All I know is it was in a laptop on my desk running 24/7 and one day I found it dead. It's less of a loss than the drive I just lost due to over voltage from a design flaw in the AMS Venus Dock laptop cooler. I had just started using a spare laptop drive in it as near-line storage to work on some data that could not fit internal laptop drive and was not backed up elsewhere.
The stupid morons at AMS choose to use a coax power connector size spec'd for >10Vdc as the dock's power connector while the dock is only 5V. Well of course with their Venus DS3 external HDD case on my desk which uses same size connector (as do all 12V external cases and I have several), I plugged in it's 12V adapter to the dock by accident & fried my spare laptop drive and I think the dock. When contacted with the "design flaw" they put it off on me even though it should have been a much smaller plug given the low voltage or at least the dock should have shunted or regulated the overage. Now I am stuck with 2 of their devices, one dead, and a dead out-of-warranty drive for about $150 lost overall not to mention my data. Still arguing with a woman who barely speaks English trying to get my $50 dock replaced, after they change the connector size or add regulation, & some compensation for replacing the lost drive. AVOID AMS LIKE THE PLAGUE THEY ARE!!!! Tim "The Beave" Lider wrote: > Chirping means the spindle motor is damaged or the Heads had landed on the > platter and have been Affixed to the media surface. I don't think Freezing > it will work. Freezing only works if there is an issue with heat and > Thermal Recalibration. > > Tim "The Beave" Lider > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:22 AM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] Dead hdd--freezer! > > hmm, I have a lappy drive that died mysteriously & > only chirps without spinning. > Will have to try this! > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz
