options:
1.get a new power supply from the manufacturer/ebay or use one with a similar plug and specs if you have one.
2.place drive in a new enclosure
3.remove from enclosure and use as an internal drive

Seagate drives have been shit ever since they went chinky-chong-china with the manufacturing.

>>5242

No wonder why united states and or other countries lose their jobs to china this explains why people are getting poorer

I had that one once, it failed as well, I simply cracked the case open and inserted the drive like all the other internal ones and it worked fine.

It gave the click of death three years later, taking all my porn with it as well as a lot of other shit I at least did'nt mind losing too much.

Someone actually still buys Crapgate after merger with Shitstor?

Also

Fuck external hard drives that need external power as well.

The requirement for a wall outlet makes the damn thing useless for transporting to any place except location you have prepared up front.

Obligatory "i only ever bought Maxtor, Seagat and IBM with not a single failure but WD HDDs died like the flies on me" counter.

But then again, i never bought consumer disks but always the server editions.
Except for the WD, which died, got warranty replaced, died again, and again, and again....

I don't know how everyone else treats their hardware but the only failed hard drive I've ever come across was in a macbook (it shouldn't take the removal of 50 screws to replace a hard drive)

I'd put it under one of those "all electronics are prone to failure" category. Doesn't matter how good a rep a brand has, there'll always be someone who has shit luck.

I've been all Seagate/WD in the past decade, not one failure. Lord knows everyone else in my family has had at least one drive die on them though of varying brands.

I purchased a 1 TB Seagate drive over a year ago and it has yet to fail me. Seagate is a name that is known for quality. They have been around for a very long time and I know a lot of people who use their drives.

WD sucks. I bought a external drive from them and it died on me within a week. I chucked that fucker against the wall.

I use both Seagate and WD, and I pray to the gods of random probability that they will continue to work for another passage of the sun in the sky.

In all seriousness though, it seems to be pure chance. You'll hear stories of terrible and wonderful products on both sides. My longest lived drive is a small external 500 GB Seagate, but I also have a bunch of WDs that haven't failed me yet. Best bet is to follow the golden rule, if your data is not stored in 3 locations, it can be assumed to not exist. You have to overcompensate for Murphy's Law. Not easy with current HDD prices, but if the data is important it must be done.

Dear god op are you the guy who brought me that same exactly model segate that was fucked?

Few days ago somebody brought me one to fix, here's a suggestion.

Take a flat head screw driver, pop that fucking top, remove that shitty metal covering, remove the shocks. Buy a enclosure from newegg, put it in that.

I've had some serious issues with Seagate. One that was externally powered and one that was usb powered. The AC one dies on me hard and the other one I had to rip apart to save the data. Seagate offered to get my privileged data back for like $700. I lul'd and did the work myself but I am never buying seagate ever again.

does anyone have done this before?

>>5255

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I... suppose. It's not like the implement proprietary interfaces, they should all use SATA ports (though I've never popped open an external drive to really look and see).

I would have to question the reason for doing so though, most external drives aren't cheaper than their internal equivelant. If anything, I've noticed that they are a bit more expensive because they often use miniaturized 2.5 inch platters. It may look like they are cheaper if you compare them to a Black drive, but consider that they are probably using a Green or a Blue.

FFFFUUUUU-FFFUUUUUCCKKK! Now I've got a problem with one of my drives. Evil is afoot, evil I tell ya!

>>5261
I think so too. The 2 drives I just had crash was just but a week ago. It was a trap!