Allen Brown wrote:
Allen,
Is this a generic USB sled or is this a prepackaged USB HDD? I've
found a few USB sleds that are useless and have seen the same thing you
reported: Hard locks after a few gigs of transfer. Others are bullet
proof. In fact I do 80gb of backup, in a single copy, every week to one
with ZERO problems. Been going strong now for months. I've also got a
couple of Western Digital USB drives that I use for storing VMWare
images on that I copy back and forth to my laptop with no issues. The
new Seagate drives are crap. They tend to go to 'sleep' on their own and
there seems to be no way to wake them up without restarting them. Of
course that may be fixed. The one I bought went back after I realized
the cause of my problem.
Garl
The one I experienced is a sled. I bought it long ago. ME-320
ADU235W. A web search finds this (after so many years!)
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1117
Where people are mentioning freezing. So I think you are onto something.
As for my friend's experience, I don't know the exact device he
was talking to.
Yup. Sounds very similar to what I saw. On the plus side this is the
sled I've been using successfully for a while now. As a bonus it's got
eSATA if speed is really an issue (like during a big recover).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145167
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