My External Hard Drives Wouldn’t Work Out Of The Box
Posted in Repair by Manyu Friday, August 26th, 2011
I’ve had loads of external hard drives for backups from 5 MB up (yes – MB, not GB). This is the first one that wouldn’t work out of the box. It would start the backup, after about 5 minutes the computer would loose the drive, the backup would fail, then it would reappear.
I sent this 1T Western Digital drive back and went with a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex (Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB USB 2.0 Ultra-Portable External Hard Drive STAA1000100 (Black), which is fine and even supports other interfaces. But that’s another review…
I’m running Windows 7 on a Dell E6400 and have never had a problem with a drive or the USB port.
I suspect that it has a problem with the power on the USB port power. Don’t let them tell you “all externally powered drives over 500 MB have this problem”. I have 640s, 750s, and even the 1TB Seagate and have no problem.
On the plus side, it’s slightly smaller and lighter than the Seagate (but more so than a 640 GB drive). However, what good is carrying a small drive that doesn’t work? You might as well carry a rabbit’s foot and hope for the best.
Big drive need enough power to run properly……if your computer have problem of power then this problem starts……although you can use flash drive very easily that not enough to power to this powerful machine……….
