I recently bought a Seagate 500 GB hard drive on sale from Best Buy and a Vantec Nexstar 3 external enclosure. Installed the drive in the enclosure, attached it to my MacBook Pro, reformatted the drive, all fine. Then, as I prepared to begin copying files...knock...knock...knock. The drive wouldn't dismount, the system wouldn't shut down, what a mess.
I returned the drive to Best Buy and exchanged it with no problems. The question now is, is there something wrong with the enclosure? The knocking sound clearly involved a movable part, so it had to be coming from the drive itself--but could there have been something wrong with the enclosure that would have prompted the drive to start behaving this way? I don't want to put the new drive at risk unnecessarily.
I returned the drive to Best Buy and exchanged it with no problems. The question now is, is there something wrong with the enclosure? The knocking sound clearly involved a movable part, so it had to be coming from the drive itself--but could there have been something wrong with the enclosure that would have prompted the drive to start behaving this way? I don't want to put the new drive at risk unnecessarily.