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My Portable USB drives keep breaking

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    #11
    righty 'oh

    guvnor

    Milan.

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      #12
      Originally posted by eliquant View Post
      My Portable USB drives (note: not USB memory sticks) keep breaking.
      I kept having problems writing files to my USB memory stick, and it turned out to be the voltage on my USB 2 hub dipping below the required threshold. Apparently it's a well-known problem. The stick worked fine in any of the PC's built-in USB sockets.

      Problem is I don't know if one can even get 7-port USB 2 hubs with their own power supply, to hold the voltage steady, instead of leeching power from the PC, and 4-port hubs are a waste of space.

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        #13
        I've been carrying around the Lacie 500 GB external HDD for 2 years now.
        It spends every day bumping around in my van as I drive from site to site.
        Never had any problems with it and I'm so impressed, I bought another external Lacie HDD last week. I'll probably be so impressed with that, I'll end up buying the company like that Stella Rimington advert.

        WWTD ?

        (What Would Threaded Do ?)

        :-)
        Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

        C.S. Lewis

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          #14
          Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
          WWTD ?

          (What Would Threaded Do ?)

          :-)
          Threaded would devise his own data storage system based upon the Brownian motion of smoke particles emitted by dope cigarettes and goat farts.
          Last edited by bogeyman; 29 February 2008, 17:07.

          You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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            #15
            In a trial of this technology, Atw's underpants were capable of storing the state of every molecule in the planet Jupiter and its moons, in real time
            So that's was SKA is.

            A giant storage device to analyse, interpret and codify AtW's skidmarks, and explain them in the context of Life, The Universe and Everything.

            Cunning...simple cunning.

            I bet you lizards hadn't even thought of that !
            Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

            C.S. Lewis

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              #16
              Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
              So that's was SKA is.

              A giant storage device to analyse, interpret and codify AtW's skidmarks, and explain them in the context of Life, The Universe and Everything.

              Cunning...simple cunning.

              I bet you lizards hadn't even thought of that !
              God! Don't you just hate it when somebody quotes part of a post you just edited out?

              You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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                #17
                Threaded has an organic drive that grows larger by the day to store more data.

                http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-4484/13/6/307

                The above people are trying to work out how threaded did it!!!

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by eliquant View Post
                  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.
                  That's what'll happen when you're continually accessing those special .flv files...
                  ǝןqqıʍ

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by Ardesco View Post
                    Threaded has an organic drive that grows larger by the day to store more data.

                    http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-4484/13/6/307

                    The above people are trying to work out how threaded did it!!!
                    bulltulip machine

                    post more exaggerations

                    HTH
                    ǝןqqıʍ

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
                      bulltulip machine

                      post more exaggerations

                      HTH
                      http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/...s/bulltulip.jpg

                      You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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