Originally Posted by
falconea
...We went to the bank vault and collected the hard drive there, and it doesn't start up.
My experience has been that Iomega drives are most reliable. Lacie, Simpletech, some of the others, seem to be more into aesthetics than reliability.
Hard disks need to be run frequently, but three months of non-use should not have been a problem. When I've had disks that won't start up in the past, repeated power cycling has occasionally gotten them to work.