I don't use the built-in server + USB drive with my Touch. For a lot of
reasons I prefer using a separate external server, which I put in a
different room. Most of those who use the built-in server recommend
using an external USB hard drive _with_its_own_power_source_, rather
than one that is powered from the USB bus. The Touch provides the
amount of power required by the USB specification, but a lot of
portable USB drives require more power than that. 

As for the intensive disk activity, that should only occur when TinySBS
(the built-in server software) is scanning your music collection. It
should only need to scan when (a) you are first setting up the SB, (b)
you add new tracks, or (c) you ask it to scan. Is the disk activity
you're seeing correlated with any of these?


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