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Topic: External Drive failures

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I'm using a Western Digital 750MB SATA drive mounted in an external ULTRA E-SATA/USB case. This is the 2nd one that's failed on me in 2 months. Does anybody have any experience using these SATA drives in a removable kit case? The drive itself sure gets warm, despite the fan on the case...
 
发表时间 Tue 15 Jan 08 @ 2:05 am
I use a WD 500gb hard drive and found that one of those USB Laptop Coolers will keep the temp down on the external drive.... Actually the drive had failed at one of my client's office and was out of warranty. I did a low level format and it hasnt bugged out on my yet....

When I add music and scan files I place it on the USB cooler overnight and it is very cool the next day... When I use it on gigs I dont use the cooler and the temp difference is really noticeble....

I purchased two aluminum external drive bays on Ebay that come with a small fan and those keep really cool... I saw some on ebay that now coem with a 3.5 in fan that probably works better....

It would be cheaper if you bought it on ebay.....
 
Yes... it seems like it gets pretty warm and freezes only when I'm copying or adding huge amounts of data (100+ GB).
 
I use 2 of these, in a club 7 hours a day, 5 days a week with no problems. They have 2 fans, and more importantly, no adapters. You can see them in my blog.
 
Wow - thanks. That looks like exactly what I need. Is this a common problem... SATA drive stops functioning when they work to hard?
 
I don't think it makes a difference. The drives are the same, it's just a different interface. You may have just been unlucky. Maybe you were a little rough, left them out in the freezing temperature, there is a short in one of the wires. How long were they on? What kind of case were they in. I have used these 16 hours when I have to do a double, in and out of the car, bumps and thumps.
 
I have left them on for 12+ hours as well. The problem arises when I try to do a large copy from the drive. Within 30 minutes, it freezes. Then, I reboot and everything is fine. Until I start another copy procedure. I guess copying to/from the drive really heats it up beyond the ability to cool it. I'll try the double fan case you mentioned.
 
I just built a new machine, and copied both 500g drives to 2 internal terabyte drives, with no problems. Maybe there is something else going on.
 
My cousin has a 500gb BigDisk from Lacie which was connected via eSATA and had exectly the same problems. Some research showed that alot of users had the same problem, but there was nothing as to what it was. Sorry, this doesnt help, but maybe its something to do with external SATA connections?
 
I'm not sure if it's heat related after all, because when I turn the whole system on, and directly start copying, I can't go for more than 15 minutes or so - not really long enough to get really hot...
 
Update... I disconnected the eSATA connection and connected only the USB2 connection. Now it copies fine for hours! Strange...
 
Sounds like you have a bad SATA controller. Shame because E-SATA blows USB away.
 
Where exactly is the SATA controller? Is that in the removable case itself? Or is that what that SATA cable plugs into in the rear of the computer? Or on the motherboard?
 
It is what the cable plugs into. I didn't catch if you were using a laptop or a desktop. I'm going to assume you are using a desktop. Unless you have a fairly new motherboard, your E-Sata connection will be on a removable card which can be replaced. You can get an E-Sata card from just about anywhere. (Best Buy, Walmart, etc..)
 
Oh I see, OK. I have another; I will swap it out.
 


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