Use the drive for backups. I have several drives that have had one issue
or another, so since I don't really trust them with anything valuable
they serve as backup drives.
Kasey Smith wrote:
I wouldn't trust it with valuable data. With the enclosure you can put
about anything it if its PATA/SATA (whatever the thing has.) You could
even put a card reader in it :D
On Feb 13, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Eric Volker wrote:
For years I used an Iomega Minimax 500GB with my Mac mini. It worked
fairly well, but always made lots of noise leading one friend to
declare it defective. Since I've now sold the Mac mini, I decided to
put it to other uses. In the middle of writing several GB it just
vanished off the desktop. I picked up the Minimax and nearly burned
myself it was so hot. After cooling off it resumed working, but I
didn't trust it. Since the hard drive was in an enclosure, I couldn't
get a SMART status from it. So I disassembled the enclosure,
extracted the hard drive and popped it in my Powermac G5. It passed
the basic SMART verification, but when I ran a SMART diagnostic tool
I got a drive failing status. The failing part is that the drive had
overheated (obviously), but also that it had 10 reallocated sectors.
Here's the question: Now that it's out of the blast furnace, is the
drive safe to use? Or is it best destined for the trash bin? Also,
could I use a slower, cooler drive in the old enclosure?
Thanks,
Eric
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