On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18:57AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:51:07 -0700 > Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > > > I've had two passports for about 3 and 5 years now. The third and newest, > > the only SATA, died from a ridiculously small drop, maybe three feet onto > > carpet. > > While on or off? >
Off. I remember the moment of realization and watching it drop. It hit squarely on the corner. Seems like that was the real death knell, rather than a displaced or glancing impact pattern, maybe a speared-headed impact pattern. It doesn't spin. On cannibalization I noted that it had decent shock absorption built in. So the electronics is now my incidental USB hookup for SATAs. I'll be buying enclosures separately in the future. I like WD but a seller on eBay is telling me that Hitachi has the best powering/performance economy, a big consideration when hooking up a USB drive to a laptop when power is scarce. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
