My Portable USB drives keep breaking

[bogeyman]

bulltulip machine

post more exaggerations

HTH

http://web.syr.edu/~rtharper/bulltulip.jpg

[eliquant]

Well I bought an Iomega 160 Gig and a 160 Gig Western Digital portable USB drive and I'll see if they break in less than 2 months like the others did.

(I am gentle with them).

The Seagate ones just bloody stopped working and flashed on and off ! totall bollox !

Thanks for the advice may try a Lacie USB portable drive if these 2 fail on me.

[Nina]

My Portable USB drives (note: not USB memory sticks) keep breaking.


I've gone through about 4 in the last 14 months.

All my Freecom portable USB drives ... the USB connector snapped off the solder at the drive end.

My 2 x Seagate USB Drives just suddenly started flashing and the USB on any machine could not detect them.

Data has been lost (not a big deal) but the cost has been immense.

Thankfully the Seagates have warranty for a few years.

Have you thought about buying replacement caddies?