[Eug-lug] More Laptop Woes

[Garl Grigsby]

Quentin Hartman wrote:
> If it doesn't work in a known good USB enclosure, it's almost 
> definitely two bad drives. Id' definitely RMA it if it's under 
> warranty. The question then becomes, why did they fail? Maybe you just 
> got unlucky, that's certainly not unheard of. Maybe your friend 
> mistreats his equipment (unintentionally or not) and he killed them. 
> Maybe the Dell has a design flaw and cooked the drives. Maybe your 
> friend likes to use his laptop in bed or on the couch, and unwittingly 
> sets it on a soft surface that blocks a cooling vent, and cooked the 
> drives.
Along the same vein, check and make sure the cooling fans are spinning 
and the heat sinks are jammed full of futz. If they are then you can bet 
your HDD won't last long.

-G