Edmund Craske wrote:
On 20/08/2010 01:59, Jason Davies wrote:
Hi Smuggers (but, I suspect, Sam)
When I got back from holiday my Seagate external HD, a few months old,
portable USB-powered disk, had died while powered down (the mac was off).
Now another similar disk, but Western Digital, has just died on me too.
Luckly I took the suggestion here to go for a G-tech external, which I've
done, so this loss (of a clone of the HD) is not mission-critical, but it
has me nervous. Can USB hubs 'spike' and kill disks?
The hub is very hard to get to to identify;-) It's a Belkin 7-port, which
has two on top and five along the back.
Or is it likely it's coincidence?
It does all depend on the way that the drives have died... I guess it's
possible that there was a power surge or something that's damaged the
electronics... But if it was mechanical failure (obviously the most common
way for drives to die) then it's pretty hard to point the finger at a USB
hub unless it grew legs and started kicking your drives :P
Ed
yes, I think it must just be coincidence. Slighly expensive coincidence!
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