From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
Thanks for the feedback, Godders.
The disk (a Western Digital 'My Book')...
Say no more. I've had one of my own and three clients' WD "My Book"
enclosures go bad all of a sudden. Mine was a 2T WD MyBook RAID
enclosure. I pulled the two 1T drives out, put them into quality
enclosures (Other World Computing Mercury Elite Pro quad interface)
after the WD enclosure died and have been running them for the past
three years this way. Same for the clients' MyBooks.
The drives are likely all right, it's the enclosure that sucks. Almost
like Sigma lenses ... ]'-)
I still have one of those MyBook RAIDs running. It's occasionally
flakey. One of these days I'll get a Mercury Elite Pro RAID enclosure,
move the drives over, and reformat, reload them from the other archive
drive. Meanwhile, there's no risk of data loss as the enclosure is the
second archive backup, not used for day-to-day work and mirrored from
the first archive backup.
It may not be the enclosures. I think the power transformer is the more
likely culprit. The ones WD includes with the MyBook are crap.
There was an old joke going around when I was younger about American
automobile manufacturers ...
Q: Why does GM put a $2.00 jack in a $3,000 car?
A: Because they ran out of $1.00 jacks.
Fits WD MyBook wall warts to a T.
$3,000 car? I did say it was an *OLD* joke. You can substitute whichever
manufacturer you love to hate for "GM"; doesn't even have to be an
American company.
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