Reply to: My Portable USB drives keep breaking

[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?

[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.

[bogeyman]

bulltulip machine

post more exaggerations

HTH

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

[bogeyman]

bulltulip machine

post more exaggerations

HTH

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

[DiscoStu]

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

[DiscoStu]

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...

[Ardesco]

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!!!

[bogeyman]

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?

[Board Game Geek]

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 !

[bogeyman]

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.

[Board Game Geek]

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 ?)

:-)

[Marina]

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.

[milanbenes]

righty 'oh

guvnor

Milan.

[bogeyman]

bogeyman, with respect, you may have more bogeys than anyone else, but you didn't read the main point of the thread.

Hi Milan,

I think there's a tape mount request on unit 587.

Get busy boy.

[bogeyman]

Sounds like you are the problem here. USB not connecting is neither here not there. Take the drive out and connect it via IDE to the main PC to see if it is the drive or the enclosure that is borked. If drive is still failing then get some rescue software on it to see what is dead. I have never had a drive so shafted you could not see something on it.

Hard drives are cheap as chips these days so how has the cost been immense?

Good advice there Ferret.

Usually it is the mechanical problems (bent pins, worn connectors, cr@p cables) that are the culprits. The standard USB connector has to be the worst designed connector ever (built to a price, not a specification).

But I have, unhappily, encountered disks so utterly sha@gged that they couldn't even spin up.