Bad Micro B/USB wire? Help!

Wel, my new cable arrived and that seems to have been the originating problem. The other cable, being flaky and causing the drive to go on and off, corrupted the drive. Now I’m waiting on a tree day excursion with a recovery tool attempting to retreive my data. If the cables they sell are as good as this one I would need multiple drives just to back up one to make sure I have a good backup! Oh Well, that’s probably why we have 40 terabytes of drive space on multiple mirrored servers at work to make sure we don’t loose 5 terabytes of information.