THIS is the actual lesson to be learned from this experience. Otherwise, he could have just cussed a bit over the broken drive, and then carefully use his backup until he bought another drive to be his new back up drive. He is in the deep stuff, because he apparently did not have his valuable data backed up to another drive. For sure, Andrew would have fainted when a data recovery firm told him the estimated price of possible repair and recovery of data.Īlso, for Andrew and anyone else reading this, Andrew is now in deep-doo not because he tried to fix his broken drive. Darn that WD-40 people seem to want to spray on and into anything! Apologies to Andrew for using his experience to make this point clear to others.īTW, I really believe a drive that hit the floor was likely toasted for good, but since I am not a drive repair guy, I can’t be certain of this. I was in electronic repair for quite some time, and unfortunately met too many people who brought stuff in for repair that they tried to fix, but if they had just brought it in before they messed with it, it might have been easily salvageable, but wasn’t anymore. That worked out fine for more than a year. I would have to plug it into the USB port (USB3) and not make the slightest move near it.
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I have noticed after buying it that the cable was pretty sensitive.
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I put the important stuff on it, then take it off and shelve it. Western Digital also color codes the case of the external hard drive for various uses. The external storage devices in the consumer space are divided into four product lines: MyPassport, My Book, WD TV, and My Cloud. Look at it this way:įor the sake of others reading this thread who could be inclined to do something similar, it does help to point out to them that if you don’t know what you are doing, don’t mess with something. Hello, I am using My Passport 4TB external drive for a while (very lightly) but only for backups. Western Digital is one of the leading companies in external storage devices, especially in the consumer electronics market. Good point Timothy, although it was not meant to be mean.