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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1590844" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Don't bother with that software, and expect a short life span for that drive. I had an older model and it went belly up right after the warranty expired. Biggest problem I think these have is no active cooling. I'm convinced that any 3.5" drive running at 7200 rpm won't withstand extended activity unless there's a fan to keep its temperature down. It doesn't help that it's a Seagate, and <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089464/three-year-27-000-drive-study-reveals-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-makers.html" target="_blank">Seagate's drives are pretty unreliable these days</a> vs WD and Hitachi.</p><p></p><p>What you might want to do is use a SMART monitoring tool. These normally only work with internal drives, but there's <a href="https://github.com/kasbert/OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver" target="_blank">an open source driver</a> that enables SMART monitoring on some externals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1590844, member: 38864"] Don't bother with that software, and expect a short life span for that drive. I had an older model and it went belly up right after the warranty expired. Biggest problem I think these have is no active cooling. I'm convinced that any 3.5" drive running at 7200 rpm won't withstand extended activity unless there's a fan to keep its temperature down. It doesn't help that it's a Seagate, and [URL="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089464/three-year-27-000-drive-study-reveals-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-makers.html"]Seagate's drives are pretty unreliable these days[/URL] vs WD and Hitachi. What you might want to do is use a SMART monitoring tool. These normally only work with internal drives, but there's [URL="https://github.com/kasbert/OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver"]an open source driver[/URL] that enables SMART monitoring on some externals. [/QUOTE]
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