Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

[Dale]

Wols Lists wrote:
> On 17/12/18 19:32, Jack wrote:
>> ddrescue has now been running for almost 22 hours, and it's been 47
>> seconds less than that since its last successful read.
> Doesn't sound good. Just to throw my tuppence-worth of bad news into the
> mix, are your drives in USB enclosures? I really don't trust USB and
> hard drives, I'd guess maybe 80% of my drive failures have been that
> combination :-(
>
> I've currently got two drives, in USB caddies, that I want to try and
> salvage, and at some point soon I'll be buying an external eSATA adaptor
> - that does NOT enclose the drives to give free airflow.
>
> The other thing is, if you're having trouble reading the drive, could it
> be the USB bus that's playing up? Again, I'm very wary of large amounts
> of data over USB, it just doesn't seem to work for me.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>


I have hit and miss issues with USB at times as well. I ordered a sata
external enclosure that has a fan for cooling as well.  Some external
enclosures have both sata and USB ports.  That way you can use sata when
possible. 

I ordered three USB enclosures and only one works well.  The others
either don't work at all or are very slow. 

I might add, I've read where people who make their own external drives,
buy the drive and enclosure separately then assemble it themselves, put
the drive into their computer to format with a file system and then put
it in the enclosure for normal use.  Some think it formats better hooked
directly to a sata port inside the puter than it does over USB.  I'm not
so sure myself.  In my experience, if it works well, it works well all
the way around. 

May buy me a card that has both internal and external ports later on. 
Sale maybe??

Dale

:-)  :-)