So I was going to buy a USB 3.0 external hard drive to use it with my PS3. Turns out, PS3 Slims don't give out enough power to use the HDD, so I found some Y-cables online that look like this:
[t]http://www.cavalrystorage.com/products/cbusb20002/images/cbusb20002_600x350.jpg[/t]
Buying this stuff from another country is ridiculous, so I thought of asking somebody to solder it. The problem is, I mostly have no idea how these things work, so I'm not sure if I got the wiring right. Can you look at the wiring and say if it's okay?
[t]http://i.imgur.com/P9wC8B6.png[/t]
[editline]22nd June 2014[/editline]
oh, crap, usb 3.0 has more data wires
PS3 doesn't have USB 3.0, so you're better off using USB 2.0 cables for this project. They also have a lot less wires needing you to sort through as USB 3.0 has 5 extra pins and wires. Assuming you won't do anything silly with the extra 5 USB 3.0 wires, your wiring diagram is correct.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;45185368]PS3 doesn't have USB 3.0, so you're better off using USB 2.0 cables for this project. They also have a lot less wires needing you to sort through as USB 3.0 has 5 extra pins and wires. Assuming you won't do anything silly with the extra 5 USB 3.0 wires, your wiring diagram is correct.[/QUOTE]
The problem is that the cable that goes with the HDD is USB 3.0, so I'll probably have to deal with the extra wires.
Thanks a lot, I'm really grateful (I rated you "funny" by mistake, though)
USB 3.0 is backwards compatible. If you get a micro-USB plug and plug it into your hard drive and nothing into the USB 3.0 part, it will still work fine.
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