Hi everyone,
I’m experiencing an intermittent issue with my external hard drive setup on my iMac and wanted to see if anyone has run into this specific behavior or can confirm my theory.
The Setup:
Host: iMac pro 2017
Enclosure: Ugreen External Enclosure supports speeds of usb3.2
Drive Inside: Mechanical HDD (Spinning platters) western digital blue 2.5”
Cable: High-speed Ugreen USB 3.2 Gen 2 Power Delivery rated data cable) connected directly to the iMac.
Drive Format: APFS (Encrypted)
The Symptom:
When doing high load coping of files over to this external drive, the hard drive emits short electronic beep sounds. The file transfer does not fail, macOS doesn't throw any error codes, and the drive doesn't unmount, it just makes that sudden beeps and carries on.
What has been ruled out:
1 Low-quality cable/port bottleneck: The cable is a high-speed USB 3.2 data cable connected directly to the Mac's high-speed port, so it isn't a basic USB 2.0 power starvation issue. I tried another cable that came with the enclosure, same issue.
2 Total drive failure: The drive health seems stable overall, and the issue is strictly isolated to the heavy file transfers.
My questions:
1 Has anyone else experienced that beep from an APFS Encrypted mechanical HDD?
2 is there firmware adjustments for Ugreen enclosures to mitigate this?
3 Why these sounds are happening and what is the solution and if there is any risk from the current states.
Thanks in advance for any insights!
I’m experiencing an intermittent issue with my external hard drive setup on my iMac and wanted to see if anyone has run into this specific behavior or can confirm my theory.
The Setup:
Host: iMac pro 2017
Enclosure: Ugreen External Enclosure supports speeds of usb3.2
Drive Inside: Mechanical HDD (Spinning platters) western digital blue 2.5”
Cable: High-speed Ugreen USB 3.2 Gen 2 Power Delivery rated data cable) connected directly to the iMac.
Drive Format: APFS (Encrypted)
The Symptom:
When doing high load coping of files over to this external drive, the hard drive emits short electronic beep sounds. The file transfer does not fail, macOS doesn't throw any error codes, and the drive doesn't unmount, it just makes that sudden beeps and carries on.
What has been ruled out:
1 Low-quality cable/port bottleneck: The cable is a high-speed USB 3.2 data cable connected directly to the Mac's high-speed port, so it isn't a basic USB 2.0 power starvation issue. I tried another cable that came with the enclosure, same issue.
2 Total drive failure: The drive health seems stable overall, and the issue is strictly isolated to the heavy file transfers.
My questions:
1 Has anyone else experienced that beep from an APFS Encrypted mechanical HDD?
2 is there firmware adjustments for Ugreen enclosures to mitigate this?
3 Why these sounds are happening and what is the solution and if there is any risk from the current states.
Thanks in advance for any insights!
