I have a OWC Mercury Elite AL Pro. I've had it for a few weeks and everything has been great. I installed a WD 1.5 TB Cavier Green that used to be in my old Ministack V3 into the Elite.
I decided I wanted to run Time Machine on the WD drive in the Elite. I transferred my data to another drive, formatted the Elite, and partitioned it into 1 TB and 0.5 TB. I then returned my data to the big partition.
Once the transfers were done and the Elite could rest, it started making some weird sounds when not reading/writing data. It's a constantly repeating cycle and it's much louder than the drive operating normally. Nothing is being written to the drive and no programs are running. Spotlight indexing has been blocked and I'm not using Time Machine.
I thought the partition may have caused the problem, so I went back to 1 partition but the problem remains. When copying data to/from the Elite it is as quiet and seems to run fine.
Any ideas as to why my drive is constantly working when not being accessed? Is it a coincidence that the sounds started soon after a big run of transfers? (e.g. is my drive failing after some hard work?)
Thanks
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