Today I'm using a net book (228 bucks) and an external drive. Because we wanted it to not draw much power we put it on a Watt meter and the netbook runs from a low of 5 Watts to a high of 11 Watts the HDD is about the same.
Is 10 to 22 Watts acceptable?
Bob
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