<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 17, 2014, at 12:00 AM, Grant Bowman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">My new friend who is trying Ubuntu with a disk from Lyz (thanks Lyz) just sent me an email. An external hard drive Seagate (1TB, model #: srd0sp0, newegg carries them for $79) with USB interface is not mounting automatically. When plugged into the MacBook Pro computer a slight clicking sound is heard, then it gets quiet and the light starts blinking.<div> <br></div><div>I don't know how much travel this drive has done. Some person on the internet took theirs apart: <a href="http://stx.lithium.com/t5/Backup-Plus-and-Seagate-Slim/Backup-Plus-Blinking-Light/td-p/176962" target="_blank">http://stx.lithium.com/t5/Backup-Plus-and-Seagate-Slim/Backup-Plus-Blinking-Light/td-p/176962</a> We will try rebooting and mounting on other computers and try to see the partitions and filesystems tomorrow. Perhaps the moral of the story is to buy Western Digital or another manufacturer? Other thoughts?</div> <div><br></div><div>Thanks for ignoring this post or redirecting me to a more appropriate place if you think it's off-topic.</div><div><br></div><div>Grant</div></div></blockquote>The following study suggests the ranking from most reliable to least is...</div><div>1. Hitachi</div><div>2. Western Digital</div><div>3. Seagate</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drives">http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drives</a></div><div><br></div><div>I now routinely use about ten drives and over the last few years I've been disappointed in Seagate and stopped buying them in favor of WD.</div><div>Some of the Seagate external drives seemed to have an autonomous shutdown function when not in active use that I could not override with Linux or OS X. The drive would unmount.</div><div><br></div><br><div> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Mark Weisler tel. 408.568.1229<br>PGP Key ID 68E462B6<br>PGP Key fingerprint 87D5 A77B FC47 3CC3 DFF0 586D 23FF F8B4 68E4 62B6</div></div> </div> <br></body></html>