This doesnt happen with my other drives (but they are not in a docking station) only this one drive. Theres no unusual sounds coming from the drive.but when I try to move data from the drive to another drive on Windows, it goes along fine for about 10 mins then suddenly goes to 0. Im not sure if the drive itself is going bad OR the docking station itself is the culprit. I like to print out a directory from the Mac Finder window as that makes it easy to see whats on the drives.īut perhaps the best (though most expensive) drive dock out there would be this one from travis b. Ive used the ones from Other World Computing for years but an Amazon or Internet search will reveal a ton more. Think of them as oversized USB thumb drives for projects that are 100 GBs.īeing able to RMA a drive dock through a reliable warranty at least gets you back up and running. Odds are when you purchased a bare drive it came with such a case. Should we be careful not to touch any particular parts of a bare drive.
Sometimes this information is on a white paper or tech specs sheet for a specific drive model, but often its an undocumented metric. Having the hard drive in a physical enclosure helps minimize the risk of dust piling up, but a dirty fan can have a similar impact if its spraying dust more than moving cool air.
I didnt realize there were so many different brands out there. It doesnt take a degree in video engineering to realize that a bare hard drive that is handled over and over again is a lot more susceptible to failure than a hard drive that resides in your Mac Pro.īut theres way too many docking stations in use out there by way too many people for it to be that dangerous of an idea. The result is a short Q and A about hard drive docking stations (and a lot of pics of those who are using them).
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