simulatortrain
jointed freaking rails
I would imagine it runs at a cooler temperature thanks to the lack of a restrictive case and other warm objects in close proximity.
Freeing Up Hard Drive Space
- Thread starter dricketts
- Start date
Over many Years of fixing people's broken PC's the most common problem with External USB drives was due to due to constant plugging and unplugging breaking the solder joint on the connector on the internal circuit board, not usually a problem with the more upmarket brands. Never yet seen an actual drive that failed nearly always the socket and very rarely a failed chip on the circuit board.
Remove the drive from the enclosure and plug into a PC's SATA or IDE port to test and the drives are fine, easiest fix is a new enclosure or dig out the soldering iron and reconnect the socket to the PCB!
I've seen that and worse a crunched USB connector on the mainboard caused by a dodgy USB connector which was crushed just enough to flatten the pins inside the connector.
I did have a 3TB backup drive die on me. It started acting up recently. I was able to retrieve the data and I replaced the drive. My brother took the drive apart to retrieve the magnets and small parts. There was an odd streak on the platters which I will presume was caused by the failure. The streak was there before we got our hands on the platters as we removed them from the chassis.
John
I thought I was the only one too! There's some great little parts in there which are always good for something...
