[Novalug] External harddrive units.

Michael Hans mhans@oqtol.com
Sat Mar 7 19:49:54 EST 2009


I travel with my WD Sata "My Book" daily, and frankly bang it up regularly
(travels in my laptop case). It's still working a year later, guess it's a
throw up :)



On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 07 March 2009 4:57:24 pm Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> > I have been using a WD "My Book" for years with no problems. It is not
> > powered from a USB port - has its own brick. No fan but lotsa vents on
> > three sides.
>
> That's exactly the sort I had die after 6 months.  It's not like I carried
> around and knocked it about or anything.  I set it up as a backup drive for
> my
> cousin's company.  It sat on a desk with the cables all taped down so it
> wasn't going anywhere, and it was plugged into a MacBook Pro with a daily
> cron
> job for backups.  6 months later, she calls asking why it doesn't show upon
> the desktop anymore.
>
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> Mackenzie Morgan
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