• @elucubra
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    651 month ago

    These things (and Seagate’s) have the usb interface soldered on, so if the drivd dies, forget about the data, no way to connect to another usb adapter to try to recover. Granted, it’s usually the drive that dies, but in these cases, you have a 100% rate of non recovery . Any other brand’s are standard drives. My favorite are toshiba.

    • @tal@lemmy.today
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      221 month ago

      Why would the USB electronics be particularly likely to fail relative to other electronics on the drive?

      • @elucubra
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        1430 days ago

        In my experience the drive fails more often than the adapter, but they do fail. Also, there is a good chance to recover data from a failed drive. With a soldered adaptor it’s basically impossible. The worst part is that the externals are often used for backups.

      • @eskimofry@lemm.ee
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        730 days ago

        Because that’s usually the cheapest part that manufacturers can get away with cheapening iut further.

      • @elucubra
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        127 days ago

        Not particularly, but it happens.

    • @bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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      029 days ago

      I solder new usb connectors and all manner of other connectors on to stuff all the time.

      I’m at a 100% success rate getting data off stuff that just needs new connectors.

      If you need data recovered, the literal best case scenario is that it’s just got a bad connector.

      • @elucubra
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        127 days ago

        Soldering is not the problem, unless its smd or tiny, its getting a non standard usb interface.

        • @bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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          027 days ago

          you mean in the case of a dead USB ic or something or do you mean the USB port isnt standard?