Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2018, 16:56:02 CET schrieb Grant Taylor:
> On 12/18/2018 05:21 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
> > I really don't trust USB and hard drives
> 
> IMHO external USB drive enclosures (physical enclosure, USB to SATA /
> PATA / ??? adapter, (no)fan) are suboptimal at best and are most likely
> to work when all the components are happy.
> 
> I view them as the weakest link.
> 
> If I have a drive problem, I like to connect the drive to a SATA (PATA)
> connector and access the drive directly.  I usually have better results
> saving data that way.

Yeah, that matches my experience as well.

Just to add a personal anecdote: I once had an external drive that I thought 
had broken (it made the "clicks of death"), but after taking it out of its USB 
enclosure and connecting it directly via IDE (shows how old the drive was...) 
it actually worked and I was able to copy all data from it.  Only one 
(unimportant) directory had been corrupted.

I mean, I still use USB drives, as they're quite practical for some things, 
but I'm more aware of the potential issues with them now.

-- 
Marc Joliet
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