> if you want a mass storage device... buy a mass storage device?
Eh, I bought a 128GB device that is practically always with me which already has a lot of my important files on it (my phone). It can be pretty handy to just be able to plug in as a mass storage device, but tbh these days I mostly just use things like OneDrive or Google Drive for keeping files accessible on the go. But when I'm wanting to shuffle a big file around between machines that aren't networked, its a handy thing. That, and being able to poke around the actual filesystem on a full-sized computer is handy.
> I'm pretty sure a USB cable can't provide enough watts.
I've got a 65W USB cable in my backpack, it came with my laptop to charge. Its not even the most powerful USB cable I've used, my friend's thunderbolt eGPU dock can do like 100W or so. I can't imagine my phone could pull 65W for more than a few seconds without literally melting.
Eh, I bought a 128GB device that is practically always with me which already has a lot of my important files on it (my phone). It can be pretty handy to just be able to plug in as a mass storage device, but tbh these days I mostly just use things like OneDrive or Google Drive for keeping files accessible on the go. But when I'm wanting to shuffle a big file around between machines that aren't networked, its a handy thing. That, and being able to poke around the actual filesystem on a full-sized computer is handy.
> I'm pretty sure a USB cable can't provide enough watts.
I've got a 65W USB cable in my backpack, it came with my laptop to charge. Its not even the most powerful USB cable I've used, my friend's thunderbolt eGPU dock can do like 100W or so. I can't imagine my phone could pull 65W for more than a few seconds without literally melting.