On 26 Mar 2010, at 13:38, Richard Wells wrote:

> I know you are all desperate to know how my burnt out drive story ends...
> 
> I bought a drive dock for £18 and plugged the drive (made by Samsung as it 
> happens) which I had taken out of the Freecom unit into it.
> 
> Plume of smoke. Drive is dead.
> 
> The moral is, check which power cable you are plugging in to which device.


bummer. unlucky, and easy mistake. At least it wasn't the other way round and 
the laptop whoosh.

but

the moral is also

tell app "user"
begin repeat
back-up

back-up the back-up

back that up and move it off-site.

end repeat
end tell

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