Loading...

Anyhow, hopefully it holds up a little better. Both of my 380 batteries are starting to bite the dust. They don't last pissing time anymore. But I've been using them for years, so you know, every day for years, they're bound to wear out. Anyhow, as you guys may know, yesterday, toward the end of the net, I started to have technical difficulties with my computer. The computer was freezing up, and I was having to reboot it multiple times and all that, only to figure out that the computer was trying to access my external hard drive, because it was said to do my time machine backups. For Mac, it's like snapshots of your computer so you can roll it back at any time. And because of that, it was trying to access the hard drive, and the hard drive wasn't working properly. So when it was trying to spin it up, it was freezing the computer. If I unplugged it, it was working fine. Then I plugged it back in, and then it was glitchy, and it was trying to show up, but it wouldn't. And then about an hour after the net, it just finally gave up the ghost. It would not cooperate anymore. And I called Western Digital, because it's under warranty, and they gave me two options. They said, you can send the drive back to us. We'll send you out a new one. Okay, that's all good. I like that option. However, I don't like the fact that six terabytes of my data is still trapped inside this thing. And I don't think it's the drive itself. I think it's the enclosure. It's the board. It's something with the enclosure, because the drive is still spinning up on the inside. I can hear it. It's whirring away like it's supposed to. But the LED on the front of this thing is just blink, blink, blink, blink, blink really fast. So it's telling me something's wrong. And I went through all the troubleshooting, tried a different cable, tried a different port, connected the drive to another computer. No go on any of that. So they gave me another option. They were like, well, you can give us a credit card number, and we can hold $200 plus the $25 Advanced RMAZ. And then you can, we'll send you the new drive first, and then you can pull the drive out of the other one and get your data back. But that's like $225 that they want to hold, or well, they want to keep $25 plus tax. Then they want to hold for up to a month $200 on my card. And I don't have that on my card that I can have held up for two months. I just don't, or a month, or possibly more. I just don't. So the data is gone. Bye bye. I'm waiting for them to send me the shipping label.