Needed to off load some pix so I could head off to a retirement / birthday party shoot.....so I plug in my current working drive......damn thing starts sputtering the lights on flickering and it will not show up in Disk management...so I switch to my back up ....same thing.... and then the 3 rd copy....same thing...my heart is racing and pounding like Vesuvius when it buried Pompey....time was running out so I dumped the files onto my c drive and left to go shoot......
Came home...fired up the 'puter and plugged in main working drive....again it flickered and sputtered...and so did the other 2........damn how can 3 drives go bad in less than 2 days and at the same time.....it they had been Western Digital or Maxtor's I would have expected it...but not Seagate......I have lost a Seagate drive but never 2 or 3 out of the same batch......so I unplugged my tablet and plugged in my working drive again, directly to computer no USB dock......it fired up, quiet and smooth no hitch......now I feel I can sleep.........check the 2 copy drives...all good.....heart rate down, pulse - normal and blood sugars dropping..........cold sweat gone.........I do have all of the jpgs stored on SmugMug but I was worried about my DNGs..........
Moral ....I need an AC power cable for my laptop cooler and the 2 other usb docks.....they all accept power supplies I just did not purchase them when i purchased the docks or cooler....dummy me......
If you are using any sort of USB dock and it accepts an AC power supply....make sure to use it.
Yup that scared the bejeezers out of me.................and some other stuff also
I let the 3 drives spin all night long connected directly to the computer....they are still nice and quiet 12 hrs later and still spinning.....until tomorrow night when I split them up to their respective off site storage places
