[Eug-lug] hardware query...

[Garl Grigsby]

Allen,
   Is this a generic USB sled or is this a prepackaged USB HDD? I've 
found a few USB sleds that are useless and have seen the same thing you 
reported: Hard locks after a few gigs of transfer. Others are bullet 
proof. In fact I do 80gb of backup, in a single copy, every week to one 
with ZERO problems. Been going strong now for months. I've also got a 
couple of Western Digital USB drives that I use for storing VMWare 
images on that I copy back and forth to my laptop with no issues. The 
new Seagate drives are crap. They tend to go to 'sleep' on their own and 
there seems to be no way to wake them up without restarting them. Of 
course that may be fixed. The one I bought went back after I realized 
the cause of my problem.

Garl