Sorry inadvertently made a duplicate suggestion.

Edited by longedge (Wed 17-Feb-16 23:38:53)

As I suggested in my first post on this thread.

Suggest you find your perfect drive and add this (or a similar product - have not researched this specific make/model):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adafruit-USB-Cable-with-Swit...

Thanks! - looks good ...hadn't seen one of those before

In reply to a post by camieabz:

Suggest you find your perfect drive and add this (or a similar product - have not researched this specific make/model):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adafruit-USB-Cable-with-Swit...

One problem with this, one major problem to be exact, Data lines are not connected, so no data will go through the connection, no good for hard drive.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

Whjy do you need one with on/off button? Self powered are so much more convenient and you can get sizes of 4TB in that form too. Simply unplug from USB port to "switch off".

Not sure if I would trust a 4TB self powered drive, i am pretty sure that 4TB 2.5 inch drives are stikll not available, whihc means the unit have to have 2x2TB drives in, a lot of USB ports would have problems powering 2 drives, unless the drive have two usb plugs coming off them.