Dead hard drive? [no fix possible - discarded]

[The Chief]

Well, it's not solved, but the drive is well and truly dead. 

No amount of freezing, tapping, shaking, bouncing, etc., causes any computer to even see it.  So, I've  lost maybe a months worth of emails (since the last backup). 

Probably telling me I should backup more often...   

[Yankee]

Well, it's not solved, but the drive is well and truly dead. 

No amount of freezing, tapping, shaking, bouncing, etc., causes any computer to even see it.  So, I've  lost maybe a months worth of emails (since the last backup). 

Probably telling me I should backup more often...   

If I lose something it's only one month's worth.   Backing up once per month.

[The Chief]

I think I shall attempt to do a weekly for email (the Thunderbird profile) and monthly for everything else.  I don't keep my external drive hooked up all the time, so it will be kind of a hassle.  I'll just have to get used to it.

[Xenaflux]

Probably telling me I should backup more often...  

or use Gmail.
You can keep up to 10Gb worth of mail !

I don't keep my external drive hooked up all the time, so it will be kind of a hassle.

Here in Thailand, 16Gb Kingston USB stick cost $10 ( or less )
hint hint hint

[The Chief]

Here in Thailand, 16Gb Kingston USB stick cost $10 ( or less )

There's a thought - especially for the Thunderbird profile...   [Chief wanders off looking for cheap inexpensive flash drives....]

[Xenaflux]

Chief wanders off looking for cheap inexpensive flash drives....]

Don't..........................
Here we have cheap brand names that you people never have heard of 
They are all cheap.
They are also UN-reliable
All seem to work well in Winders, but I have come across some of them, and I have 2, they don't want to be seen by Linux
( and NO, I am not going into discovering why......again.    )

Taken into consideration the limited amount of read and write the flash drive is going to perform, it should last 10 years.
Now $15 for 10 years isn't that much.
Buy a good one, not a cheap one

See you

[T6]

i already used 3 or 4 of those flash drive units for work and study,real hard use

i wouldn't trust on them for anything important, i have break 3 already in multiple ways, by damaging them or by using them until i see unexplainable data loss

i still recommend a hard disk on a external enclosure, alot more reliable and with considerably bigger space to store more files