Quoting John Coyle jco...@iinet.net.au:
My Maxtor also played up last month, and I too bought a WD MyBook
replacement!
Fortunately, I don't use any backup software that was mangled by the
WD software, so the
transfer of data was only painful in that about 10% of the image
files were showing bad
My experience with WD drives is not great either. But not the drives
themselves, the enclosures. Once I ditched the 2T RAID case and moved
the drives into a third party RAID case, they became completely
reliable.
I don't know what crapware comes on any drive. Any drive I buy I
immediately
So...it sounds like the problem lies within the circuit board, not the
platters. Maybe you could just replace the PCB.
http://www.onepcbsolution.com/
-p
On 7/31/2012 10:00 PM, Anthony Farr wrote:
To all who've responded, thank you for the sympathetic comments. I
guess I was correct to
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
My experience with WD drives is not great either. But not the drives
themselves, the enclosures. Once I ditched the 2T RAID case and moved
the drives into a third party RAID case, they became completely
reliable.
I don't know what crapware comes on any drive. Any drive I
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:23 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
I have a stack of old failed IDE hard-drives waiting to go to the crusher.
Wake County (where I live) has a collection point that takes old computer
hardware includes secure destruction for old hard-drives. This
, of course.
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
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, Dryers
To all who've responded, thank you for the sympathetic comments. I
guess I was correct to
believe that PDMLers
This is such a heart-warming story for me. It makes me glad knowing that
I'm not the only person on earth that computers hate.
I will never buy another Western digital hard-drive, and especially
never another MyBook.
Several years ago, I bought a couple of MyBook drives (340GB 500GB)
Ditto on Macintosh computers.
Using one gig out of the box as a backup one finds out that attaching through a
powered hub creates a hard drive that won't wake up for Retrospect, which makes
for no backup. When asleep, if it doesn't wake up fast enough for Retrospect,
which reports it to the OS
Quoting John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com:
This is such a heart-warming story for me. It makes me glad knowing
that I'm not the only person on earth that computers hate.
I will never buy another Western digital hard-drive, and especially
never another MyBook.
Several years ago, I bought
on 2012-07-31 15:40 Brian Walters wrote
My experience with WD externals is similar.
i have a 1GB WD dual drive RAID unit; it's still working, but it's noisy and
RAID 0 performance rarely outweighs the potential for failure for me, so it
sits idle; it was remarkably cheap for a fast Firewire
To all who've responded, thank you for the sympathetic comments. I
guess I was correct to believe that PDMLers would find data backup to
be a topic close to their own hearts, and that a saga about it would
find interested readers.
Something that I should point out is that the failed drive wasn't
hear, hear on the crapware on a WD external drive. Had one drive with the
smart ware and some how I found a way to by pass it. Couldn't figure out how
to get it to work--but that's because the smartware back-up software was really
crapware. Hope you get stuff up and running nicely, Anthony.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:17 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
This is such a heart-warming story for me. It makes me glad knowing that I'm
not the only person on earth that computers hate.
I think you'll find many friends in that club ;) Although I managed to set up
my new wireless router yesterday
Backups, to me, originally meant CDs, then DVDs. But doubts were
raised about the permanence of optical media, and my backup load was
too large to periodically refresh everything, so I moved to hard
drives. A couple of years ago I saw a product called Clickfree
Automatic Backup, which is a small
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