They had a linked website at one time, but I was wrong, apparently
Western Digital and Seagate are the two biggest manufactures and they've
been buying everyone else. I think it was just a joint software venture.
On 11/7/2011 3:36 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: "P. J. Alling"
I think if you c
From: "P. J. Alling"
I think if you check, that Seagate bought Western Digital some time ago.
How long ago? The two MyBooks that I have that suck are from around 2008
& 2009.
Seagate may own them now, but nothing I have seen or heard since I
bought those two MyBooks makes me want to give W
Seagate also bought Maxtor awhile back.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
- Original Message -
From: "P. J. Alling"
Subject: Re: Backups: near miss
I think if you check, that Seagate bought Western Digital some time ago.
On 11/6/2011 1:2
I think if you check, that Seagate bought Western Digital some time ago.
On 11/6/2011 1:25 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: "Brian Walters"
I had a similar experience a couple of months ago. My second backup
drive died without warning, not long after my first backup drive started
acting strangely
From: "Brian Walters"
I had a similar experience a couple of months ago. My second backup
drive died without warning, not long after my first backup drive started
acting strangely. The latter is also a MyBook, but an older one of
500MB, and the problem was slightly different to yours - it wasn'
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:50 AM, David Mann wrote:
>
> So now I'm back to thinking "perhaps I should set up some better backups." I
> might pop back down to the shop and get a second drive in the weekend...
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
I have four external drives now.:-) and still sweat at night.
Dave
>
I had a 500gb mydisk that went bad and the cost of a replacement
enclosure was pretty low - like $25 plus labor IIRC.
My only concern with the 3TB drive is that I don't know if the hardward
in the enclosure does some sort of sector mapping that will result in
the data being lost if it is put i
On Nov 6, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
> Investigation of the second backup drive suggests that the disk
> controller is the problem and not the hard disk itself but I haven't got
> around to buying a new enclosure. I should do that...
Yes you should... I popped down to Dick Smith and
I had a similar experience a couple of months ago. My second backup
drive died without warning, not long after my first backup drive started
acting strangely. The latter is also a MyBook, but an older one of
500MB, and the problem was slightly different to yours - it wasn't
recognised by the oper
Your post motivated me to play around with my archives and I made a
startling discovery - my main USB drive is not working properly. I works
fine for about 10 - 15 minutes after I turn it on, but after that if
gets flaky and then disappears as an active drive. I don't know when it
went wonky -
I keep all of my photo files on a USB hard drive, and every-so-often I think "I
really must get around to setting up some kind of backup." But it's a lot of
data and I kept putting it off.
Yesterday the drive started making horrible clicking noises while performing a
Time Machine backup. I st
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