Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Question regarding the external drive... The hard drive in my iMac went into retirement and luckily i had it backed up to a partition on a external drive so i'm booting the os from the external drive instead. Is this external drive problem happening if your data files are stored on it and the os is on the internal drive? And are these problems being caused by iTunes creating it's gapless files...
Most folks who have reported hard drive failure have an external drive with the music on it and boot from an internal HD with the OS.
Some folks have reported internal drives with both the music and the OS together.
Granted these are a handful of people who seem to have a few things in common:
(1) Older computers or external hard drives
(2) Lots of music (say over 10,000 songs)
Therefore, if you have a lot of music and an old computer, back up your tunes first, or skip the Gapless check by playing a song when iTunes opens and tells you that it's doing the check.
Computers don't like to check massive amounts of data (say 20gb) while being interrupted. That's why Windows has to restart Defrag and Disc check so often - because when it's interrupted it lets go of what it's doing. It doesn't appear that iTunes is doing that and it's over working a lot of older drives.