I wouldn't send the drive off. I'd copy it off to a new one. Then I'd just reformat the bad drive and send it off. I think drives larger than 1 TB are prone to problems. But I'm not an IT guy. Others here can answer more knowledgeably.
Best, Paul On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Mark C wrote: > I recently commented that one of my 3TB external drives went bad - apparently > it is the housing only, since the drive will run fine for about 10 minutes > and the just disappear from the computer. After it is unplugged and off for a > while, it works fine again (for another 10 minutes or so.) I have two backups > of the drive - one is a few months old and is offsite, the other is a local > copy. WHen I realized the my other 3TB drive had the *only* copy of several > hundred images I got worried and bought another drive. It took almost 2 days > via USB 2 but I now have two local copies again.... > > OK - the paranoia part: Turns out that the drive that has crapped out is > under warranty still. Yea! So I have to send it into Western Digital. I can't > wipe the drive (it would take a lot longer than 10 minutes to wipe a 3TB > drive) and I am hesitating about sending off a functional drive (albeit in a > bad enclosure) with virtually every photo I have taken in the last 10 years > on it (all 122,000 of them). We have everyting from 35mm film scans, MF > scans, and every image form a digital camera since my first 3.3mp Coolpix. > All my snowflakes, all the stuff that is in my book, full layouts of all the > cards I used to make for art fairs (front and back), all sorts of stuff. > There is nothing embarrassing or compromising on the drive - aside from the > fact that 90+% of the photos absolutely suck - but I balk at just blithely > sending off all these images to who knows where... Am I being unduly > paranoid? (As opposed to duly paranoid...) > > Maybe I should just shell out a few bucks for a new enclosure or see if I can > salvage the drive and put in my PC.... > > Any thoughts? > > Mark > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
