SPlog

I had a problem with my Seagate portable hard drive. For over 3 years now, I’ve owned a 320 GB portable hard drive that I always carry in my laptop case. I’ve used it for just about everything. At one time it held all my music because my old laptop could only fit 160GB on it. It stores my digital movies, and all my archived projects from work. I have school homework on it, as well as church documents.

While trying get some taekwondo clips of it, I was interrupted with loud beeping noises, followed by the drive losing power and shutting off. I looked it all over, and it looked okay, so I plugged it in again. It started right up, but then died again. I fiddled with it for about 10 minutes and found that the pins on the usb connecter had gone bad, and the only way to get it to connect was to slightly bend the usb cord and hold it against the drive. I got it running, and decided to back up all the files onto my new laptop… Only one problem… I had over 300 GB of files on the drive, and the transfer time was estimated to be 3 hours.

It was already 1am, but I really needed those files. So I sat there grasping a firm hold on the cable, careful not to move it too much. I watched a few Netflix TV shows on my tablet to pass the time. Finally at around 3-3:300am the files were all transferred to my laptop. I let go of the cable, trying to relieve my cramped hand, and immediately the drive died, giving up its final beeps of despair. I slowly crawled over to my bed and fell fast asleep, wishing I would somehow get more than 3 hours of sleep.