Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:54

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thanatoid wrote:
> muzician21 <muzician21@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:807ac7a0-4fce-414a-a3db-f8884fef9bcc@f19g2000yqo.googlegr
> oups.com:
>
>> I've got this WD 500 gb Firewire  external My Book drive
>> I've been using to store mostly video files for a big video
>> project. It doesn't have an on/off switch, it powers up
>> when power is first applied, goes dormant after a period of
>> inactivity and restarts when you try to access it. It's
>> worked flawlessly until today.
>
> Without reading the rest, or the replies, I will just say one
> thing.
>
> HD's fail, especially external ones (3x the price for the $10
> Chinese box and a $2 Chinese power adapter with the same drive
> inside that you could have put inside you machine).
>
> DVD's (or expensive tape drives used by corporations) are the only way to backup safely.

Wrong, as always.

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Subject: Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up
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