I recently travelled to north america with my laptop (brand new internal 2.5" drive) and a brand new external 2.5" drive.
I went through airport scanners a number of times, and both hard drives have failed.
PB Tech have replaced the internal drive (after much 'debate'), after which I discovered the external drive has also failed. At least I won't have to fight PB tech over that one , it is quite obvious, I cannot even format this drive.
This really annoys me, as I was backing up data (Pics and video) from the internal to the external drive but I lost both drives.
(I was able to recover most files albeit some with corruption using R-Studio , this is the best recovery software I have ever used)
This seems a bizarre occurrence to have 2 new drives fail simultaneously. I had not dropped any of the drives, the only things I can think of is unlucky coincidence or the drives were corrupted by the airport scanning machines.
Might have to move to a triple backup system in future .... doh!!!