[Eug-lug] hardware query...

[Garl Grigsby]

Allen Brown wrote:
>> 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
>>     
>
> The one I experienced is a sled.  I bought it long ago.  ME-320
> ADU235W.  A web search finds this (after so many years!)
> http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1117
>
> Where people are mentioning freezing.  So I think you are onto something.
>
> As for my friend's experience, I don't know the exact device he
> was talking to.
>   
Yup. Sounds very similar to what I saw. On the plus side this is the 
sled I've been using successfully for a while now. As a bonus it's got 
eSATA if speed is really an issue (like during a big recover).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145167