There are people claiming the drive only draws 500mA based on the fact that it shows up when plugged into mortal computers and claims 500mA. I think this is poo

There are people claiming the drive only draws 500mA based on the fact that it shows up when plugged into mortal computers and claims 500mA. I think this is poor reasoning. There is no way for it to legally ask for more than 500mA in the USB protocol, so it asks for all it can and then uses some secondary mechanism to decide if it can really run.