Lol John, I did the same with my iphone, accidentally knocked it off the
desk with my arm when I was hurrying to plug in my laptop before the battary
died.
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From: john
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 1:07 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] What has happened to Liam?
Wow. I yanked my passport off the desk, out of the usb port and accidentally
wacked it half way across the room while it was spinning down, and it still
works fine. Its a wd, too.
On the subject of hard disk reliability, this article might be interesting:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/
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From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 7:35 PM
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] What has happened to Liam?
Hi Dark and all,
Just thought I would point out the name of the brand is "Sea Gate" not
"See Gate" in case anyone wants to go looking for that brand of
external drive. I will personally vouch for Sea Gate drives, because I
have two of them and they have been far more reliable then Western
Digital in my experience.
As for Passport drives I have owned a couple of those, and found them
to be very problematic. They are basically a laptop drive in a plastic
housing. I've had troubles with the USB chords going bad on them and
needing to be replaced, and if you drop one it is toast. So I found
flash drives more reliable for basic backups.
On 9/1/14, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Lori.
I don't know what sort of drive you used there, but I can say i've used a
backup external drive for years.
At the moment I have a see gate one. This is a rectangular device. It just
has the one usb and a power lead, (I don't know why you would need two
usb's
or a stand). When I bought it I had to slot the part with the connectors
for
the usb and power lead onto the main box, but this wasn't a problem and
now
it is done I can pretty much forget about it. What I do is stick it in a
box
under my bed, then pull it out every three weeks or so to do a full backup
of everything, all my keys, documents, music, audiobooks etc, (not to
mention the setup files for programs).
As an alternative You can now buy what are called passport drives. These
are
indeed as you say like a very fat memory stick, they are very small
andportable, but can hold ridiculously large amounts (I bought one
recently
for my friend which had a 1 tb capacity).
The difference however is that for a passport drive with no power lead you
will be paying twice the price as you would for a standard external drive
that needs plugging in. For example for 100 quid I could buy a 5 tb
external
drive with a plug, or a 2 Tb passport drive without.
You also don't have to use E bay either, indeed I probably wouldn't get
something like that from E bay myself sinse as you said your not sure of
what your getting.
Maplins are a reasonably good national chain and unlike pc world won't try
to foist things on you, also the one near my parents are good for general
advice as well.
Hth.
All the best,
Dark.
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