Hi all,
I’m thinking of getting a Vero V, looking at all my options. I think my external hard drive might draw too much power for a Vero V, even though it’s fine in a TV or anything else I’ve tried, so what is the best way of powering a external hard drive? Is it possible to use a higher power supply, or is my best option to buy a powered hub? I’ll only need this one drive, and I just don’t really know the best way of having one, without too many wires adding to it.
Thanks.
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Why not try it first, it may just work as it is. Failing that a powered hub is the way to go.
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Mibi in osmc shop there’s this product
4 Port USB 3.0 Powered Hub 
might help you out somewhat 
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The USB 2 port on the Vero V supports 500mA and the USB 3 port supports 900mA. This is standard spec for USB devices. If your external drive is designed to run from a single cable then it should fall below one of these specs. Also the Vero’s ship with a 2000mA PSU and the device itself draws less than 500mA. As such, the supplied PSU should already have plenty of headroom to support a single external drive.
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The drive should have some power specs with it. 0.9A will probably suffice. If you had multiple drives then a hub would be a must or an external power supply but if not, it is likely to be a non issue
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i’ve had issues with my WD MY Passport which theoretically just needs 0.9A.
Tried multiple file systems on it, same issues - the drive would sometimes block - I don’t know if it happened when it was going into standby mode and trying to restart again…whatever.
I since bought a powered HDD and never had any issues. So I would advise you to do the same.
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