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RE: [REPOST] External drive caddies.


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [REPOST] External drive caddies.
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 00:18:19 +0100
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> Before it failed completely I went out and bought a Maxtor 5000XT
drive
> (the 250GB firewire/usb jobbie) and copied all my data across to it
and
> sent the old drive off to Maxtor, sure enough they tested it and
confirmed
> it had a problem... and sent me a nice new 80gig drive... that went
into
> the enclosure and both had a quick date with eBay :-)

I have two of these and the enclosures are gash ... I can reliably get any
drive I put in the enclosures to fall over with a "Delayed Write
Failed"
error within four hours - and they'll be too hot to touch comfortably.

I stuck a temp probe into one case when it was working and the drive was at
almost 50deg C.

Whip the lid off the case though so the drive gets some air round it and
it'll work forever...

Phil



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