Red Drive and Red Station CF Reader

[Kevin Roy]

Hi All, Does anyone know if the AC adapter for the Red Station CF Reader will power the Red Drive as well? I don't have the equipment in front of me to check the specs. Thanks!

Kevin

 

[Kevin Roy]

answer = no.

 

[Russell Morris]

you can also power red drives from FW800 if that is any help to you

 

[D Fuller]

you can also power red drives from FW800 if that is any help to you

You can, but you run the risk of burning the firewire port out on the drive. Especially if you daisy chain a second drive onto it to copy to. It's best to use an AC adapter.

 

[Kevin Roy]

Thanks all. I just purchased a used 640GB RedDrive for a shoot. It works when attached to the camera and when plugged into the computer with the AC the disk mounts, no problem. I did try to power it with FW800 and I only get at tick/clicking sound. Burned out port? Otherwise it functions normally transferring data through FW800.

Also, the AC power adapter is pretty common. I'm using one that I have for an OWC drive. Specs match.

 

[D Fuller]

Thanks all. I just purchased a used 640GB RedDrive for a shoot. It works when attached to the camera and when plugged into the computer with the AC the disk mounts, no problem. I did try to power it with FW800 and I only get at tick/clicking sound. Burned out port? Otherwise it functions normally transferring data through FW800.

Also, the AC power adapter is pretty common. I'm using one that I have for an OWC drive. Specs match.

If it's mounting with the AC adapter, the port's not burned out. I suspect that the clicking sound is the sound of the drives trying to operate, but not getting enough power. Remember that the Red drives contain teo fairly fast spinning drives plus a raid controller. That's a lot to power via Firewire 800 bus power. If you search ancient threads here, you'll find that Red actually recommended using FW cables that did not pass power so that there was no chance of inadvertently trying to bus-power the drive. but i don't think anybody ever had trouble as long as AC power was connected.

 

[Jimmy Gilmore]

Mine are powered with standard 12v power supplies. I have both 320 and 640s. You should be able to find something that works at a big box store or Amazon.