External Hard Disk: No External Power - To be used as a storage device for media player

[Sushubh]

Have to gift it to a friend. He is looking for a 2TB drive though not sure if these devices can operate without external power. I understand that hard disks are unreliable piece of junk. So any model from any company can fail in a matter of days if not hours. Just want some options to consider if anyone knows about these things!

 

[Sushubh]

I meant Blu-ray would probably need ac local network.