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External HDDs working furiously, but did not task them with anything?...
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<blockquote data-quote="jman995x" data-source="post: 1878795" data-attributes="member: 58170"><p>I literally store thousands of photos from my travels with my GF (for safe keeping).</p><p>I turn the disk on about once a month, transfer over the photos from that month, then turn it off.</p><p></p><p>However, there are times when I'll mount it to grab a photo, and then won't need it for anything else. Or, I'll search for a photo name, find it, but then leave the finder window open and go do something else.</p><p>Meanwhile, the thing will whir and R/W, CONSTANTLY, for HOURS...and I haven't asked it to do ANYTHING.</p><p></p><p>Imagine you plug in your blender to make a smoothie.</p><p>You make the smoothie...takes all of about a minute.</p><p>You turn the blender off (ie: you're not using it anymore).</p><p>You leave your blender plugged in.</p><p>The blender turns itself on and runs for HOURS, without you touching it, or pressing any buttons.</p><p></p><p>It's annoying to hear this thing "crunching" whatever it is doing like the "WOPR" computer in the movie "War Games".</p><p></p><p>If Spotlight IS indexing it, it would be nice if there were a simple way to find out / something in Activity Monitor that would show/tell what certain Ext. HDD's are working on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jman995x, post: 1878795, member: 58170"] I literally store thousands of photos from my travels with my GF (for safe keeping). I turn the disk on about once a month, transfer over the photos from that month, then turn it off. However, there are times when I'll mount it to grab a photo, and then won't need it for anything else. Or, I'll search for a photo name, find it, but then leave the finder window open and go do something else. Meanwhile, the thing will whir and R/W, CONSTANTLY, for HOURS...and I haven't asked it to do ANYTHING. Imagine you plug in your blender to make a smoothie. You make the smoothie...takes all of about a minute. You turn the blender off (ie: you're not using it anymore). You leave your blender plugged in. The blender turns itself on and runs for HOURS, without you touching it, or pressing any buttons. It's annoying to hear this thing "crunching" whatever it is doing like the "WOPR" computer in the movie "War Games". If Spotlight IS indexing it, it would be nice if there were a simple way to find out / something in Activity Monitor that would show/tell what certain Ext. HDD's are working on. [/QUOTE]
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