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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: External HD polling?
Date: 30 Aug 2015 06:04:47 GMT
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On 2015-08-30, Henry <henry999@eircom.net> wrote:
> I'm running the latest Yosemite on my late '14 5K iMac. I've got a 2 TB
> external USB 3 with one large partition for Time Machine and one small
> partition with a plain vanilla system, also 10.10.5, for (very rare)
> alternative boot-up purposes.
>
> The external drive is audible; not problematically so but you hear it
> when it spins up. What I would like to know is _why_ it spins up.
>
> Even when the iMac is booted 'normally' from its internal SSD, there are
> frequent times, in-between and unrelated-to any Time Machine cycles,
> when the external HD comes to life.
>
> Is there anything I can look at in Console (or ???) that will tell me
> what is causing this?

Spotlight is probably indexing the volume.

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