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[snowwhyte9]

we are transferring data from my external terabyte drive to what was supposed to be the new backup drive (and will now be the primary drive, requiring us to buy another for backups asap).  we've spent a few hours this evening trying to make it work, installed Linux on the desktop, tried several different methods of attempting to get the drive to

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[mberding]

That's awesome!

So were you able to retrieve all of the data?

I'm going to be buying some more drives for new servers in the near future -- besides avoiding Western Digital, any suggestions?

[snowwhyte9]

well, we've had a good laugh over it....it needs ice packs on it to run for more than about 10-20 minutes, won't work if it gets too cold, won't work at room temperature, and can't handle large amounts of data or transfers that are more than two or three folders deep (making us have to go folder-by-folder for most things, and even file-by-file for some of them).

we've gotten most of the irreplaceable data onto the new drive by now, leaving about 400gb of data we could replace but hope not to have to, if we can get it transfered before the drive quite altogether. hopefully it won't be too much longer before we can afford another drive to back up the new one on. *eye roll*

i'm becoming a fan of maxtor. i have yet to have or hear of maxtor drives randomly refusing to read (which i gather is becoming more of a problem with larger-size western digital ones) or falling apart (two WD drives have done that to me so far).