Hiya... Has anyone ever had an external hard drive that while scrubbing or exporting to tape goes inactive, or into sleep mode, then turns right back on in a few second? If so, what brand and how did you remedy the situation. Thanks!

I'm afraid those are the first signs of a drive on it's last leg... time to transfer all your data to another one and retire it.

Problem is, this is a brand new Seagate. The tech had me ship it back and they sent me a new one. The replacement is doing the exact same thing... and on multiple OS installs.