USB HD you were such a pain to me
I was gifted one of these fine external USB hard drives a while back. It totally saved the day cuz I figured I might as well back up my important data off my network share, then my network share died. Phew…. Since my network share was dead the USB drive got a bunch of use. Well recently is has started getting a little flaky. It would mount as read only and no matter what I did I had to reboot my machine for it to show back up. Eventually a reboot would not fix it anymore. I finally decided to just mount the sucker in fstab and it is doing pretty good now.
I added another 300gb internal drive and plan on using the USB drive as a precious data backup device only. Thing just scares me too much to use as a regular drive.
Firewire is where it’s at baby. Still, weird that it would only mount as read-only. I’ve got three of those bad boys sitting on my desk right now and have never had any issues.
Comment by jschwa — March 4, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
I finally got it all cleared off and am gonna repartition it and get it mounting all nice, fill it up, and unplug the sucker.
Comment by beerorkid — March 4, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
i had a tb world edition till i got tired up teh freak up load time over my newt line! even after upgrading to 1gb connection still only very slow transfer! so what ya DO? rip out the dual 500 gbs and mount them as my primary in my pc and order’d a tb drive as my internal back up hehe screw external large drives hehe i do got a pocket 120gb from WD and its been working like a charm between laptops and mt pc
Comment by PsycoJuana — March 4, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
I’m heading down to OfficeMax after work today to pick up an external drive for backups. My primary drive failed yesterday and I can’t pull anything off it. Had to learn my lesson the hard way: Make regular backups, kids!
Comment by Jeff — March 4, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
ouch…. That is horrible. I will delete something important for ya. Kinda like tippin my 40
Comment by beerorkid — March 4, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
Ah well, probably just karma for all the torrents
Comment by Jeff — March 4, 2008 @ 11:49 pm