On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:23 AM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > I have a stack of old failed IDE hard-drives waiting to go to the crusher. > Wake County (where I live) has a collection point that takes old computer > hardware & includes secure destruction for old hard-drives. This discussion > prompted me to take a look at them. > > Sure enough, all of them are Western Digital. > > Plus, now I won't be able to rest until I've pulled out all of my older USB > drives and exercised them, just to make sure none of them has failed since I > last used them. > > I've already found that I misplaced one of the power (mains) cords. > Fortunately the cord from my D-BC50 battery charger fits.
I went on a round of that stuff about two months ago, when my partner asked if I had a small, spare drive that I could afford to give away. After emptying the cabinet and finding I had 27 hard drives (!) with capacities from 40G to 320G sitting untouched for at least two years, I plugged in each one in turn to see if it would boot up. Every single one of them did. (To keep from losing or mixing up power cords, I tag and bag them, tagging the drives they go with identically. Happily, I was sensible when buying all those drives: there are just four types of power supplies that can interchange across all the drives.) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
