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My heart nearly stopped!!!!!
Art Scott
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Needed to off load some pix so I could head off to a retirement / birthday party shoot.....so I plug in my current working drive......damn thing starts sputtering the lights on flickering and it will not show up in Disk management...so I switch to my back up ....same thing.... and then the 3 rd copy....same thing...my heart is racing and pounding like Vesuvius when it buried Pompey....time was running out so I dumped the files onto my c drive and left to go shoot......
Came home...fired up the 'puter and plugged in main working drive....again it filckered and sputtered...and so did the other 2........damn how can 3 drives go bad in less than 2 days and at the same time.....it they had been western digital or maxtors I would have expected it...but not Seagate......I have lost a Seagate drive but never 2 or 3 out of the same batch......so I unplugged my tablet and plugged in my working drive again......it fired up, quiet and smooth no hitch......no I feel I can sleep.........check the 2 copy drives...all good.....heart rate down, pulse - normal and blood sugars dropping..........cold sweat gone.........I do have all of the jpgs stored on SM but I was worried about my DNGssssss..........
Moral ....I need an AC power cable for my laptop cooler and the 2 other usb docks.....they all accept power supplies I just did not purchase them when i purchased the docks or cooler....dummy me......
Yup that scared the bejeezers out of me.......:huh:huh..........and some other stuff also:D
Came home...fired up the 'puter and plugged in main working drive....again it filckered and sputtered...and so did the other 2........damn how can 3 drives go bad in less than 2 days and at the same time.....it they had been western digital or maxtors I would have expected it...but not Seagate......I have lost a Seagate drive but never 2 or 3 out of the same batch......so I unplugged my tablet and plugged in my working drive again......it fired up, quiet and smooth no hitch......no I feel I can sleep.........check the 2 copy drives...all good.....heart rate down, pulse - normal and blood sugars dropping..........cold sweat gone.........I do have all of the jpgs stored on SM but I was worried about my DNGssssss..........
Moral ....I need an AC power cable for my laptop cooler and the 2 other usb docks.....they all accept power supplies I just did not purchase them when i purchased the docks or cooler....dummy me......
Yup that scared the bejeezers out of me.......:huh:huh..........and some other stuff also:D
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Luckily like me you had your files on another hardrive too.
These moments in life we all could do without. I have an old seagate gone dead and i rever got it fixed as i was told that if i keep the drive there is a chance that the pictures are still on there until i get it fixed.
So i wish you well and hope that this dosent happen to you again.
Makes you wonder if you have your photographs stored on old hardrives how long they really last for.
I was thinking of backing up my hardrives onto dual layer dvds but even they have a limited life span too. What do you think?
Regards
Patrick.:D
I am now relatively certain that the prob was not enuff USB power getting thru from the laptop to the various docks I have daisy chained........I moved all 3 drives
up to the first dock (laptop cooler) and they ran silently & smoothly all night......which takes a load off my mind, however as soon as I find a sale locally on 1.5 to 2tb HDD I will get 3 more as spares............