再也不用外置硬盘了。。。@_@

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： 

• 我用坏过一个 -哈佛老师- ♀ (219 bytes) () 03/03/2008 postreply 20:45:08

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

• 转贴拉！ -实用电脑- ♂ (13 bytes) () 03/04/2008 postreply 07:01:20

• 现在一般都是三年包换的.10年6个,有点说不过去 -SunOfBeach- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/04/2008 postreply 11:35:03

• 换一个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

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

• 属于不当使用。外置硬盘操作与其他装置有别 -朱歌亮- ♂ (988 bytes) () 03/05/2008 postreply 07:23:34

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