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My big external hard drive, the 500GB one, is failing. It keeps flickering on and off and making sad noises. We've checked all the cables (David got out his voltmeter and did it properly) and then, as he builds SPACE SHIPS, for heaven's sake, I made him take it apart and peek inside.
When that didn't work, I resorted to the oldie of shoving it in the freezer overnight and managed to get enough juice to move a few files over to the already crammed smaller 250 GB drive.
This drive had about 20 seasons of stuff on it :;sigh:; We'll have to buy a new one and hope that we can transfer some stuff, but it's already making wheezy noises and slowing right down as it heats up again.
Our older one, an Acom, is fine; this one's IvoMagic and as it's barely 2 years old, I'm not happy that it's broken. Money is an object so we can't splash out on a 1TB one ::drools:: but $100 or so should get us another 500GB one, I guess.
Anyone got recs for reliable ones?
When that didn't work, I resorted to the oldie of shoving it in the freezer overnight and managed to get enough juice to move a few files over to the already crammed smaller 250 GB drive.
This drive had about 20 seasons of stuff on it :;sigh:; We'll have to buy a new one and hope that we can transfer some stuff, but it's already making wheezy noises and slowing right down as it heats up again.
Our older one, an Acom, is fine; this one's IvoMagic and as it's barely 2 years old, I'm not happy that it's broken. Money is an object so we can't splash out on a 1TB one ::drools:: but $100 or so should get us another 500GB one, I guess.
Anyone got recs for reliable ones?