[ale] external hard drive

[Greg Freemyer]

Is it a green drive?

Ie. To save power, by design it powers off after a few milliseconds of non-use?

I have seen lots of discussion of the problems they have under linux,
but I don't recall the details.

Fyi: if you don't address the issue, the drive will die early if it is
green drive.

Greg

On 1/27/10, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> So, I picked up a 1.5 tb external drive.  I pushed a bunch of data off
> to it all went well.  Later, I connect the drive up to a couple of
> different boxes.  Each time, the drive is giving that really scary
> clicking sound you dread.  I can access the data fine, I don't see any
> errors being produced.  This thing is brand new, what is with this?  Any
> reason anyone can come up with why this drive would be making these noises?
>
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