[Leica] Seagate - again

[digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird)]

Tina,

I use a different system now after one of my Western Digital 120GB
drives had a similar problem, the USB connector wasn't broken like
your's but it got 'flaky' and wouldn't always get a good connection.
So I took a different route and started backing up all my data on a
Sandisk 32GB flash drive. I would transfer the data to ALL my
computers, all running Windows (gasp), 3 at the office not including a
portable Acer Aspire One. I would then physically carry the Acer and
the flash drive home and transfer the data to my home laptop (HP) via
USB. If figure one or maybe two Windows systems may go down at the
same time, but not FIVE. Safety in numbers. And if one of my USB ports
goes flaky I still have at least three on each machine, more on the
towers. So far no problems.

Jim

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Jim Nichols<jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:
> Frank,
>
> I bought something similar on Brian's recommendation, and use it to archive
> to some bare hard drives. It works out fine for me. ?My normal backup is to
> a WD enclosed HD that stays disconnected and powered down except when the
> backup is being done.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Dernie"
> <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Seagate - again
>
>
>> I bought a gadget which is to all intents and purposes a hard drive
>> connector on one end of a cable, a USB connector on the other and a ?power
>> supply, I found it easy to remove my hard drive from its case, ?plugged
>> everything and there was my data. Not a permanent installation ?but great
>> for this sort of situation, though repairing the USB socket ?in the 
>> existing
>> case is another option.
>> I used to use this connector for backups to bare hard drives, but it ?was
>> a bit clunky so it is for emergency use only now.
>> Google should find one near you.
>> good luck,
>> Frank
>>
>> On 1 Aug, 2009, at 16:38, Tina Manley wrote:
>>
>>> LUG:
>>>
>>> The problem with my Seagate external hard drive is definitely the ?USB
>>> connection. ?The connection has come loose and fallen back into ?the 
>>> case.
>>> ?The data should be fine, I just can't get to it. ?Do I ?dare try to open
>>> the case and take out the drive? ?I know if I send ?it in for data 
>>> retrieval
>>> the estimate will be about $1900. ?The 1T ?drives are selling for $89 now
>>> and I've just ordered 4 to put in a ?Drobo so I won't miss this one if it
>>> doesn't work. ?It is still ?under warranty and I'm sure I void the 
>>> warranty
>>> by opening the case, ?but I'd rather have the data if it's possible to 
>>> take
>>> out the drive ?and hook it up some other way.
>>>
>>> This drive is full of nothing but Leica photos ;-) so it's on ?topic. Has
>>> anybody ever opened a drive like this successfully? ?I ?found a U-Tube 
>>> video
>>> showing how to do it.
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>> Tina Manley
>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>>
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