- Maxtor One Touch hdd went bad
- Posted by hapyfishrmn@yahoo.com on March 2nd, 2006
I have a 250g Maxtor One Touch that keeps losing data. I don't know
what the cause might be, but I wanted to know could I buy a 500g of any
drive manufacturer and remove the 250g in the external and replace it.
I read on newegg.com with a Seagate drive a guy experienced problems
with that. I looked around on the web and didn't see anyone doing that
or having problems.
Thanks for any feedback.
-hap
- Posted by Rod Speed on March 2nd, 2006
hapyfishrmn@yahoo.com wrote:
Likely not a terrific idea, those cases dont cool the drive very well
and the replacement is likely to use more power than the original.
Seagate drive are a bit on the warm side anyway and an external
case without adequate cooling is only going to make that worse.
I'm not surprised.
- Posted by hapyfishrmn@yahoo.com on March 2nd, 2006
Rod Speed wrote:
Thanks for the feedback so, what would you say I am to do with the one
touch that I have would you consider putting anything in it, maybe a
less important drive with less space. Or a maxtor that has the same
resources needed?
And what is the best way to have big storage thats portable. Pre-built
enclosures or ennclosures separate and used a regular internal drive.
Or is there another solution??
- Posted by Timothy Daniels on March 2nd, 2006
<hapyfishrmn@yahoo.com> wrote:
The problem could be inadequate power or inadequate
cooling for the external HD. Kingwin makes products that
supply an external HD with both cooling and power and
link it to the PC via USB 2.0:
PATA: http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_Cat.asp?CateID=27
SATA: http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_Cat.asp?CateID=52
If your PC has an external SATA port (or if you can
lead a SATA cable out from the PC's case), Kingwin has
an external enclosure with a SATA link:
http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_detail.a...teID=52&ID=246
If you have an available 5 1/2" bay, Kingwin makes both
PATA and SATA "mobile racks":
PATA: http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_Cat.asp?CateID=25
SATA: http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_Cat.asp?CateID=47
Prices vary considerably on the Web, so shop around by
plugging a model number into Nextag.com, PriceWatch.com,
PriceGrabber.com, etc.
You can take the hard drive out of your Maxtor One-Touch
and slip it into one of these devices, and away you'd go!
*TimDaniels*
- Posted by Rod Speed on March 2nd, 2006
hapyfishrmn@yahoo.com wrote
I'd throw it away myself, its badly designed.
An enclosure that is properly designed
so the drive is cooled properly.
Depends on what you need portability wise. Mostly there isnt.
- Posted by Odie Ferrous on March 3rd, 2006
Rod Speed wrote:
Rod, it's not just badly designed. It's not designed at all.
It's one of the *worst* external enclosures I have come across.
However, LaCie, with their 2-drive RAID 0 external unit is probably as
bad.
Space for a fan, but no fan.
Not that a 40mm fan could cool two drives, anyway.
Odie
- Posted by Timothy Daniels on March 3rd, 2006
Athena also makes external enclosures for SATA hard
drives - both USB/SATA and SATA/SATA models:
http://www.athenapower.com/
*TimDaniels*
- Posted by Folkert Rienstra on March 3rd, 2006
"Odie Ferrous" <Odie_ferrous@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4407B409.4D1344AD@hotmail.com
Of course it can. That's a bloody huge fan for such a small enclosure.
It all depends on whether all the air transported by the fan is actually
guided along all surfaces of the drive(s) and creating enough airspeed to effectively transfer the heat generated and that no
airflow is wasted
But yes, that means it has to be aerodynamically designed internally so
no air can go through it that has not been in contact with the drives.
- Posted by Rod Speed on March 3rd, 2006
Folkert Rienstra <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote
It isnt the size of the enclosure that matters, what matters is the
amount of air that needs to be moved to cool the drives adequately.
That isnt necessary either.
It isnt the airspeed that matters, its the volume.
That isnt necessary either.
Wrong again.
- Posted by Rod Speed on March 3rd, 2006
Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote
What matters is how well they work, particularly on temperature.
- Posted by Timothy Daniels on March 3rd, 2006
"Rod Speed" wrote:
It's the volume per unit time, and it's the
volume per unit time that contacts the surface
of the drive - which is helped by turbulence.
And one promoter of turbulence is airspeed.
*TimDaniels*
- Posted by Timothy Daniels on March 3rd, 2006
"Rod Speed" wrote:
Correct. "Anna", an IT consultant who posts in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general from time to time,
has been doing tests with *plastic* mobile racks made
by this firm which have an 80mm fan built into the bottom
of the tray which holds the HD. (Athena calls it "turbo
cooling".) "Anna" says that temperatures have been
kept low by this fan - which, by the way, is the same fan
arrangement in the Kingwin parallel ATA mobile rack
that I use
(http://kingwin.com/pdut_detail.asp?L...eID=25&ID=136),
and I find that the hard drive shell is always below body
temperature. So, for the Athena models of mobile rack
and external HD enclosure that use their "turbo cooling",
temperatures are not a problem.
*TimDaniels*
- Posted by Rod Speed on March 3rd, 2006
Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote
Duh. That was too obvious to need to bother with in the context.
Mindless pig ignorant silly stuff with 40mm fans.
- Posted by Rod Speed on March 3rd, 2006
Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote
You dont know that with those external enclosures.
