On Friday 06 August 2021 11:08:37 dep wrote: > said William Morder via tde-users: > | Sometimes I would even take the overheated hard drive and set it inside > | my freezer for a little while to cool down, because they would get HOT to > | the touch. > > Reminds me of the "stiction" issue with the Seagate ST251-1 MFM drives. > (Funny the things people remember.) Its failure mode, which I think came > mostly when people hooked it to an RLL controller to make it from a 40mb > to a 65mb drive, was such that after it displayed symptoms you would > remove it from the machine and pop it in the freezer. Next morning, you > had enough and only enough working drive left to remove it from the > freezer, hook it up, and take a backup. > -- > dep I never had one of those hard drives fail on me, but then I didn't keep using it like that (watching films, etc.). After that, I used the docking station for its intended purpose, not to make instant external hard drives. The Kingwin EZ Dock is (for me, at least) definitely a keeper, and does file transfers, backups and cloning very well. So I thought maybe it could be useful to you. They are only $35 or so, last I checked. But, like I said, keep a fan directed right on it, and don't use it like external hard drives. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
