Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 20, 2005, at 8:55 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > Dear LUG: > > I am depending on you, especially Brian, to save my sanity. My > computer has crashed once again. I have in my closet 6 Maxtor 250 > GB hard drives that have failed. ..... I had a similar problem except that I replaced every single piece of my Windows PC ... discs x 2, memory, motherboard, CPU, power supply, case etc. and could never figure out where the problem was, that is when I junked that PC and bought (another) Power Mac G5 ... which read the discs fine BTW. I have both an external Firewire 800 and external SATA RAID box which I use just as individual discs. These are "hot swap" so you just load the drives into the hot swap carriers and plug them in when used. I've had trouble with the little external USB boxes. I very seriously doubt the problem is with Maxtor .. if there are any differences between difference discs, they are relatively small, and wouldn't cause *6* drives to fail in sort order (FWIW my G5 shipped with a Maxtor SATA 250). I *would* seriously look at hooking up all your equipment to a very good power supply with both brownout protection and battery back up. Having such a series of equipment problems would make me very suspicious that you have AC power issues. The Mac OS X journalled disc format is really excellent at dealing with hardware crashes and preserving hard disc data. Having also gone through a similar issue, I would second the recommendation to just get a Mac ... my life has been much saner since. Jonathan