Re: Drive experiences

Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:39:16 -0600



    Currently, a G4 Mac Mini running OS 10.4.11.  Trying
      to decide future hardware route.

      Don

    
    On 12/14/10 10:47 PM, Karl Shah-Jenner wrote:
    Don Roberts :
      

      I have been having an inordinate number of what I interpreted as
      external hard drive failures lately.  After a lot of thought and
      some experimentation I discovered that the large majority of those
      were not the drives but the interfaces.  USB and Firewire portals
      seem to go buggy much more often than the drives themselves do. 
      Have others on this list experienced similar situations? Is there
      a good troubleshooting method to immediately identify the source
      of the problem?
      

      Don
      

      what's your system Don, and your OS?