Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

2014-06-19 Thread Alex Mandel
I actually find it's often the enclosure. I have one external 2.5" that beeps and fails to mount on all but 1 usb port on my laptop. Absolutely a power issue - even though I have tried some of those dual power usb cables. It's actually why I'm partial to buying the drive and enclosure separate. Th

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

2014-06-19 Thread George Mulak
Thank you Nathan, It is also true that sometimes the enclosure electronics go bad. I just replaced the enclosure on one drive that was doing the same thing and--walah! It worked fine. George Mulak -Original Message- From: ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-us-ca

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

2014-06-19 Thread Scott DuBois
On 06/19/2014 10:37 AM, Brendan Perrine wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 23:08:47 -0700 > Mark Weisler wrote: > >> Some of the Seagate external drives seemed to have an autonomous shutdown > I have a wierd problem if you try to boot from a seagate expansion 1tb drive > that I have to work around. If

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

2014-06-19 Thread Brendan Perrine
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 23:08:47 -0700 Mark Weisler wrote: > Some of the Seagate external drives seemed to have an autonomous shutdown I have a wierd problem if you try to boot from a seagate expansion 1tb drive that I have to work around. If you try and boot and the computer is shutdown my bios on

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

2014-06-19 Thread Sidney McCoy
Didnt the report reflect that Seagate survived the least, and Hitachi were best (but too expensive), but the only reason there aren't more Western Digital drives is they were sold later. http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/