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louis fusco
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p.1 #1 · is my drive dying?

i'm using an external wd mybook 320gig external, over a year old, for media storage. if i'm watching video off it for 3 hours, the video starts stalling and the spinning beach ball turns up, force quit doesn't work first time either. the drive it's self get very hot even with plenty of space around it.

should i get the info off it and dump it and get something better? my pics are on the main drive with a copy on another drive so theirs nothing major to loose.

Aug 08, 2008 at 04:17 PM

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p.1 #2 · is my drive dying?

my advise is: yes.

Aug 08, 2008 at 04:31 PM

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p.1 #3 · is my drive dying?

poo. drobo time i guess. did you try partitioning you drobo? main mirror/ media storage?

Aug 08, 2008 at 04:53 PM

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p.1 #4 · is my drive dying?

haven't found a reason to. i'm thinking about getting a second one though

Edited on Aug 08, 2008 at 06:25 PM

Aug 08, 2008 at 06:24 PM

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p.1 #5 · is my drive dying?

My WD MyBook just died a couple weeks ago.
They have poor ventilation and I'm thinking the heat did it in even though it was less than 2 years old.

I got another drive, with an external enclosure with a fan this time.

Had to rip open the MyBook to get at the drive to salvage my data as much as possible.
Not fun. I'm staying away from the MyBooks from now on.

Aug 08, 2008 at 11:26 PM

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p.1 #6 · is my drive dying?

I had a Mybook die as well. Since pretty much everything on it is a dupe, I haven't sent it in for repair - it was a couple of months out of the 1 year warranty. While I don't expect a drive to go bad at one day out of the warranty period, I think there may be something telling when only warranted for a year.

Aug 08, 2008 at 11:59 PM

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p.1 #7 · is my drive dying?

Short Answer...........Transfer your data NOW!

Long answer..............You should ALWAYS have two backup drives working behind your working hard drive. All MTBF means is that all drives will fail, half before that point and half after that point............but ALL DRIVES FAIL.

Aug 10, 2008 at 02:55 PM


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