If it ain't one thing its another
Sounding taps
Thursday, February 21, 2013 by Uvah | Discussion: Community
Well......I finally get my laptop all cleaned up and running good as new. So this morning before leaving my apartment I packed up all my stuff to take to Crossroads for uninterrupted online time, can't rely on the hotspot at home. Hook everything up and my external HDD died! Not working at all. This is getting ridiculous. Its only about two years old. I wouldn't mind too much but all my backups are on it plus skins I'm working on. I disconnected from the laptop, pressed the switch on the back of it like the book says to do but nothin'. Its done! Any suggestions? I could probably find the problem but I'd need a meter to do that. I seriously don't want to lose a 1 terabyte HD. Just out of curiosity does anyone have one they don't need. I could throw some bucks at ya at the end of the month.
 |
|
Page 2 of 2 | |
|
|---|
Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
- Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums and downloading skins.
- Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
- Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
- It's simple, and FREE!
|
|
Page 2 of 2 | |
|
|---|
Reply #21 Saturday, February 23, 2013 4:05 PM
I've got one of those drivebays built into my case [a Thermaltake BTW] and it's hooked up to a SATA3 port, so is pretty quick when using SATA3 drives. It was a damned good investment, this case, as I have several drives that no longer need external caddies to access their contents.
However, I have been considering something along the lines of this 5 drive SATA caddy...
As you can see, it has 5 individual SATA ports to access all drives simultaneously, but it only requires 2 power connections to fire them up. Being that I have a PC upstair and downstairs, plus Shaunna's and a guest machine, I figured such a caddy could be the way to move them between PC's as a whole rather than being carried around loose... I think they'd be easier to drop that way. I'm looking at around $180 - $190 AUD from the company whose banner is across the pics. However, that is quite reasonable, I think, given it's free shipping from Hong Kong and the same or similar product would likely cost me twice that in Australia... PLUS shipping.