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American Hard Drive Instability in China
From the USA, I have brought several external firewire hard drives that I connect to my Macbook Pro to edit in Final Cut Pro in China. On all the hard drives power bricks the input is rated 100-240V, yet whenever I turn on Final Cut Pro the program constantly crashes. I noticed that my hard drives vibrate because of the 110/220 voltage difference, so my theory is that the drives don’t work well with 220V electricity despite the specs written on the power brick. So today I bought a large transformer, Yue Ying brand, rated for 2000 watts. The input is 220V and output is 110V. I’ve connected a brand new American APC 10 outlet Back-UPS to it, and my hard drives to the battery backup plugs on the UPS. Final Cut Pro is still unstable and crashing. I’m not sure what to do at this point. The salesman connected the transformer to a digital meter and rated 110V. I’m wondering whether the hard drive should run at 120V, or possibly the 50/60Hz cycle difference is causing the issue. I do not have this issue at all in the USA, only in China. Any advice would be most appreciated!
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Alexander,
If your HDs wouldn’t be ready to handle 220V, I think they would just burn up.
I really haven’t heard before any complain like that. There are many people shifting from any to other power without problems.
Why don’t you try with a local HD or with a local computer.
Rafael
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