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Installing OS X on an external HD. Need help please.
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<blockquote data-quote="jobborrow" data-source="post: 983666" data-attributes="member: 51642"><p>Seagate drive is good, much more quiet, however, heads still park (albeit silently) way too much, I would say my initial tests suggest that they park about 30% less than the WD drive did. </p><p></p><p>In the end I have got hdapm to work with this drive (it wouldn't work with the WD drive) and I haven't used a launchdeamon to run it, I'm just running it from terminal on start up with :hdapm disk0 max etc. I'm not 100% over the moon about this, but I can't bear to think of 82 load cycles in a hour of web browsing or idling..... </p><p></p><p>So that's the update, guess I'm relatively happy.</p><p></p><p>Drawntothemagic, what did you do/decide in the end (since this was your thread)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jobborrow, post: 983666, member: 51642"] Seagate drive is good, much more quiet, however, heads still park (albeit silently) way too much, I would say my initial tests suggest that they park about 30% less than the WD drive did. In the end I have got hdapm to work with this drive (it wouldn't work with the WD drive) and I haven't used a launchdeamon to run it, I'm just running it from terminal on start up with :hdapm disk0 max etc. I'm not 100% over the moon about this, but I can't bear to think of 82 load cycles in a hour of web browsing or idling..... So that's the update, guess I'm relatively happy. Drawntothemagic, what did you do/decide in the end (since this was your thread)? [/QUOTE]
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