Thanks, Godfrey. I have a Mercury Elite Pro Mini enclosure sitting here with a 500GB (empty) drive. I just ordered a 2TB drive for it, which is the largest that will fit. That will let me empty the broken drive and repair or replace it.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > I've had my share of enclosure failures but all of them by the low-priced > enclosures. > > The OWC "Elite Pro" enclosures run about $70-85 apiece (see MacSales.com for > details) and are very very reliable. Not one has ever failed me; between my > brother and I, we've been using them for fifteen-eighteen years. My current > ones for 3.5" drives support three hardware protocols in their latest > revisions (eSATA, FW800, and USB3). They're very fast enclosures too. USB3 > seems the most cost effective speed for the money at the present; I have two > Thunderbolt SSD drives that are faster still but they're still double the > price for the capacity, at least. > > Meanwhile, drives get full and/or flakey every few years of use. I've swapped > and upgraded drives periodically; each of my enclosures has likely hosted up > to three drives by now: no signs of failure yet. Bare drives are pretty cheap > these days for 2, 3, or 4 TB. > > G > >> On Jul 2, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: >> >> Mark C wrote: >> >>> Rick - >>> >>> Don't know Macs but my experience has been that housings are far more >>> likely to fail than the hard drive in them. You are probably planning to >>> do this anyhow - but it if you are replacing the drive it would be >>> worthwhile to check the hard drive with another housing. >> >> The symptoms Rick is describing sound more like hard drive failure >> than housing failure. But as an external housing costs about 20 bucks >> these days it's worth a try. >> >> I've been having trouble with my backup (external) hard drive for >> months now. Sometimes it wouldn't be recognized by the desktop >> computer at all — powering the drive housing on and off a couple of >> times would sort it out eventually. It seemed like a housing issue >> and, in any case, I thought housings are cheap enough to test that >> idea first. I ordered a new USB3 external housing for $22.95 a couple >> of weeks ago and it not only solved the problem but made my backups >> *much* faster (I'd been using a USB2 drive housing in a USB3 port on >> the computer). > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
