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On 26/07/21 22:00, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> Am Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 06:10:19PM -0500 schrieb Dale: |
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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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I've bought "add your own drive" USB enclosures, and ime they kill |
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drives. The big one killed a 3.5" drive dead, and the little one stunned |
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a 2.5" (as in, it no longer worked in the enclosure, I managed to revive |
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it ...) |
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I've never had any internal drives die on me (although I have rescued |
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other peoples' dead drives). |
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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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I've now bought a dual USB/SATA chassis you can hot-plug the drives |
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into. I haven't used that enough to form opinions on its reliability. |
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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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Are you talking 2.5" drives here? There are plenty of 3.5" large CMR |
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drives. But as far as I can tell there are effectively only three drive |
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manufacturers left - Seagate, WD and Toshiba. |
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The SMR stunt was a real cock-up as far as raid was concerned - they |
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moved their WD Red "ideal for raid and NAS" drives over to SMR and |
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promptly started killing raid arrays left right and centre as people |
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replaced drives ... you now need Red Pro so the advice for raid is just |
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"Avoid WD". |
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From what I can make out with Seagate, the old Barracuda line is pretty |
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much all CMR, they had just started making some of them SMR when the |
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brown stuff hit the rotating blades. So now it seems pretty clear, they |
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renamed the SMR drives BarraCuda (note the *slight* change), and they |
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still make CMR drives as FireCuda. Toshiba "I know nuttin'". |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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