On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 07:02 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan writes: > > > The latest drive is a replacement given to me by Seagate; they said that > > the > > drive had failed and had to be replaced, which they did, since it was still > > > > under warranty. It's not exactly new by refurbished. It started to beep > > after > > being used for about 4 days. > > > > > > Does anyone have an idea what's going on or how to prevent it? > > The fact that this supposedly happens with drives from different > manufacturers suggests that the problem is not caused by the drives > themselves. How are you connecting these USB drives, into the system itself, > or via the USB hub. That's the only common factor, so that would be a far > more likely cause of this, and the physical proximity just leads you to > believe that it's coming from the USB drives.
The drives are connected directly to the computer via a USB link. I have suspected that the problem is related to my system, however Todd Chester in another reply to my posting says that these cheap drives are not to be trusted. I'm going to take his advice and build my own box.
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