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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
February 25, 2019 at 9:21 pm
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(February 25, 2019 at 9:02 pm)fredd bear Wrote: (February 25, 2019 at 6:31 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: bestbuy.com Or Amazon.com. Comparison shopping always recommended.
Indeed, Although I have found Ebay to be a pretty accurate price guide for most things..
I prefer not to shop at Amazon because I don't like the way they treat their employees.
Addendum; I checked. bestbuy.com is not available in Oz.
Maybe you need a relay person? Somebody in St. Louis, perhaps?
(February 25, 2019 at 9:21 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (February 25, 2019 at 9:02 pm)fredd bear Wrote: Indeed, Although I have found Ebay to be a pretty accurate price guide for most things..
I prefer not to shop at Amazon because I don't like the way they treat their employees.
Addendum; I checked. bestbuy.com is not available in Oz.
Maybe you need a relay person? Somebody in St. Louis, perhaps?
EYA: Have you considered ordering directly from the manufacturer?
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
February 25, 2019 at 11:29 pm
(February 25, 2019 at 9:21 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (February 25, 2019 at 9:02 pm)fredd bear Wrote: Indeed, Although I have found Ebay to be a pretty accurate price guide for most things..
I prefer not to shop at Amazon because I don't like the way they treat their employees.
Addendum; I checked. bestbuy.com is not available in Oz.
Maybe you need a relay person? Somebody in St. Louis, perhaps?
(February 25, 2019 at 9:21 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Maybe you need a relay person? Somebody in St. Louis, perhaps?
EYA: Have you considered ordering directly from the manufacturer?
Considered, yes, willing , no, unless the manufacturer was local..
I like to buy locally if I can, because our consumer protection laws have teeth. OR Ebay; have bought dozens of things, and have had few problems. Whenever an item has been faulty, I have always been able to get a refund.
In terms of an external SSD, I will only consider buying one when the price is competitive with HDD. From what I've seen there's still a long way to go.
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
February 26, 2019 at 12:30 am
(February 22, 2019 at 9:04 pm)fredd bear Wrote: About a year ago, I bought a LACIE 500Gb external hard drive, I wanted to have a drive which used an external power source.
Used it for larger files, mainly videos, a total of about 350GB
Had not used it for about 6 months.
Yesterday,I attached it to my Imac. When I opened it, the only thing showing was one folder; "BUDA"
As far as I'm aware it's unusual for a hard drive to suddenly delete everything. That leads me to believe there is a software issue. That the files are probably still there.
I also have a laptop, which runs Windows 10 and Linux Mint Cinnamon, as dual boot.. have also tried the Lacie drive on each OS. Same result.
Does anyone happen to know of any troubleshooting I can do?
I don't know how to get rid of it, but I think it happens when you connect the drive to a bluray player. I've had a few external drives and BUDA only appears in those I've used to watch tv with.
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
February 26, 2019 at 8:14 am
(February 25, 2019 at 11:29 pm)fredd bear Wrote: (February 25, 2019 at 9:21 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Maybe you need a relay person? Somebody in St. Louis, perhaps?
EYA: Have you considered ordering directly from the manufacturer?
Considered, yes, willing , no, unless the manufacturer was local..
I like to buy locally if I can, because our consumer protection laws have teeth. OR Ebay; have bought dozens of things, and have had few problems. Whenever an item has been faulty, I have always been able to get a refund.
In terms of an external SSD, I will only consider buying one when the price is competitive with HDD. From what I've seen there's still a long way to go.
They're not for bulk storage, their claim to fame is speed.* For accessing the frequently needed code they're the champs.
*I started out on a 286 computer back in the '80s. Speed is incredible now even without an SSD.
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
February 26, 2019 at 4:55 pm
(February 26, 2019 at 8:14 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (February 25, 2019 at 11:29 pm)fredd bear Wrote:
Considered, yes, willing , no, unless the manufacturer was local..
I like to buy locally if I can, because our consumer protection laws have teeth. OR Ebay; have bought dozens of things, and have had few problems. Whenever an item has been faulty, I have always been able to get a refund.
In terms of an external SSD, I will only consider buying one when the price is competitive with HDD. From what I've seen there's still a long way to go.
They're not for bulk storage, their claim to fame is speed.* For accessing the frequently needed code they're the champs.
*I started out on a 286 computer back in the '80s. Speed is incredible now even without an SSD.
I understand that SSD are used for speed; EG if and when I get new PC, it will have 265GB SSD to run it.
However, I'm hoping they will get a bit bigger ,say 1TB. . Even so,I can store a lot of data on 512GB, so perhaps I'll get one when they get cheaper, and buy more as needed. (I don't play games)
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
February 26, 2019 at 5:02 pm
EVO sells a 1T. Saw it at Best Buy this weekend.
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
February 26, 2019 at 6:23 pm
(February 26, 2019 at 5:02 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: EVO sells a 1T. Saw it at Best Buy this weekend.
I don't know what EVO is.
Best buy has one shop in Australia, in Queensland, I think. it does not sell online in Australia. I seldom buy anything from overseas, unless via Ebay.-
As I've said, I prefer not to do business with Amazon because of the way they treat their employees
I will start buying external SSD when the price is competitive with flash drives. My use externally is only for storage . Currently i store things on the Imac hard drive, backups on external HDD or flash drives.
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
February 26, 2019 at 6:24 pm
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It doesn't seem likely that solid state drives will achieve price parity with spinny disks or flash anytime soon.
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
February 26, 2019 at 6:44 pm
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RE: External hard drive has lost all its data
February 27, 2019 at 1:19 am
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