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In testing 7 different USB thumb drives including a Sandisk cruzer fit 4gb and 8gb I found that if the pineapple's powered by a USB port on my laptop getting a USB drive to detect is very unpredictable and usually fails. When I powered the pineapple from an AC adapter 100% of the time it recognized the USB thumb drive. I couldn't find any specs on the voltage requirements of any of the thumb drives I tested. I'm using an HP 6550B business class laptop, also tested with a Dell and had the same results although I only tested the Sandisk cruzer thumbdrives. Moral of the story --?> If using USB as swap/storage use a solid power source, USB power is inadequte (at least for my hardware).