It would depend on the PC and the power supply and if what sort of connector is on the board. If it only had a 20 pin ATX socket and no aditional power and it had been upgraded then it might be an issue.
I admit it can be a problem and I have seen a few machines where the USB ports did not provide enough power but it is fairly rare was computer problems go.
I usualy try and connect these hard drives to the rear USB ports to try and avoid some of these problems.
I've also had a few random power supply issues where amazingly the computer could boot up fine but the USB ports could not power anything simply because the PSU was not supplying enough ampage.
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