{"id":10,"date":"2009-03-01T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T11:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-03-01T12:11:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T11:11:21","slug":"western-digital-elements-external-hard-drive-power-supply-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital Elements external hard drive power supply dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s certainly not been a great week for hardware for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Now the USB 2 Western Digital Elements (1Tb) external drive that I had hooked up to my Linux box quit on me.\u00c2\u00a0 Appears to be the power brick &#8212; disconnecting the enclosure and unplugging\/plugging the brick causes the green light to light briefly, then fade away &#8212; although I haven&#8217;t actually tested the pins to prove that they&#8217;re dead and it&#8217;s not the enclosure itself.\u00c2\u00a0 The thing is only about 6 months old; what a crock.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the failure for these drives is endemic.\u00c2\u00a0 See, for instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Rusty Lime WD Elements Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rustylime.com\/show_article.php?id=1189\" target=\"_blank\">Comments under the Rusty Lime WD Elements review<\/a> &#8212; lots of folks with the same problem<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Fixya.com WD Elements Problems\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fixya.com\/support\/p511983-western_digital_250gb_elements_external\" target=\"_blank\">A host of complaints at Fixya.com<\/a> &#8212; likewise<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.whirlpool.net.au\/forum-replies-archive.cfm\/1090426.html\" target=\"_blank\">Me-toos on the Whirlpool Forums<\/a> &#8212; and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The consensus appears to be that WD can&#8217;t\/won&#8217;t replace the power supplies without, at best, a hassle.\u00c2\u00a0 While Asian Power Devices appears to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apd.com.tw\/contents\/products_01.asp?majcidx=1\" target=\"_blank\">manufacture a compatible brick<\/a>, I think I&#8217;m just going to go get a new SATA enclosure (or maybe just remount the drive internally) &#8230; which is too bad, as I liked the rubber feet on the WD enclosure.\u00c2\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow &#8230; given the similar problems others have had, and the minimal opportunities to rectify the problem, I&#8217;d stay away from these drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s certainly not been a great week for hardware for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Now the USB 2 Western Digital Elements (1Tb) external drive that I had hooked up to my Linux box quit on me.\u00c2\u00a0 Appears to be the power brick &#8212; disconnecting the enclosure and unplugging\/plugging the brick causes the green light to light briefly, then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=10\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Western Digital Elements external hard drive power supply dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}