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Jan 4, 2012 - 12:04 PM
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My WD was making really bad clicking noises and was super hot. The Seagate was making more noise than normal and was also super hot...
Clicking hard-drives are bad news. I had that happen to me, and it is the death rattle of a drive spinning and trying to find the information, but the disc is physically worn out. If you hear that, migrate data immediately to another drive.
Another tip I learned that may be obvious: don't leave your external drives plugged in all the time. Turn them on when you need them and, after you have checked that the data migration was successful, carefully eject the external drive from your desktop, power down and disconnect the power source. If the transformer light is on, it's always going to get warm, and no hard drive is immortal.
I had three Lacie drives appear to die over a couple of years, but when I got new power cables for each they powered up with all the data intact. Since then, I've treated them very carefully, and have nine external drives in rotation -- Lacie, Western Digital, iOmega, a couple of enclosures -- including a small Lacie Rugged 500GB portable, and one dedicated to Time Machine backups.
You can never have too much disc space!
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Another tip I learned that may be obvious: don't leave your external drives plugged in all the time. Turn them on when you need them and, after you have checked that the data migration was successful, carefully eject the external drive from your desktop, power down and disconnect the power source.
You means pull the plug from the socket? I can understand powering down being useful, but not why removing the plug is of use. Could you explain?
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Another tip I learned that may be obvious: don't leave your external drives plugged in all the time. Turn them on when you need them and, after you have checked that the data migration was successful, carefully eject the external drive from your desktop, power down and disconnect the power source.
You means pull the plug from the socket? I can understand powering down being useful, but not why removing the plug is of use. Could you explain?
Pull the USB plugs from the PC. You can leave the drives plugged into your outlet/power strip. As long as they aren't plugged into the PC, they won't suck power or heat up.
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Interesting. I leave my drives plugged into the power strip and they are never warm unless I plug them into the PC and fire up.
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May 1, 2016 - 7:37 PM
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Metryq
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Select the drive and "Get Info." If it is "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)," then the Windows computer will not recognize it without an extension, like Paragon's HFS+ for Windows.
If the external is formatted for FAT32 or ExFAT, often the default from the factory, then the drive will be recognized by both systems. Mac OS X can natively read NTFS, commonly used on Windows, but it cannot write to that file structure without an extension. (Again, see Paragon, or some other publisher.)
Other alternatives include "flash" media (SD cards and thumb drives), or networking. Unfortunately, Windows does not do "target mode."
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May 1, 2016 - 8:14 PM
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Solium
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Select the drive and "Get Info." If it is "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)," then the Windows computer will not recognize it without an extension, like Paragon's HFS+ for Windows.
If the external is formatted for FAT32 or ExFAT, often the default from the factory, then the drive will be recognized by both systems. Mac OS X can natively read NTFS, commonly used on Windows, but it cannot write to that file structure without an extension. (Again, see Paragon, or some other publisher.)
Other alternatives include "flash" media (SD cards and thumb drives), or networking. Unfortunately, Windows does not do "target mode."
Thxs for the help!
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