controller built into the enclosure.

All 2.5 inch HDDs I've seen have roughly the same power consumption (depending on 5200 or 7200 RPM mainly). Every single one I could operate with the 2 USB cables included with the external hard drive cases. If I plug it into the back of the PC I often only needed one USB cable. Using plugs on USB hubs will often cause problems, though.

USB sockets, per specification, can output up to 500 mA.

Practically 2.5" hdds could use from 600 to 1100 mA for running up. The high power consumption for this short time is - most of the time - allowed by motherboards. When running they will need about 250 to 400 mA, so they are way into the USB specification there.'


So no need for swap file, that's ok then. Having got Linux on my laptop, I am familiar with swapfile sizes etc.