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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1924518" data-attributes="member: 190607">My experience is that cheap Seagate-branded and Western Digital-branded *external* (I'm not talking about internal drive mechanisms) rotating disk hard drives, tend to be terrible POS's.  No cooling, either no power supply or an inadequate power supply.My contacts in the hard drive recovery industry tell me that they see a ton of these that have failed.  Apparently they are made as cheaply as possible and with virtually no quality control.If you have one, you especially don't want to attach it to a USB hub, you want to attach it directly to your Mac.  Attaching one to a laptop may be just as bad as attaching it to a hub, depending on the year and model of your laptop.</blockquote>