Like cars (and lots of other machinery), you often get what you pay for... this is why we see many Volvo's with 500k+ miles, have you ever seen that on a Geo or other sub-$10k (new price) car?
No surprise. Get rid of the junk. Stop screwing around and get some decent gear :) Problem solved! ~ben On Dec 14, 2007 1:44 PM, Garl Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
