Unless you have removed both those discs from their enclosures and mounted them in another enclosure that you know works you cannot be sure that they are dead its worth a try if you haven't already done this On 20 Aug 2010, at 12:18, Jason Davies wrote:
> 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! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. Macfixer [email protected] 07812 990026 01273 592472 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
