collegeitdept wrote:… If it's the USB controller... can I break open the case and take out the hard drive and buy a eSATA to USB converter? …
I thought of something like that a few pages back, but said nothing because the thing I had in mind – a docking station - might only add to frustration, if you spend money on one then find it not completely reliable.
(The model that I purchased, identical to one that's used at my office, I found too troublesome for most purposes. At first I thought it was just me or my Mac, or the disks that I was trying to use with the station. But a few weeks later at the office, other people (users of Windows etc.) were terribly critical of the same model. So it wasn't just me.)
… last month before the drive had problems that power to the outlet went out (power socket controlled by a light switch) while copying a large file to the drive. …
That's very useful to know – thanks. The on-disk format of ZFS should be resilient to such things. So I question whether the drive and disk are resilient to power losses such as that.
Did the drive
ever work after that loss of power whilst writing?
Is that power supply a lighting circuit?
Might there sometimes be power
surges?