Hi Philippe
Although I have never used a Seagate drive, I tend to avoid them.
Because in the past I have periodically read and heard bad things about their
reliability and customer support.
I have mainly used WD or Toshiba in the past (without any issues).
More recently have been using a
Hi Peter H & Peter C
The idea of the rice grains is something we should all remember well for such
an occasion. We were holidaying overseas and my son-in-law accidentally went
into the swimming pool with his iPhone on him!! He immediately dried the phone
and then we put it in a jar and
What a great story Peter.
Perhaps worthy of a Readers Digest entry !
> On 13 Mar 2020, at 8:51 am, Peter Crisp wrote:
>
> Thanks Peter and yes, and I have had similar experiences with garage remote
> controllers, a number of times (doh!) - my wife immediately submerges it in
> an empty bowl
Hi Jewels and Daniel,
Many thanks for the information you both have provided.
Yes Daniel, I understand that the brand is a subjective choice. However, you
have in your lengthy exposé given me an explanation of what I may have
encountered - the back-up drive is being accessed more often than
Thanks Peter and yes, and I have had similar experiences with garage
remote controllers, a number of times (doh!) - my wife immediately
submerges it in an empty bowl and covers it completely with dry rice
grains. The hygroscopic nature of the rice will provide a drying
effect to the contents of
I thought the following story might offer hope to those had a s similar
experience, or are about to…
A couple of years ago I saw, in the Booragoon Apple Store, what looked a great
idea: a 64Gb SanDisk Connect USB drive. The label on the box calls it a
“Wireless Stick”, so called because it has
Hi Philippe
Unfortunately, there’s no “definitive” answer on this.
Everyone will have a different story or opinion on brands of drives and their
experiences. For myself, I run probably around a total of 20 Western Digital
drives in various forms - some in an NAS (using western digital red NAS
Hi Philippe
Not really sure if this is relevant to your problem. I purchased a 3TB time
capsule for my iMac a few years ago, but could never get it going and thought
it was in conflict with my other time capsule which backs up my old MacPro. A
tech had a look at it yesterday and said the
Dear WAMUG’ers,
I use an external disc drive to which I get Time Machine to save its backups. I
have however had troubles with different drives to mount on the desktop, and
thus TM being unable to do its backups. Running Disk Utility to ‘Repair’ the
disc, it reported unable to repair. I tried
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