Yeah, I have a 1.5tb mybook external that is 3.5", so has an external power supply. I'm pretty sure the power supply fried the board on the drive as it spins up, but refuses to be recognized by the USB bridge or connected directly to SATA. It just refused to come online one day. The mechanical parts sound rather healthy so I'm fairly confident that if I can track down a matching logic board from an identical drive everything should work again. I kind of hope so. 400gb of mp3s were living on that drive as well as quite a few other massive collections of stuff that I lost the backup drive for.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:30 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > YMMV. The only hard-drives I've ever had fail in use were Western Digital. > > Especially problematic have been their "MyBook" external USB drives which > have really, REALLY piss-poor power supplies. > > On 9/4/2014 4:07 AM, Zos Xavius wrote: >> >> I forget which hosting company, but recently a very large internet >> hosting company produced statistics on their hard drive failure rates. >> This company uses cheap consumer drives so the figures were >> interesting. Topping the list on reliability was Hitachi followed by >> Western Digital. This was interesting because Hitachi was long known >> for producing some of the most unreliable drives. It seems they have >> reversed this trend. I don't know if anyone remembers their deskstar >> aka deathstar disks that all mostly died under 6 months. That was a >> long time ago, but Hitachi has come a long way. I personally prefer WD >> drives and have had better luck with them than others, but it looks >> like Hitachi is now the top dog for the moment. It is better, as has >> been mentioned, to buy the better rated drives. If you notice some WD >> drives are only warrantied for 1 year. Their better drives still have >> 5 year warranties. That should tell you something. >> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:50 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 4, 2014, at 1:06 pm, Brian Walters <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Interesting. I usually cart a laptop around when I travel, but this >>>> would reduce some weight. >>> >>> >>> I usually bring my laptop as well but now that I'm afraid to tilt the >>> screen I thought something like this could be of use. But then I figured a >>> couple of extra SD cards is all I should need for my upcoming trip, and if I >>> run out of space I'm sure I can buy more. >>> >>> Actually I wonder if I can persuade the wife to bring her laptop :) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Dave > > > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
