expiredreptarSnax posted May 01, 2024 05:21 AM
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expiredreptarSnax posted May 01, 2024 05:21 AM
8TB Western Digital My Book Portable Hard Drive (Certified Refurbished) $100 + Free Shipping
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I've had a few of the USB Powered ones die on me, but never the larger ones. Just purchased one of these as I missed the 16TB sale a few weeks ago, hoping for the best with the refurb!
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The enclosures, SATA -> USB controller, or something else in these (portable and desktop) fail with frightening frequency.
If you have anything vaguely valuable on that drive, it might be worth it to get a $7 enclosure and see if you can just swap it over.
I've done that with… oh man… 30(?) Seagate and WD drives for people over the years.
It might be encrypted, though, which would. Require you sacrifice an enclosure/drive to get the data back.
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Drives don't fail simply due to heat.
Every drive should be evaluated against its design spec to see if it's "too hot".
Hard drives only fail for heat-related reasons due to being unevenly cooled, not improperly cooled to some arbitrary temperature number that is "safe."
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