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Just lost another HD. are docking stations to blame?

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rathoriel:
I have lost a few HD reciently and this one may be the worst a 2TB HD that was almost full...I wont know what I lost until i go to look for something i knew i had. I have noticed a trend It is usally the ones I have in a docking station. Has anyone else had experienced this?
 

boxer4:
The hard drive was internal to a docking station? or attached to the docking station?
Though either way it shouldn't be the docking station unless you didn't properly remove the drive from the machine when you were finished with it (like if you abruptly ejected the machine from the dock)...
No physical damage to the hard drive but may lose data...

datora:
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The term "docking station" has several applications.  Maybe you could describe more specifically what your situation is?  Technology you have and how you use it?  Maybe a link to the model of technology in question?

Is this one of those USB/SATA devices that you plug and unplug bare drives into?  I'd pretty much never trust one of those unless I used it under exceptionally careful circumstances and was using a very reliable, high-quality brand.  Especially I would never hot-swap any drive of mine under anything less than Emergency conditions.

NaRu:
Is the docking station powering the HDD through USB or it's own power source (plugs in the wall)?

mgz:
all these 1+tb hds are known to have higher failure rates until they improve the technology that is in current HDDs your much better with less then 1tb hdds IMO

And secondly a lot of docking stations that are externally powered have issues with consistency in power to HDD which can fuck with it.

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