External HDD problem

[Labhras]

Hi all,

recently I've noticed that when connecting my external HDD (not my backup one) to my mac, it is very slow to eject and when I try to see subfolders of a folder it can get a few minutes to show them (true is that they're a lot of files, but I never had this problem before).

I had the "disk disconnected without ejecting first" warning a couple of times when I had left the disk connected for a long time without using it (I have the option to put disk to sleep after a set amount of time in preferences).
I might be wrong, but I think this slow reaction started to happen after the 10.9.5 update, but I'm not completely sure.

Just out of curiosity I ran DU on it and it says that the disk needs to be repaired.
Is it a disk problem or a mac one? If I repair it what will happen to the files on it?
It's a NTFS formatted drive.

 

[motrek]

Hi all,

recently I've noticed that when connecting my external HDD (not my backup one) to my mac, it is very slow to eject and when I try to see subfolders of a folder it can get a few minutes to show them (true is that they're a lot of files, but I never had this problem before).

I had the "disk disconnected without ejecting first" warning a couple of times when I had left the disk connected for a long time without using it (I have the option to put disk to sleep after a set amount of time in preferences).
I might be wrong, but I think this slow reaction started to happen after the 10.9.5 update, but I'm not completely sure.

Just out of curiosity I ran DU on it and it says that the disk needs to be repaired.
Is it a disk problem or a mac one? If I repair it what will happen to the files on it?
It's a NTFS formatted drive.

Hard to say, but if the disk has aggressive power management, this may be by design. I notice that my small external notebook drive often spins itself down (essentially turns itself off) if I haven't used it for a few minutes, and then when I try to do anything with it, it takes several seconds to spin back up.

 

[Labhras]

Hard to say, but if the disk has aggressive power management, this may be by design. I notice that my small external notebook drive often spins itself down (essentially turns itself off) if I haven't used it for a few minutes, and then when I try to do anything with it, it takes several seconds to spin back up.

Thing is, it's a very recent problem. I used to be able to connect the drive, and instantly have it working, or having it ejected in very few seconds.
Now I have to wait longer times for everything.