Need help with Western Digital External Hardrive

[thirty5]

I am not sure that it is advisable to tell someone to connect something inside the computer. If that drive is old it is prob an IDE card, if the compter is new, it may not have any ide connectors avail and only sata connectors.

No knock on the OP, but if someone does not know the basics in troubleshooting then telling them to open the case and try to connect internally to a computer is not that good of an idea.

Merely touching the inside of the computer when it is running is not only dangerous, you can fry the computer also.

 

[Widdy]

I have a http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1268&ID=1642 you can borrow. But I won't be in Queens until Saturday.

 

[thirty5]

http://www.carbonite.com/en/home/online-backup

Check that out for backup! $60 a month, but I'm sure that there are some coupons online somewhere.

I am going to switch to carbonite from mozy, since Mozy changed from unlimited to tiered.

I currently have 555.9 gigs of data backed up!

 

[Widdy]

Check that out for backup! $60 a year, but I'm sure that there are some coupons online somewhere.

$60 a month for personal would be pricey.

 

[thirty5]

$60 a month for personal would be pricey.

NOT PER MONTH!! PER YEAR!!!!!

http://www.carbonite.com/lp/aff/retailmenot.aspx?cm_mmc=affiliate-_-usa%3Anone-_-CJ%3A2210202-_-Discount+Retailmenot+10%25+Discount+URL

$139 for 3 years!
$46 bucks a year.

That is well worth it IMO for saving all your photos and such. I will be paying that. Cheaper than getting an external HDD and then remembering to back it up. Where are you going to get a good external for $139, and with unlimited backup???

Have to look at it as a security system for your house. I pay like $200 a year for maintenance, and then like $30 something a month JUST IN CASE!

Here is less than 4 bucks a month for knowing that your data is safe! Those pictures and videos AND MUSIC that everyone pays for!

 

[lfsmarineguy]

I was going to say, $60 a month and you guys were saying RAID wasn't a good idea lol. You could get the drives and pay Geeksquad to install it even and still have enough for a few console games.

 

[Widdy]

NOT PER MONTH!! PER YEAR!!!!!

http://www.carbonite.com/lp/aff/ret...10202-_-Discount+Retailmenot+10%+Discount+URL

$139 for 3 years!
$46 bucks a year.

That is well worth it IMO for saving all your photos and such. I will be paying that. Cheaper than getting an external HDD and then remembering to back it up. Where are you going to get a good external for $139, and with unlimited backup???

Have to look at it as a security system for your house. I pay like $200 a year for maintenance, and then like $30 something a month JUST IN CASE!

Here is less than 4 bucks a month for knowing that your data is safe! Those pictures and videos AND MUSIC that everyone pays for!

Dude, why are you yelling? You said per month first, and I corrected it.

 

[thirty5]

Dude, why are you yelling? You said per month first, and I corrected it.

Doh.
Sorry about that! My bad!

:fishhit: :fishhit: :fishhit: :fishhit: :fishhit: :fishhit: :fishhit:

 

[Widdy]

Doh.
Sorry about that! My bad!

:fishhit: :fishhit: :fishhit: :fishhit: :fishhit: :fishhit: :fishhit:

It's all good All just trying to help... hope Carbonite serves you well. I'm a Mozy Partner, but at home I have 2 arrays; 1 6TB for virtualization and another 12TB for media.

 

[thirty5]

It's all good All just trying to help... hope Carbonite serves you well. I'm a Mozy Partner, but at home I have 2 arrays; 1 6TB for virtualization and another 12TB for media.

I really like mozy and would stay with them. But they are killing the unlimited plan that I signed up for.

I was thinking of a sans, but for home use, the price of it would be too much! I don't really need the speed just for a back up. The online works well for me.

 

[Widdy]

They won't grandfather your subscription since you're an existing customer? That sucks.

Having a SAN at home is pretty hardcore. I have a Thecus NAS and a DIY NAS (Openfiler). But the link I posted for Drobo is pretty nice for most users, and provides the redundancy; just make sure alerts and alarms are setup correctly. Don't want to be left out of the loop if a single drive dies and it's running in degraded mode.

 

[thirty5]

They won't grandfather your subscription since you're an existing customer? That sucks.

Having a SAN at home is pretty hardcore. I have a Thecus NAS and a DIY NAS (Openfiler). But the link I posted for Drobo is pretty nice for most users, and provides the redundancy; just make sure alerts and alarms are setup correctly. Don't want to be left out of the loop if a single drive dies and it's running in degraded mode.

NAS is slow! If I am going to use something like that, I will not use just for backup, I would want to use as file server also.

I would rather spend the cash on a new 90g Reef tho

 

[Widdy]

NAS is slow! If I am going to use something like that, I will not use just for backup, I would want to use as file server also.

I would rather spend the cash on a new 90g Reef tho

Oh no, I don't use them for backup only. It's in a pseudo "production" environment for my lab and media streaming. I just rely on RAID for redundancy; very bad practice for continuity, btw.

I hear that to more reefing!

 

[lfsmarineguy]

12TBs.... that's a lot of porn.

 

[Widdy]

12TBs.... that's a lot of porn.

:theyareon

 

[thirty5]

:theyareon

Well to defend him a little. When you have a RAID array, you always lose at least 1 drive.

So he really does not have 12TB it may be only 10!

 

[Widdy]

Well to defend him a little. When you have a RAID array, you always lose at least 1 drive.

So he really does not have 12TB it may be only 10!

Thanks 35, but it is 12TB usable Guilty as charged...
5 x 3TB = 15TB less 1 drive for parity (RAID 5) = ~12TB

 

[thirty5]

Thanks 35, but it is 12TB usable Guilty as charged...
5 x 3TB = 15TB less 1 drive for parity (RAID 5) = ~12TB

HAHAHAH i was trying to help! But you did lose 1 drive!

 

[mk4fan]

I have a http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1268&ID=1642 you can borrow. But I won't be in Queens until Saturday.

I'm in no rush, but would you be able to help me do this? Looks like all I would have to do is open the external hd and take out the hd and plug it into your Blac X storage device. Sounds simple but never done this before and don't want to damage the hd.

Thanks,
Steven

 

[thirty5]

I'm in no rush, but would you be able to help me do this? Looks like all I would have to do is open the external hd and take out the hd and plug it into your Blac X storage device. Sounds simple but never done this before and don't want to damage the hd.

Thanks,
Steven

In theory yes that is all that you have to do. Is your external a BIG drive or smaller. Older drives may have been a full size 3.5 drive, but now they use laptop drives.

The easy way to answer it is: Do you need to plug it into a power supply? Or does it get power from the USB? If USB then it is a laptop size drive. You just need to make sure that his unit will accept that type of drive. I also didn't look at his adapter to see if it will accept IDE or SATA drives. This is important. All questions to ask.

If you can get it open and the drive fits in the unit, and it does not spin up then I will be that it is the circuit board on the actual drive. Hopefully you can find one that will work and you can get that and replace it, then get the data off and throw out the drive.