Mark C wrote: >Rick - > >Don't know Macs but my experience has been that housings are far more >likely to fail than the hard drive in them. You are probably planning to >do this anyhow - but it if you are replacing the drive it would be >worthwhile to check the hard drive with another housing.
The symptoms Rick is describing sound more like hard drive failure than housing failure. But as an external housing costs about 20 bucks these days it's worth a try. I've been having trouble with my backup (external) hard drive for months now. Sometimes it wouldn't be recognized by the desktop computer at all powering the drive housing on and off a couple of times would sort it out eventually. It seemed like a housing issue and, in any case, I thought housings are cheap enough to test that idea first. I ordered a new USB3 external housing for $22.95 a couple of weeks ago and it not only solved the problem but made my backups *much* faster (I'd been using a USB2 drive housing in a USB3 port on the computer). -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
