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Just lost another HD. are docking stations to blame?
kitamesume:
coils arent much of a problem with these, actually coils smooths out the waveform tho they kinda dislike doing it hence the hums on some coils.
what hates the stepped waveform are the other stuffs like the monitoring circuitry where when they see a sharp rise in the input(well the stepped waveform does have a sharp rise each step) it'll think its a spike.
GoGeTa006:
I also had problems with external hard drives so what I did was just put them inside the case and if I dont use them just keep them d/c from both sata and ps, TBH its not hard to remove the side panel from the case so its not that big of a hassle and I'd rather do that than risk another hard drive. . .it was such a painful experience loosing a 1 TB hard drive half-full with anime. . .
It was just horrible
nstgc:
That's what I use to do, but I started fearing that I would break the connectors. It didn't use to be a problem when my PSU was top mounted, but now that I have a bottom mounted PSU (due to the case), its putting extra strain on the power connectors. When one actually did crack (but not break completely) I freaked the fuck out and started looking for external enclosures.
AnimeJanai:
I use Kingwin bays in the desktop cases. Thus, I can slide in and out the hard drives as needed. There's no need to open up the case or worry about cracking your power connectors from accidental bending. My past posts on this are:
http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=28141.msg4588318#msg4588318
http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=30608.msg4636430#msg4636430
chubbysumo:
--- Quote from: rathoriel on April 23, 2012, 12:41:28 AM ---the HD that have died have been 2- 1TB seagates and 1 - 2TB WD Hard Drives as for the docking station
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153112 using USB
I also dont undock them frequently
edit: the seagates were 2 to 3+ years before fail the WD was from august 2011
--- End quote ---
Read the reviews of the dock your using, its an HDD destroyer. Its got bad power management, and bad HDD orientation, resulting in a higher than normal failure rate on drives that are used with it.
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