My external hard drive, a German-made (purchased in The Netherlands) Trekstor, has been giving me a lot of grief lately. To start, I didn't finally make the plunge to buy a hard drive until I was in Europe (thinking I was going to live there indefinitely), so upon moving back I already had to deal with using a power adapter. Then, a couple months into being home, I somehow managed to irreparably bend one of the pin connectors for the power supply, thereby making it impossible for me to turn the unit on. This problem was only ascerbated by the fact that Trekstor took the better part of three months or so to finally get my replacement part to me (which happened only recently).
So, after that I thought I was in the clear, but today I dropped the unit a couple feet from my desk to my fairly-heavy carpet in what appeared to be a generally mild fall, but now for some reason my Mac won't recognize that the hard drive is plugged in at all! Ugh.
I know most people just use their external hard drives for backup purposes, but I use mine as my only non-iPod source of my iTunes library (i.e. I don't have another copy on my computer itself), so whenever I lose my hard drive, I also lose my ability to listen to music on my computer and my ability to update my iPod the way I prefer.
What a mess...hopefully Trekstor will be better about getting in touch with me this time...
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