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RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

BreedingtheSpawn — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:30:37 GMT

[quote][b]DZ2573 (3/10/2006)[/b][hr]Well at exactly 5:16 pm yesterday .MY external drive was officially diagnosed as "dead"

ALL my Metal MP3's are lost and wouldn't you know it my warranty was for only a year .

I bought my external in NOV of 2005 .ANd after speaking with my IT buddy at work it turns out that he was also working on another persons PC .with the same problem ..hard drive failure > But you wanna know what the really Screwed up part is??

Both the drives are MAXTORS . So I am convinced and fully aware that western digital is way moreso the better choice . So if I were you Voodoo i'd stick to Western digital. Warranty is longer and the life expectancy of the drive is far better .I am also finding out that the bigger the drive the more problems You run into (on an External that is )

I'd keep it at 100 gigs ..just to be safe. Someolder PC's don't read the bigger drives .They see them and they show the capacity of the drive .BUT if you fill the drive past a certain read point for the PC ..it will crash on u ..The data will "write over " (i believe that is the word ..bare ??) and the Hard drive will have to be reformatted .

I learned that the hard way ..LOL. when i 1st got my 200 gig MAXTOR ..which didn't last anyway...lol.

I am looking into these porty's now.MY IT guy say's they are very good.

http://www.smartdisk.com/eWeb/smartdiskus/www/staticpages/FireLitePortHDD.asp

Check em out Bare , Voodoo

and tell me what u guys think??[/quote]

I know the feeling all too well man. I ran into the same problem the other day. I turned on my computer and come to find out the hard drive had crashed, so I had to reformat it. I just checked and the drive I have on my computer is a Maxtor.

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

Mr.Smurf — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:12:49 GMT

its cheaper to buy a HD and make your own switch to USB

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

voodoo — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:27:21 GMT

The 80 gig purchased direct is $230 and only $180 at Best Buy .com. By comparison an 80 gig [url=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6924144&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat33200050002&id=1097580128653]Western Digital[/url] is $130 at Best Buy.

Based on price only I would go with the Western Digital, of course, but on the other hand I would want the most reliable. Gonna have to do some more research on this subject.

Thanks, DZ. So sorry you lost all those mp3's. :crying:

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

DZ2573 — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:10:13 GMT

Well at exactly 5:16 pm yesterday .MY external drive was officially diagnosed as "dead"

ALL my Metal MP3's are lost and wouldn't you know it my warranty was for only a year .

I learned that the hard way ..LOL. when i 1st got my 200 gig MAXTOR ..which didn't last anyway...lol.

I am looking into these porty's now.MY IT guy say's they are very good.

http://www.smartdisk.com/eWeb/smartdiskus/www/staticpages/FireLitePortHDD.asp

Check em out Bare , Voodoo

and tell me what u guys think??

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

Bare — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:01:33 GMT

[quote][b]voodoo (3/8/2006)[/b][hr]What brand/model would be a good way to go for an external drive. Maybe somewhere around 80 to 100 gig? Been think I need to have some extra space for music and pictures.[/quote]

There are lots of different brands... but what it most important is the brand of hard drive inside the device. Western Digital has always been my favorite, although Quantum have pretty good drives as well....

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

voodoo — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:51:56 GMT

What brand/model would be a good way to go for an external drive. Maybe somewhere around 80 to 100 gig? Been think I need to have some extra space for music and pictures.

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

Bare — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:27:26 GMT

When I get home tonight, I'll try and find a link to the Synch software that I use. It is a "beta" Microsoft product (which is free)... Yes, it is beta, but it has been working for me.

I should probably move this to the "computing" forum... Ok, I'm moving this topic.

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

DZ2573 — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:08:35 GMT

Dude .. thats exactly what I need !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I can't tell u how much of a pain it is copying stuff back and forth.. You lose track of albums and then forget where u put them...lol

I had copies everywhere last time i cleaned up my home pc..LOL:P

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

Bare — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:00:47 GMT

I have a 160GB external hard drive device, but I only use if for backup purposes.

I have some "Synch" software... I setup the program, to copy certain stuff to the external drive... and everytime after that, it just copies the changes over to the external drive. It is pretty sweet.

The data includes, all my multimedia files, my music & all my web development and business stuff.

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

Jeremy — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:58:44 GMT

Computers suck. It's soooo annoying when it does that.

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

voodoo — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:47:59 GMT

That is SO painful. I pray every night that my PC doesn't crash.

RE: EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

Bare — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:30:27 GMT

OMG... I feel your pain!!!

That is weird though.. those externals are so stable.. just a quick USB connection to a Windows XP system..

Weird...

EXTERNAL NIGHTMARE !!!!

DZ2573 — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:12:51 GMT

Well ...I Finally get around to saving up my pennies and getting me another Hard Drive for all my Vids and games and my ever growing collection of Mp3's . And so I get my HD installed .. hehehe .. a whopping 32o gigs ! YAY .. and my pc reads the whole drive so just to make sure I copy all my Vids ands games over .. and i keep copying till i fill the whole drive .. Which it does ..All with 3 gigs of free space. Well, then i delete what i copied and move some of my mp3's --my ROCK collection ..that's on my 2oo gig external.

AND that takes me all of 1 night .. so it finally completes the move and i shut down to Crash .Next day (sunday) I get ready to turn on my PC and ...what do i notice ... my external won't open the drives.. after numerous attempts,unplugging,reboooting and Then some ill mannered curse words .(which still did no good) I just unplugged it. Well...come MOnday morning I wake up grab my external and come to work... So my hopes of getting it to work on my work PC are soon CRUSHED ..as it just won't happen..

And after this long boring story ... i get to the MAIN concern . The remainder of stuff on this external was my METAL mp3's almost 100 gigs worth ..