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.
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.
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.
