<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Tin whiskers?</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy)">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy)</a></span></div><div><font face=".HelveticaNeueUI"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font face=".HelveticaNeueUI"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">[Microscopic] dust getting places it shouldn't while the device is stored because of cheap manufacturing and loose tolerances? <br></span></font><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from my iPhone</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On Dec 13, 2012, at 11:31, Joshua Kramer <<a href="mailto:joskra42.list@gmail.com">joskra42.list@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>So as it turns out, the external enclosure in which I had my 500GB drive, is flaky.<br><br>I put the new 1TB drive in this enclosure to use as a backup drive. I put the old 500GB drive (that was giving me "can't read sector" I/O errors) on a small SATA-USB adapter I had. When I started copying from the old to the new, the new 1TB drive was giving all kinds of I/O errors.<br>
<br>I hung the 500GB drive off of an internal SATA interface of my PC, and I connected the 1TB drive to the SATA-USB adapter. Now, I am copying things over with no I/O errors.<br><br>What's interesting is, for the past 18 months or so I've kept this enclosure in a cool, dark closet... and I've only moved it once every 1-2 weeks to do backups. And I only plug it into a UPS-protected outlet.<br>
<br>So I wonder what, barring an external physical event, causes a transistor or two to work one day, and then the next, say, "you know what? I've had enough on/off cycles in my lifetime, I quit!"<br><br>Cheers,<br>
-JK<br>
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