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.