Hi Chris, Its not just the noise, when I do a copy from my mac's drive to the lacie external the copy rate is slower than it used to be. I just thought I might have better luck with a NAS. Jeff
On 4/3/15, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know about the NAS part but weird noises isn't always a for sure > indicator. My old Mac tower has three hard drives in it and they have > made all kinds of weird noises but they keep on going. Depending on your > enclosure, it could just be the fan. For internal drives you can check > the SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) status of > your drive to find out if it thinks it's about to die either in terminal: > > diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART > > which should say "Verified". You can get that same info from Disk > Utility sometimes after selecting a drive (not the volume within a > drive) and then navigate to the bottom of the window where it has all > the info like name and capacity. I say sometimes because sometimes it's > there and sometimes not. The terminal command always seems to work. > > That said, external drives don't seem to work with this but there are > tools you can install to do this such as Smart Monitoring Tools although > not all enclosures support this: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/ > > More info about SMART is here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T. > > Checking on this has saved my bacon more than once. > > CB > > On 4/3/15 6:05 AM, jeffrey greene wrote: >> Hi, Ok first sorry for the long post! I’ve had bad luck with external hard >> drives. My 3.5 year old lacie 4tb thunderbolt is making strange noises. >> Figures, its 6 months out of warranty. So, I was considering getting a NAS >> drive. So here are my questions: >> 1 which brands do you guys recommend? >> 2 which brand is easiest to setup using VO on the mac? >> 3 some NAS drives advertize personal cloud functions. Is this important? >> 4 What capacity do you think I should get? I heard something a long time >> ago that for example an 8tb nas doesn’t have the full 8tb available. >> Thanks, Jeff >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
