Somehow, the time machine drive would still sleep everyday and freeze the mini, as a result. That was fine except if your mac goes to sleep, it will also hiberate this drive. I used an applet to constantly ping it so that it wouldn't sleep. With the updated firmware from Seagate, it takes about 15 min on inactivity. Now for the big problem: if the drive goes into hibernate, it will not wake up, freezing you computer and forcing a hard reboot.
The light on the bottom is anoying, but tollerable. It's fanless so no distraction when listening to music. I didn't have any problems with delay when I accessed data on the drive (iTunes library, movies, pictures). I bought two of these to house my media library and to serve as a backup drive for my Mac Mini in my living room. "Do not buy this drive if you use sleep/ hibernate on your mac. Specifically, there is an Amazon review by a guy who bought this drive for his Mac. I was interested in the Free Agent 2 TB HD, but there seems to be a problem with Free Agent drives and Macs. I never checked but I would hope that most external drive packages via USB or Firewire have the acoustic management settings set to quietest since by design they're not meant for performance (because of the USB or Firewire interface).
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If you're savvy enough figure out how to set the acoustic management setting you may be able to reduce some noise.
If you have a Seagate 1.5 TB drive make sure you check their website for FW upgrade based on your drive's S/N.Īll SATA drives should have acoustic management settings. The problem is that after x number of power cycles they turn in to a "brick". There are 1.5 TB Seagate desktop drives that have firmware issues. The black ones should be ok too but you don't need the extra speed and power consumption for audio files. They spin at 5400 rpm (vs 7200 rpm for most full size SATA drives) and by default have decent acoustic management.
The WD 2TB drives (green, not black) should be a good choice.
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