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| 12-01-13 05:24am - 4039 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Denner (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,217 Registered: Mar 03, '07 Location: Denmark |
Externals down Two out of five external hard drives down, arrrgh! And both down are Iomega. The first started to make funny noises a month ago - made a fast backup on another HD - og cut that first Iomega loose..goodbye. Then a couple of days ago another 1TB Iomega made a mess on the pc - and then went dead - did not get to make backup of some great stash...... Iomega - never again  "I don't drink anymore - I freeze it, and eat it like a popcicle" | |
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| 12-01-13 06:03am - 4039 days | #2 | |
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jberryl69 (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,000 Registered: Nov 27, '10 Location: neverland |
 to Iomega If it ain't grits, it must be a Yankee.If you're going to lay her head over the pool table and fuck her throat, get your fucking hand off her throat! | |
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| 12-01-13 08:01am - 4039 days | #3 | |
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rearadmiral (0)
Active User Posts: 1,453 Registered: Jul 16, '07 Location: NB/Canada |
Ouch! That is really bad news. I have mostly WD externals and a couple of Seagates and I've never had a failure. I'm pretty anal about backing things up on larger AC powered externals to minimize the risk of loss. I can imagine how frustrated you feel right now. | |
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| 12-01-13 08:16am - 4039 days | #4 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Oh no! It's the porn connoisseur's bête noire! The dead external drive! Ahhhhh!! A day doesn't go by that I've not seen the dark shadow of the dead drive looming over my digital dirty books with an almost Bergman-like sense of melancholy. (I've been using Western Digital drives, and they are actually shaped like books. Very clever, that!) Denner, we share your frustration and feel your pain. Months to years spent collecting. Then just in just moments ... POOF! It is the worst! I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. Edited on Dec 01, 2013, 08:20am | |
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| 12-01-13 08:34am - 4039 days | #5 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Hey, Denner, check this out. A YouTube video of an Iomega drive that wouldn't show on the desktop because a piece of tape inside the case had broken and disconnected the drive from its circuit board. The dude shows how to fix it. Don't know if your drive has the tape problem, but thought I'd pass it along. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. Edited on Dec 01, 2013, 08:37am | |
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| 12-01-13 09:58am - 4039 days | #6 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
Sorry about your loss of stash  Try Toshiba. I have had 4 of them, one being 6 years plus old. All are ticking along fine.  Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 12-01-13 02:06pm - 4038 days | #7 | |
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biker (0)
Active User  Posts: 632 Registered: May 03, '08 Location: milwaukee, wi |
Denner, sorry for your loss. Years ago I lost some material when I backed-up on DVDs that proved of poor quality. A lot of that material was old and no longer available because the sites have closed down. Thank you for the warning about Iomega drives and the others for letting us know what drives have proved their worth. Warning Will Robinson | |
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| 12-01-13 04:07pm - 4038 days | #8 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Sorry to hear about the loss, Denner.  A word of caution about buying advice: a lot of hard disk drive experience is just that, personal experience and highly anecdotal. The problem is that the vast majority of drives bought by consumers are meant for consumers and the manufacturers usually source from numerous disk factories (frequently separate from where the final product is assembled) with varying degrees of quality control. Add to this the fact there could be a "bad batch" that affects more than one brand and it isn't always so easy to pin down a bad make or model. And not to pile on the told-you-so bandwagon, but how many of us buy hard drives on sale, or never bother to back up the data we really want to keep? I know I'm certainly guilty. Hell, I'm a repeat offender and will probably continue to do it!  My advice is try to buy a drive roughly to spec of what you need/prefer: size, RPM speed (though in many cases this particular info is close to impossible to find, a good sign of a cheap drive meant for casual use), connection types, etc. Then try to find where the exact model you want is sold cheapest. No reason to pay more for the same item. Finally, backup and then triplicate the stuff you really can't live without. I have a few sites and folders that I've backed up across multiple drives just to be safe. It's those scenes that, as a recent poll asked, I keep going back to over and over again. Though I need to do it for a bit more of my collection, there's is stuff I simply don't want to be bothered to collect or sign up for again, no matter how perpetual we're to believe the Internet is. Save the really good stuff for multiple backups so you can live long and  .  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 12-01-13 10:15pm - 4038 days | #9 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
I too share the concern of your loss, my friend. That much waste would bury into anybody' craw. I wish I was more technically inclined wherein I could help. All my externals are disconnected. Being paranoid that I am about hackers and theft of data...... its the only way I can deal with it. If I wanna get into it, I just plug in the tips and pull'em out when I've got what I need. Anyway ... good luck Wanna thank you for the kind words of support that you posted in my recent thread. It bought back pleasant memories when you were active. You are sorely missed, Sir. hoping maybe in another time and place ....... | |
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| 12-02-13 04:18am - 4038 days | #10 | |
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Denner (0)
Active User Posts: 1,217 Registered: Mar 03, '07 Location: Denmark |
Iomega and then again not. Took it apart like in the video Drooler placed - and yes, there is the same tape - but mine is not broken.. But took a look at the drive - and it says Seagate. And BTW: Thanks to all for response. "I don't drink anymore - I freeze it, and eat it like a popcicle" | |
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| 12-02-13 04:25pm - 4037 days | #11 | |
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Reveen (0)
Active User Posts: 96 Registered: Apr 06, '09 |
The reason for that is that there is basically 2 manufacturers left in the HDD business, Seagate and Western Digital. They bought out the HDD manufacturing business of most of their competitors. All the other so-called manufacturers buy hard disks from WD or Seagate, put their own enclosures around them, some proprietary back-up software on the disk and stamp it with their own logo. Unless you're getting a knocking sound from the drive (which indicates a problem with the read/write heads touching the disk) then the problem is usually solvable by taking the disk out of the enclosure and putting it in a different enclosure or slapping it into a spare bay in a pc. @graymane - If you don't mind me saying, I think you're being overly cautious about data theft and hacking. Starting and stopping external drives in the manner you seem to be describing isn't going to do much for their health and is probably a more likely cause for data loss than hacking would be. | |
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| 12-02-13 04:47pm - 4037 days | #12 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
I don't suppose that hard drives might eventually go "generic." You know, "store brand," as it were, but really the same stuff you pay more for 'cause Count Tiger-Crunch is on the package. Well, that's  My bad. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 12-02-13 07:47pm - 4037 days | #13 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Drooler, they already have begun to do so, at least partially. For example, Western Digital sells basically the same portable Passport drive but with some bullshit "feature" like "For Mac" meaning it's preformatted in Mac OS Journaled--which you could do with one of their lowly non-Mac portable drives for free. Basically the difference you pay (since they're priced differently in many retailers) is in color and a "For Mac" under the Passport model name. This reminds me of one extra, crucial piece of advice: the first thing you should do with any drive, after of taking it out of its packaging, is reformatting. The crapware that these drives come with is almost always mentioned negatively in reviews, even though physically speaking the drive is functional. Surprise, surprise: the manufacturers' asinine sign-me-up-for-shit-I-don't-need software causes more headaches than it could ever hope to prevent. You're buying drives for storage, not Kafkaesque digital nightmares.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 12-02-13 07:49pm - 4037 days | #14 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I think some people take the same approach to porn, and occasionally sex. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 12-02-13 09:05pm - 4037 days | #15 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
Steal my thunder, eh, Turbo. Smart move! Heads-up,  | |
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| 12-02-13 09:07pm - 4037 days | #16 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
OK now, terbo, leave "heads-up" alone. Edited on Dec 02, 2013, 09:13pm | |
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| 12-03-13 03:00pm - 4036 days | #17 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
That's good advice, and I follow it, too. And, speaking of crapware, does anyone remember the '90's externals with their "bundles" of out-of-date crashware? I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 12-05-13 09:34am - 4035 days | #18 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
 "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 12-08-13 06:39pm - 4031 days | #19 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
Sorry for your loss Denner, Though the data ribbon is not broken in the drive, there still might be something else in the enclosure that is defective, you can usually get a cheap enclosure at Fry's or Newegg or something for like $10, may be worth a shot, if it doesn't work you can always return it. I had a WD Passport I thought was dead, but it was just the enclosure itself, the drive was fine. Does the drive show up in Disk Management (go to Start and type Disk Management in the search window), are LEDs (if any) on when the drive is plugged in? If it shows up there, but doesn't work, you can run error checking on it. Unfortunately HDDs have moving parts, so they die, in my experience no brand is really all that much better than any other, although recently I have decided to buy lower RPM drives as they generate less heat, and I hope that means they will last longer. Good luck. Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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