Failed external Hard Drives!
July 12, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, my Lacie 320GB porche-designed external HDD decided to ‘pack in’. It’s death rattle, a faint clicking sound belied its poor condition. Installing the drive into a PC highlighted that all was not well when the PC couldn’t access it either.
I was more concerned today, when my Iomega 500GB MiniMax external drive exhibited the exact same symptoms. That faint clicking ‘death rattle’ spelled a looming expense of replacing the unit. Happily, in this case, the clicking noise meant that the was a power problem. Switching to another power supply completely cured the problem. So, it just goes to show how identical symptoms can identify very different problems.
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