Originally Posted by
johnw
Anyone have any ideas on anything else I should try with the Samsung 470? Keep in mind that Windows seems to be unstable when the Samsung is connected now when any program tries to write to the Samsung -- freezes and lockups. But it seems fine as long as there are only read requests sent to the Samsung.
My plan is to keep the drive unpowered now, and plug it in periodically (every few weeks or once a month) and try to verify the MD5 checksum on the 40GB static data file.