Re: failing usb drive

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 13:00, Andrew Henry wrote: -- If this is important data, don't risk it! Go buy another external drive (and save some coin by getting a generic enclosure and OEM disk from Newegg). Then after moving the data to t

Re: failing usb drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 13:00, Andrew Henry wrote: > I have a WD Mybook 320GB usb/firewire drive which is about 1 yr old. > Warranty is 2 years I think. It is fully encrypted with dmcrypt & > Luks. I power it up once a day and it stays on for about 12 hours (as

failing usb drive

I have a WD Mybook 320GB usb/firewire drive which is about 1 yr old. Warranty is 2 years I think. It is fully encrypted with dmcrypt & Luks. I power it up once a day and it stays on for about 12 hours (as a home server) and the manual recommends *not* turning it on more than once a day. Now it