http://www.serenux.com/2008/11/mini-review-the-fujitsu-dynadisq-iii-320gb-usb-portable-external-hdd/ Life, the Universe and Ubuntu. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.serenux.com/2008/11/mini-review-the-fujitsu-dynadisq-iii-320gb-usb-portable-external-hdd/comment-page-1/#comment-685 Jaydear Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:37:00 +0000 http://www.serenux.com/?p=127#comment-685 I have three of these exact same drives. Two of them now fail to boot up (even with both cables connected). I've noticed that the LEDs on those two are dimmer than the good one. I took both drives out and connected them to eSATA sockets and they work just fine. This points to a failure in the little electronics package in the case. I suspect the voltage to the drive is low, but I have not measured it at this time. I would swap a naked drive into the one working case to see if it works in there, but I don't want to risk damaging the case electronics. So I have two naked drives that still work on SATA/eSATA and I am waiting for the last one still working on USB to fail, sigh. My rating: 3 out of 10 for reliability. Maybe a Samsung/ Seagate/ WD/ etc. would be a better choice next time. I have three of these exact same drives. Two of them now fail to boot up (even with both cables connected). I’ve noticed that the LEDs on those two are dimmer than the good one. I took both drives out and connected them to eSATA sockets and they work just fine. This points to a failure in the little electronics package in the case. I suspect the voltage to the drive is low, but I have not measured it at this time. I would swap a naked drive into the one working case to see if it works in there, but I don’t want to risk damaging the case electronics. So I have two naked drives that still work on SATA/eSATA and I am waiting for the last one still working on USB to fail, sigh. My rating: 3 out of 10 for reliability. Maybe a Samsung/ Seagate/ WD/ etc. would be a better choice next time.

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