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Tom E wrote:
> "muzician21" <muzician21@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:807ac7a0-4fce-414a-a3db-f8884fef9bcc@f19g2000yqo.googlegroups.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.
>>
>> Normally the blue light in front dances up and down during boot up as
>> well as whenever there's data transfer but now I notice the light
>> flashes briefly when power is first applied, the drive makes some
>> noise like it's starting to spool up but then shuts down. The couple
>> of h/d's I've had die in the past gave me some warning, made weird
>> clicking noises for a while before crapping out. This one was working
>> perfectly normally until now. I wouldn't think overheating would be
>> an issue with this drive, the case is extensively vented unlike most
>> external drives I've seen.

Unless a drive has a decent volume of air moved across the PCB, it's doomed 
to a short life.

USB caddies are death for any drive.
Unless the PCB has a fan on it, even a tower spells death - unless maybe the 
drive sits on the floor of the tower rather than the confines of a 3.5" bay 
... and even then it'll struggle.
Best thing anyone can do for a caddied HDD, is give it it's freedom by 
cutting the PCB side off the caddy box and attaching an 80mm fan (and 
grille) - that or remove it from the caddy completely.


 It doesn't get used that much.
>>
>> Anyone have experience with these drives? Any chance there's a power
>> supply inside the case that's causing the problem and can be swapped
>> with another from an identical drive? Would be a huge
>> Aaaaargggghhhhh!!!!!! to lose the hundreds of gigs of files. Any
>> chance WD would do such a repair?  I don't want another drive, I need
>> THIS drive to work.
>>
>> Thanks for all assistance.
>>
>
> Q1. Can you connect it to another comp............I ask this because
> the Firewire port on my laptop is iffy and only sees the drive when
> it wants to.