Geza (aka Wilsing)
Leftovers
I've forgotten how much 'fun' I can have messing with my computers.
So what is the probability of two external drives failing within two days of each other?
The Maxtor 750GB -which was not used for a while - I found that it fried to the extent of melting the USB cable ends.
Yesterday, I attempted to clone my iMac with Carbon Copy Clone and i knew something was not right when it took over 7 hrs to copy about 40GB (out of 1TB) onto the WD Firewire drive.
This morning the drive was not even recognized. Disassembled it and put the bare HDD into a USB3 cady and now it's doing 1GB a minute. Mind you that will steel need about 20 hrs to complete.
The moral of the story? There is none - at some point your luck will run out, just make sure you have at least two copies of everything you hold dear.
Leftovers
I've forgotten how much 'fun' I can have messing with my computers.
So what is the probability of two external drives failing within two days of each other?
The Maxtor 750GB -which was not used for a while - I found that it fried to the extent of melting the USB cable ends.
Yesterday, I attempted to clone my iMac with Carbon Copy Clone and i knew something was not right when it took over 7 hrs to copy about 40GB (out of 1TB) onto the WD Firewire drive.
This morning the drive was not even recognized. Disassembled it and put the bare HDD into a USB3 cady and now it's doing 1GB a minute. Mind you that will steel need about 20 hrs to complete.
The moral of the story? There is none - at some point your luck will run out, just make sure you have at least two copies of everything you hold dear.