Gonna be a whole lot less pain if it IS the enclosure though.
If it's the drive, his backups are hosed. Better if it's the
enclosure & he can recover the data.
On 7/2/2017 15:01, Godfrey DiGiorgi 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).
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