> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Oops! My bad. It's not an IBM. Its a WD2500 Cavaliar. >> WD2500JB-00EVA0 dated 16 Dec 2003. >> Anybody have one of those I can trade? >> -- >> Allen > > If it's WD, you might as well toss it. They were good for awhile until > they apparently started having them made with either an overseas parts, > or it was an engineering defect.
Once I get the data off it *will* be trashed. > Several years ago, I started buying Seagate instead... WD is very testy > with weather (hot & cold). My seagate external drive survived -10F to > +150F... plus survived east to west US coast drives (ie. >8,000ft to < > slightly below sea level). Including teh fact it also operated in +110% > humidity below 0F. > > I used to buy WD all the time until two dropped dead (head > misalignment). > > You can try sticking the thing in a freezer and hooking it up to try to > exact the data with keeping the drive cool. (See notes on the web > concerning this method.) > > Other then this, if it's under warranty, WD -- if you're lucky -- will > just replace it with another defective drive. Seriously. > > Remember. Unbacked-up data is lost data! > > -- > Roger > http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html > Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Much of it was backed up. Some was not. -- Allen > Fri May 18 18:15:44 PDT 2007 > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
