On Jul 8, 5:59 pm, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm with you on this Bruce, so when I got home I opened up my two
> Iomega 320 shirt drives and to my surprise if found two of them loaded
> with questionable Seagate  Momentus HDDs so if one takes a dump
> like the article says may happen more so than the Iomega drive who do
> I call?Ghost Busters?.

What is questionable about the Momentus drives?

My partner just had a Seagate 320GB Go Drive fail on her -- just
clicks when I hook it up.

So hoping  it was a problem with the USB interface and not the drive,
I opened it up and attached it to a different enclosure.   I was able
to recover all the data, but the thing wouldn't sustain a transfer
larger than about a gigabyte.  Oh, a couple of times I got lucky and
managed three or four at a time.

I'm not sure if that's the drive having problems, or the fact that I
had it hooked up to a parallel ATA enclosure through a SATA-PATA
adapter.   The parallel enclosure has been solid with parallel drives,
performing 50 - 400 GB transfers without hiccough.

Anyway, I'm curious if these drives have a poor reputation, as I
usually favor Seagate drives, but I recognize that every company makes
a turkey every so often.

Jeff Walther

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