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Discussion by the same author ... The Impact Of Tubing Sizes

In the market for a SSD for a Dell Mini 9. Can anyone confirm if the Super Talent FEM32GFDL Half Mini 2 PCIe SSD supports the Windows 7 Trim Command?

+1 Stability

"Dual" and "Quad" bay external enclosures are quite common ... don't recall seeing a "Tri" bay enclosure. Did a quick scan of "the egg" and found the following "Quad" bay enclosures ... Aluratek CyClone ACQES350F, AMS DS-2340SES, AMS DS-2350S,AMS VENUS ES5 DS-315SES, Galaxy METAL GEAR 4500M...

Agree ... Seagate should recover the data for you ... the link was a last resort.

Similar to "Shadow Copy"?

+1 Yes Plug that into a properly sized UPS and you have your power covered. :D

Might want to consider a different power supply ... least review the comments and recommnedations here.

As I recall, it's been awhile, turning off AAM shouldn't generate a constant whine ... just increase noise during access.

Only thing that comes to mind is AAM (Automatic Acoustic Management) which reduces noise at the expense performance ... is that what you tweaked?

There are know issues with the firmware on some 7200.11 drives ... go to the Seagate Website and check to see if you drive is effected ... if so, you can attempt to contact Seagate to see if they will "fix your bricked drive" (IOW, recover your data). As a last resort, you might take try ...

Also could be a bad cable or inadequate power supply.

Would recommend using the ISO of Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS

You should be able to format the drive from the command line using DISKPART ... C:\Windows\system32>diskpart DISK PART> list disk DISKPART> select disk n (where n is the number of the thumb drive found via list disk) DISKPART> clean DISKPART> create partition primary DISKPART>...