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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
It's mainly about quality and length of the cable; certain (but not all) external hard drives draw power from the USB port and longer/poorer quality cables will have voltage droop, which may be high enough to cause the plugged in device to not get enough power. But that wouldn't cause the cable to actually "break" though.
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The failure I referred to is:
When connecting to one 2" external disk, I hear repeated "knocking" from the disk, as if it seeks to the same spot each second or so.
When connecting to another external 2" disk, the disk is recognised, but trying to access data on it causes Windows 7 to behave erratically.