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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
The most proven reliable tech can fail - my 2TB Seagate GoFlex external drive used to be dead. Been sitting around for almost a year now. This thread made me wonder if it may not have been a glitch on my part. The drive is a usb 3.0 capable drive with the usb 3.0 cord along with it. My computer only has usb 2.0 as well as the old computer that went belly up shortly after the external drive complained about errors. So I tried a brand new usb 2.0 cord today. It took a little bit for my computer to be ready to read from it, but it is working now. I am getting about 19MB/s on average read speed which is what I would reasonably expect over usb 2.0. The last time I tried to copy the data off of it it usually failed after hanging at a few hundred bytes per second.
Sometimes even the cheapest little silly thing can fail - in this case a cable.
Yay, 36 GB of data which was previously considered lost is back.  |
Now you have me thinking and wondering if there is newer technology that may be able to read more off my "bad" backups. I still have the drives, I think I'll look into this......