So, my well used WD 160GB portable drive started clicking. I heavily use it to store my web development files and when the clicks started, I became very nervous. So, I did a search for a new drive. Well, as I often do, I impulsively bought the WD My Password SE 1TB drive from Amazon thinking, wow that much space, so portable and decently priced! (It was as much as my 160GB I bought two years ago). I began nightly backups (wonderful tool rsync is) until my new drive arrived.
It finally arrived yesterday. I was so impressed with my slick, little drive with so much data capacity. I quickly reformatted (to ext3 of course) and synced my files from the old to the new. Then I had the wake up call. I picked up the drive to move some cables around and bam, connection was lost and bye bye all unsaved data. What the crap? Turns out, the slightest little touch of the cable causes it to lose connection, and I do mean the slightest touch. Wouldn't mind it so much if this wasn't a portable drive. Who designed this thing? They should be fired.