Hi Chris, Ben, Ashley, and Others, I was going to respond that the most likely problem was either with your cables and/or connector ports (which is what I think Ashley means when she refers to the "rubbish drive enclosures"). You get this kind of false notification message of disc ejection when the contact through your USB or Firewire connection ports at either end of your connection is not solid, and it could be due to the quality of the port connections or of the cables. If you are going through some kind of hub, it could be the quality of the ports on the hub, too. However, I'm not certain that even the Western Digital drives Ashley recommends are immune to this. About a year and a half ago, in a discussion on the mac-access list, the list owner stated that his recent Western Digital drives had been coming in with underrated power supplies, and that he'd ended up having to buy replacement generic power supplies to get better performance due to failures. (This was in stark contrast to his Western Digital drives of a few years earlier, which he was entirely happy with. The comment was that there had been a marked drop in the quality of the power supplies and also, after he disassembled a drive that failed, in the connectors they were using.) Quite independently, just before this report, I'd bought a portable Western Digital Passport drive, and then returned it without using for refund based on reading the unusually high problem reports that were coming in. (Again, the earlier models of these drives did not have these problems). And when I spoke to an Apple store worker about a month later, it turned out that he had bought one of these drives and had already sent it in twice for problems. This is not to pick on Western Digital, which certainly has a reputation for better than average hard drives (or did), but I think you might want to closely follow current internet reports before buying hard drives. Also, sometimes you can sort things by putting the drives into a different enclosures. I've had good experiences with the Macally enclosures, but I haven't done this recently. Again, I'd head off and read the reviews from buyers at newegg.com and other sites before evaluating current enclosure quality.
HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jun 21, 2011, at 10:19, Ashley Cox wrote: > it's the rubbish drive enclosures they use. return it and get a wd. > > > On 21/06/2011 20:58, Ben J Bloomgren wrote: >> I just got a Seagate drive from BestBuy. I wasn't doing a darn thing with >> the drive, yet a notification arose saying that it's not wise to unplug a >> drive without safely ejecting it. Apparently Chris Gilland has also had this >> problem with specifically his Seagate drives. Has anybody had this problem? >> I am almost certain that it's not a defective drive being that someone else >> has also encountered it. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ben >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
