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Another hard drive crashed

ChuckH

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A second external hard drive of mine crashed in as many weeks, causing me to lose a lot of the shows I ripped and/or downloaded.

How much does the computer access external hard drives when idle? I know that with USB flash drives, you are supposed to select "eject" since the computer might still be accessing the drive shortly after you finish reading or writing to the drive, but there is no "eject" option for an external USB hard drive. It is getting frustrating, especially since I don't have internet access where I watch most of the shows, the primary reason why I use these programs.
 
You should get the drive out of the enclosure, attach to SATA directly and use the drive manufacturer's low level tools to check it. Maybe you can rescue some data. PC Inspector FileRecovery and Wondershare Recoverit are good tools if attached so.
 
ChuckH said:
but there is no "eject" option for an external USB hard drive.
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I have two drives in a Sabrent USB drive docking station. They are external USB hard drives, are "drive lettered", and can be ejected by the "Safely Remove Hardware" option. Why can yours not be?
 
mmdavis said:
I have two drives in a Sabrent USB drive docking station. They are external USB hard drives, are "drive lettered", and can be ejected by the "Safely Remove Hardware" option. Why can yours not be?
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Sabrent also makes NVMe SSDs, they are the best brand by far.
 
coopervid said:
Guys-he should try to rescue his data. Before getting whatever he gets next.
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1) If it is that important, it should have been backed up. Trying to "rescue" the data, after the fact, is a bit late.
2) I have never seen a USB drive that could not be ejected. Removing or turning off a USB connected drive without ejecting it first, is asking for a failure.
 
mmdavis said:
1) If it is that important, it should have been backed up. Trying to "rescue" the data, after the fact, is a bit late.
2) I have never seen a USB drive that could not be ejected. Removing or turning off a USB connected drive without ejecting it first, is asking for a failure.
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You are absolutely right about making backups. However with the drive out of the enclosure and connected to SATA he might be able to rescue the data if there is no head crash or other failure that prevents to read at least most of his data. I was able to do so in most cases my hard drives failed.
 
This is what I use, I have 4 of them now.

WD Gold 8TB Enterprise Class Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD8004FRYZ
 
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