A year ago, I bought a Seagate FreeAgent Desktop USB 2.0 external hard drive. The connections are completely wonky and will disconnect and reconnect spontaneously. This fucking sucks. The only way I can make it stay for a couple minutes is if 1) I make sure that no movement whatsoever will disturb the drive or the cables, even air currents and 2) I wedged a couple Post-it Note stacks under the external drive's USB connection in order to keep it steady. This enclosure has to go.
My drive has a 5 year warranty, and I can get it replaced. However, I'd have to back up the data on the drive (I'd have to buy another drive to put it on), send it in, and get the same freaking drive that might give me the exact same problems. Honestly, I should have bought a Western Digital MyBook instead. However, I'm leaning towards buying a separate USB enclosure, cracking open the Seagate FreeAgent enclosure, and transplanting. However, this would lost my 5 year warranty on the drive itself. Any advice?




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