thanks - that would for sure void the warranty - the MyBook enclosures
don't seem to be very friendly to being opened. But I could ask the guys
at the store if they could try this.
Mark
On 11/10/2011 10:38 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
I am not sure of the general term for the gadget, but for $20-30 you can buy a
simple drive adapter like this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/U3NVSPATA/
You could then take out your HD, connect it, wipe it, then send it for repair
(if the extraction hasn't voided the warranty.)
Or verify that the drive is fine and that it is worth buying an enclosure for.
Longer term, this gadget lets you minimize the number of enclosures you need as
you can archive your off-site backup archives as bare drives and re-use the
enclosure with a newer higher capacity drive.
stan
On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Mark C wrote:
I recently commented that one of my 3TB external drives went bad - apparently
it is the housing only, since the drive will run fine for about 10 minutes and
the just disappear from the computer. After it is unplugged and off for a
while, it works fine again (for another 10 minutes or so.) I have two backups
of the drive - one is a few months old and is offsite, the other is a local
copy. WHen I realized the my other 3TB drive had the *only* copy of several
hundred images I got worried and bought another drive. It took almost 2 days
via USB 2 but I now have two local copies again....
OK - the paranoia part: Turns out that the drive that has crapped out is under
warranty still. Yea! So I have to send it into Western Digital. I can't wipe
the drive (it would take a lot longer than 10 minutes to wipe a 3TB drive) and
I am hesitating about sending off a functional drive (albeit in a bad
enclosure) with virtually every photo I have taken in the last 10 years on it
(all 122,000 of them). We have everyting from 35mm film scans, MF scans, and
every image form a digital camera since my first 3.3mp Coolpix. All my
snowflakes, all the stuff that is in my book, full layouts of all the cards I
used to make for art fairs (front and back), all sorts of stuff. There is
nothing embarrassing or compromising on the drive - aside from the fact that
90+% of the photos absolutely suck - but I balk at just blithely sending off
all these images to who knows where... Am I being unduly paranoid? (As opposed
to duly paranoid...)
Maybe I should just shell out a few bucks for a new enclosure or see if I can
salvage the drive and put in my PC....
Any thoughts?
Mark
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