Last September 2004, I bought a " MASSCOOL FI310 Aluminum 3.5" USB + IEEE 1394 External Enclosure" to work with my 250Gig Maxtor hard drive. This worked fine until about July 2005. Then the hard drive stopped working totally. It wouldn't work with the 1394 plug or the usb plug.
I decided to buy a new hard drive and use the same External exclosure in August. I bought a WD 160 gig drive this worked for about 2 months. Now this hard drive doesn't work either.
Now I'm not sure what's going on. Is it possible that the external exclosure is killing my hard drives? I don't have another computer to put the hard drives in to determine if they are really dead. I hope not, this starting to cost me a lot of money. The hard drives I've had in the past have lasted for years.
I'm not sure what to do now. Should I buy a new external case? I really need something external to easily use a backup device for both my desk top and my laptop. Note that this external drive is "gently" used. I do not carry it around. I leave it in one location for backups.
signed stumped,
- Glo
