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COMMON REASONS FOR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FAILURE

External hard drives have become popular in recent years for many reasons.  Storage
needs have significantly increased due to the usage of digital photographs, video, songs
and more.  The need to transfer large amounts of data has also increased.  External
hard drives are vulnerable to failure for a variety of reasons.


COMMON EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE PROBLEMS

All hard drives are vulnerable to failure whether they are internal or external.  External
hard drives are prone to failure due to the following reasons:

Dropped hard drive - Due to the portability of external hard drives, there is an increase
in the number of incidents of drives being dropped while transported.  This can cause the
interior components to become damaged rendering the drive nonfunctional.

Hard Drive fell from a surface - Many external hard drives fall because they have been
placed too close to the edge of a surface.  Also, drives that are designed to sit upright on
a flat surface are also prone to tipping.  It is probably a good idea to lay the drive flat
instead of upright.

Dangling cables -
Excess cable should be properly pulled out of the way to ensure the drive does not get pulled to the floor by getting tangled up with feet or hands in the work
area.

Using the wrong power cord- Many people mistakenly plug the wrong power cord into
their external drive causing a power surge which will overheat the hard drive.  It is crucial
to make sure you are using the correct power cord and cables with the correct hard drive.


EXTERNAL DRIVE ERROR MESSAGES

delayed write failed, hard drive crashed, hard drive noise, hard drive failure, external hard drive corrupted, external hard drive not recognized, drive stopped working, hard drive does
not mount, input/output error, RAID volume error


COMMON BRANDS & MODELS OF EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES

Western Digital (My Book, WD Elements, WD Passport)
Lacie (d2 Quadra, Big Disk Extreme, Big Disk, Bigger Disk Extreme)
Lacie RAID (2big Triple, Biggest Quadra, Two Big eSATA, 2big Spare, Biggest S2S,
Iomega (Silver desktop, Portable, Minimax, Power Pro, UltraMax, Network)
Maxtor (One Touch, Basics Personal Storage 3200, Shared Storage II)
Seagate (FreeAgent, External SATA, Mirra Personal Server)
Hitachi (Ultrastar, CinemaStar)
Fantom Drives (G-Force MegaDisk)
Buffalo (DriveStation, TeraStation, LinkStation )
 




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