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.