再也不用外置硬盤了。。。@_@

I've owned six portable USB hard drives over the past 10 years, and all six of them have failed unrecoverably. Is it just me, or is there a wider problem out there?

These portable drives of mine were all big-brand drives. They've failed on three operating systems (Windows 95, XP and Vista) and always in the same fashion: Suddenly, the system can no longer recognize the drive. The errors don't seem to be caused by physical damage. It's happened on devices from small, pocket-size drives to massive multi-hundred-gigabyte drives.

You'd think I would have learned my lesson four drives ago. But I've always come back to portable hard drives because of a belief that vendors will continuously improve problems, and make the drives better and more reliable over time. This time, it won't fail!

Sure, the data on my drives is recoverable if I take it to an expensive forensic data recovery service. But I don't want to shell out that kind of money. Nor do I plan to waste another nickel on a new portable drive. From now on, I'll spend my mobile storage dough on monthly payments to my online backup service (Amazon S3 via JungleDisk).

My questions are: 1) do portable USB drives fail at far higher rates than internal drives?; 2) If so, why?; and 3) Are USB drive failures radically under-reported in the industry?

What's YOUR experience been with portable USB hard drives?

ZT !!!

所有跟帖： 

• 我用壞過一個 -哈佛老師- ♀ (219 bytes) () 03/03/2008 postreply 20:45:08

• i think its just you -SunOfBeach- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/04/2008 postreply 06:41:56

• 轉貼拉！ -實用電腦- ♂ (13 bytes) () 03/04/2008 postreply 07:01:20

• 現在一般都是三年包換的.10年6個,有點說不過去 -SunOfBeach- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/04/2008 postreply 11:35:03

• 換一個enclosure如何？ -出入自在- ♂ (426 bytes) () 03/04/2008 postreply 08:16:41

• Are you sure your USB ports still work in you computer? -////- ♂ (65 bytes) () 03/04/2008 postreply 08:27:27

• 人家說Same fashion，沒說Same time -dudaan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/04/2008 postreply 12:03:38

• 屬於不當使用。外置硬盤操作與其他裝置有別 -朱歌亮- ♂ (988 bytes) () 03/05/2008 postreply 07:23:34

• 有道理! 現在 Western Digital 出的 notebook drive 是否也應如此行事? -多嘴郎- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/05/2008 postreply 08:46:47