| Re: 3 x Western Digital 1TB My Book external USB hard drives |
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Group: uk.adverts.computer · Group Profile
Author: Simon FinniganSimon Finnigan Date: Sep 17, 2008 00:07
"Palindrome" privacy.net> wrote in message
news:gapfse$6c9$1@aioe.org...> Simon Finnigan wrote:
>>> Female logic would be, it has apparently been owned and used by a man,
>>> so has probably been dropped a few times, left in a train or taxi and
>>> reclaimed form lost property once or twice, half the screws will be
>>> missing and those that aren't will be the wrong ones and half of those
>>> will be cross threaded, it will either be filled with porn or Trident
>>> targetting..etc.. :)
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>> I`m actually very good with removable drives - these came out the box and
>> have been on a desk ever since, with nice big gaps to allow for plenty of
>> air flow. The only portable drive I have that gets moved is a 60 gig USB
>> bus powered drive that I use to back up my files, and leave in a work
>> locker to ensure its safety. :-)
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> Sorry, I do apologise - the above was only intended as a humorous aside
> and not intended to suggest in any way that *you* would drop drives, leave
> them on trains, etc and certainly wouldn't be selling drives full of
> secrets of any kind, or even have access to secrets of any kind, or even
> know anyone with secrets.. Phew.
I do actually have access to secret information, but there ain`t no way i`d
think of taking it out the office, ever, nor putting it on my drives :-)
I know you wheren`t aiming that at me, i`ve seen some people treat external
drives appallingly, and then act all surprised when it dies on them. Not
me, if for no other reason than 3TB of files is a lot to lose for
mistreating the drives the files are on :-)
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