my poor old maxtor.......

caddi daddi · Oct 17, 2016

I have a very old Maxtor external hard drive that I store my music collection on, the poor old thing has seen the whole of this world in our travels and has never skipped a beat.
the old plastic enclosure is cracked from when they dropped my luggage on Fiji, it still spills a little sand from the trip to nambia this year, it even survived my flipping the rally truck there.
it's on it's 8th or 10th power adaptor, umpteenth usb cord, this thing has been great but tonight it has made it's first noise, that special "click" known as the click of death...........
it has soothed me with music by every artist I ever care to hear, from ac/dc to alice in chains, from rl burnside, herman brood, bb king to yo yo ma and zz top.
what can I trust my ear holes to now that my dear friend is on it's way out?

Tír na nÓg · Oct 17, 2016

caddi daddi · Oct 17, 2016

but if I don't find another awesome drive I wont anymore and that would make me sad.

JLK03F150 · Oct 17, 2016

I've had a WD Passport with my mp3 collection on it for many years. So far, so good.

I also have everything stored a 120GB Zune, soooo... yeah. lol

Good luck getting your collection backed up!

RJARRRPCGP · Oct 17, 2016

caddi daddi said:
I have a very old Maxtor external hard drive that I store my music collection on, the poor old thing has seen the whole of this world in our travels and has never skipped a beat.
the old plastic enclosure is cracked from when they dropped my luggage on Fiji, it still spills a little sand from the trip to nambia this year, it even survived my flipping the rally truck there.
it's on it's 8th or 10th power adaptor, umpteenth usb cord, this thing has been great but tonight it has made it's first noise, that special "click" known as the click of death...........
it has soothed me with music by every artist I ever care to hear, from ac/dc to alice in chains, from rl burnside, herman brood, bb king to yo yo ma and zz top.
what can I trust my ear holes to now that my dear friend is on it's way out?

When did you get it? I bet it's a Seagate with the Maxtor name slapped on it! If post-2005! That may be why it's got a click of death... Except for the Maxtor 6Exxxxx series, which were the worst Maxtors... For Maxtor standards, they were soo low!

Pre-2006 Maxtor, FTW!

caddi daddi · Oct 17, 2016

I really don't know exactly what's inside the case, and yes, it's slooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Tír na nÓg · Oct 18, 2016

Slooooooowwwwwwwwwwww is sometimes goooooooooooddddddddddddddd!!!!!

cyberfish · Oct 20, 2016

If it's from that long ago you can probably find a bigger SSD now that costs pennies. And with your use case (almost write-once-never-delete) an SSD would last pretty much forever!

ATMINSIDE · Oct 20, 2016

How much storage is needed?

caddi daddi · Oct 20, 2016

it's 250 gig but it really needs to be closer to a TB to take all the tunes with me and have some space to grow.

petteyg359 · Oct 20, 2016

caddi daddi said:
it's 250 gig but it really needs to be closer to a TB to take all the tunes with me and have some space to grow.

The old 1.8" Maxtor drive in my iPod 5.5 80GB is still going

Not nearly enough space to hold all my music these days, though

$14 USB 3.0 enclosure (with a rubber bumper for when you drop it out of that rally truck)
$247 MX300 1TB

ATMINSIDE · Oct 20, 2016

Solid State External Drive:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AVF6UQQ/ref=twister_B01BCWKBZI

No moving parts to destroy when you drop it.

my poor old maxtor.......

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