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Am Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 06:10:19PM -0500 schrieb Dale: |
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> That's interesting. I have two different drives, can't recall but may |
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> be the same brand. |
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The actual drive in my enclusure is a Seagate, BTW. |
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> I've tried external drives connected by USB before and hated them. Slow |
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> when they do work and buggy at that. |
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Theoretically, HDDs are not able to saturate USB 3. And from my observation, |
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I do get their maximum performance – my 2.5″ 1 TB WD delivers about 80-90 MB/s |
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read speed and said Intenso/Seagate 3.5″ gives me up to around 140 MB/s tops. |
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I used dstat to gather those numbers. |
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> I've had more drives go bad when using USB enclosures than I've ever had |
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> on IDE or (e)SATA. |
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Interesting, I can’t really confirm such a correlation from the drives I |
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have lying around. And I don’t see how USB can cause damage to a drive. |
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Except for physical impacts owing to the fact that USB drives are easily |
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moved around. |
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> I've had two drives fail after years of service that were IDE or SATA. I |
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> have three drives that are bricks and all of them were in USB enclosures |
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> and far young to die. |
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Perhaps they became too hot during operation. Enclosures don’t usually |
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account for thermals. Didn’t you mention you lived in a hot area? |
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> I paid more for eSATA external enclosures and have had no |
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> problems with drives going dead yet. All of them have far surpassed the |
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> drives in the USB enclosures. |
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Hm... bad (in the sense of cheap) USB controllers on the mobo or the |
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enclosures? Or bad USB cables? What kind of HDD death are we talking about? |
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Certainly not bad sectors, right? |
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> Bad thing is, I don't use anything Microsoft here. Can a drive's |
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> firmware be updated on Linux? |
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Well, that seagate update ISO didn’t work with USB and I think all my CDRW |
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are now serving as saucers for cups. So I downloaded the EXE and ran it on |
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my gaming Windows. It actually set up a temporary boot of a tiny linux which |
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tried the firmware update. Infortunately it didn’t detect the drive and the |
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text went by too fast. Might give it another try some other time. |
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> I think my drives are either Seagate or WD. I tend to stick with those |
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> two, unless it is a really awesome deal. |
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Yea. First the SMR fiasco became public and then there was some other PR |
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stunt they did that I can’t remember right now, and I said “I can’t buy WD |
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anymore”. But there is no real alternative these days. And CMR drives are |
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becoming ever rarer, especially in the 2.5″ realm. Except for one single |
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seagate model, there isn’t even a bare SATA drive above 2 TB available on |
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the market! Everything above that size is external USB stuff. And those |
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disks don’t come with standard SATA connectors anymore, but have the USB |
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socket soldered onto their PCB. |
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> I've never updated the firmware on a drive before. |
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Me neither. I think I updated an SSD once. |
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Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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