Re: cannot access external hdd
I agree jaybird.
My old drive one of them semi crashed and I was able to transfer things over.
That drive died and I almost lost everything.
I got 2 drives now and later on I got another drive to back up the other drives because both were getting full.
While my oldest elements drive is ok its starting to make some weird noise at times so eventually it will probably be dieing.
My other western digital has some bad sectors but I have managed to repair it via software I just can't use it anymore for perminant storage of stuff or well new stuff but as far as I care its still semi ok.
My new Seagate drive has everything on it.
I have a small cloud account and everything else is loaded on a few flash drives.
But yeah I almost lost everything under the sun.
Sometimes by unplugging or plugging the drive it will just work.
Getting a drive bay and installing that to your system and plugging that drive in should work.
However even i
f the logic board is dead you should be able to access the drive itself.
If the motors or storage platters are dead that's another thing entirely.
Ofcause once all these large fflash units become cheaper hard drives in general which are large magnetic disks really mechanical etc, will be a thing of the past.
I don't think bar snapping it there is any real way to destroy a flash unless ofcause you put it on a stove or in a microwave.
You can even get them nice and drowned in water they are plastic anyway.
Right now it costs as much to get 128gb than it does to get 2 tb or maybe 1tb hdd.
So right now if you want data access at a reasonable rate with the space needed I'd still choose the hard drive over flash.
The place it does come into play is your general os but at the same time you can get faster and slower drives and the quality can vary to.
One of my drives worked all morning to then decided to shove off.
I had a tech pl
ug it into another system, and the drive smoked, sparked and exploded.
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