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Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2018, 16:56:02 CET schrieb Grant Taylor: |
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> On 12/18/2018 05:21 AM, Wols Lists wrote: |
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> > I really don't trust USB and hard drives |
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> IMHO external USB drive enclosures (physical enclosure, USB to SATA / |
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> PATA / ??? adapter, (no)fan) are suboptimal at best and are most likely |
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> to work when all the components are happy. |
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> I view them as the weakest link. |
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> If I have a drive problem, I like to connect the drive to a SATA (PATA) |
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> connector and access the drive directly. I usually have better results |
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> saving data that way. |
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Yeah, that matches my experience as well. |
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Just to add a personal anecdote: I once had an external drive that I thought |
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had broken (it made the "clicks of death"), but after taking it out of its USB |
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enclosure and connecting it directly via IDE (shows how old the drive was...) |
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it actually worked and I was able to copy all data from it. Only one |
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(unimportant) directory had been corrupted. |
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I mean, I still use USB drives, as they're quite practical for some things, |
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but I'm more aware of the potential issues with them now. |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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