Your post motivated me to play around with my archives and I made a
startling discovery - my main USB drive is not working properly. I works
fine for about 10 - 15 minutes after I turn it on, but after that if
gets flaky and then disappears as an active drive. I don't know when it
went wonky - the last major update I did was in early August. At that
time it would have been active for far more than 10 minutes or so, but
as recently as a few days ago I was powering it up, grabbing a file, and
then powering it down...
Thankfully I have another drive that is a replica as of the last major
backup. There is also a clone at a local data center through a local IT
support company. But right now, this drive is crap - it will work for 10
to 15 minutes and then powers down and won't show up again till it has
been powered off for a while. I'll be taking it to my local repair shop
(also the data host for remote backup) to see if the problem is the
drive or the housing. It is a 3TB WD myBook drive and the housing may
be proprietary - don't know if they can find a generic housing to pop
it into. I hope that the worst case scenario is that the drive becomes a
local SATA drive in my PC -thoug I guess the really worse case scenario
is that the drive itself - and not the housing - is failing.
Sheesh!
Mark C.
On 11/4/2011 3:50 AM, David Mann wrote:
I keep all of my photo files on a USB hard drive, and every-so-often I think "I
really must get around to setting up some kind of backup." But it's a lot of data
and I kept putting it off.
Yesterday the drive started making horrible clicking noises while performing a
Time Machine backup. I stopped the backup and shut the drive down. It was
working, but slowly, and I didn't want to push my luck.
As poor timing would have it, a significant chunk of the world's hard drive
manufacturing capacity is currently under water so prices have recently shot
up. I was lucky to find a retailer who not only had stock at a reasonable
price, they actually had a discount! So a brand new 2Tb drive is on my desk.
Luckily I was able to lift all of my data off. I started with my "K10D" folder as that's
the most important one (I still have a copy of my "Scanned Slides" folder on another old
hdd).
So now I'm back to thinking "perhaps I should set up some better backups." I
might pop back down to the shop and get a second drive in the weekend...
Cheers,
Dave
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