Community Matters

Turns out that today Seagate acknowledged that there is a problem with their FreeAgent drives going to sleep. The suggested workaround? Attach the drive to a Windows machine, install the Windows driver, open the Seagate Tools app and adjust the drive sleep interval to “never”.

Besides being highly inconvenient to have to do this – what do you do if you don’t have a Windows computer?

I still recommend staying away from these drives, especially when planning to use them with a TiVoHD. My sub-30-dollar external enclosure works brilliantly with the “liberated” drive that I extracted from the FreeAgent.