I’ve had a the drive named in the topic for just about exactly a year now and everything has worked fine until recently.
When the drive hasn’t been accessed for a while (like it’s in an idle mode or something) and i try to do something with the drive, there’s a strange “buzzing” sound for about one second and the computer freezes for about 5 seconds before i can access the drive just fine.
It’s some kind of electrical sound, and it sure doesn’t sound good.
The problem is similar to the one found in this thread:
A bit of an update anyway. Installed Hard Disk Sentinel to monitor my disks. They report no problem at all. It watches for spinning up errors (which i suspect my problem has something to do with, since it appears when the disk hasn’t been accessed for a while). But apparently while I have the program running it doesn’t let any of my disks go “idle”. So while i have it running, the problem doesn’t appear. Go figure.
Any recommendations on any other programs? Or anyone know what the problem might be?