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JARblue · 02-15-2013, 10:23 AM

I should add that in the past 10 years or so, I have worked on about 15 failed external hard drives given to me by various friends. About 25% of the time, the drive is recoverable in some fashion, though only once was I able to leave the drive in the enclosure. I always recommend a NAS (Network Attached Storage) running a RAID 1 or 5 with reliable enterprise-level hard drives with 5 yr warranty. Two of my friends EACH had four external drives fail before they finally broke down and had me build a RAID 5 NAS for them.

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JARblue A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Austin, TX Age: 44 Posts: 36,450 Drives: 11 Z34, 98 E36 M3 Rep Power: 2684441	I should add that in the past 10 years or so, I have worked on about 15 failed external hard drives given to me by various friends. About 25% of the time, the drive is recoverable in some fashion, though only once was I able to leave the drive in the enclosure. I always recommend a NAS (Network Attached Storage) running a RAID 1 or 5 with reliable enterprise-level hard drives with 5 yr warranty. Two of my friends EACH had four external drives fail before they finally broke down and had me build a RAID 5 NAS for them. __________________ 2011 370Z 6MT Sport Gun Metallic \| ARC \| CJM \| Ecutek \| FI \| Fujimura \| R2C \| SPL \| Stillen \| TWM \| Z1 \| ZSpeed \|