So I pre-emptively contacted HGST Tech Support to verify that there would be no more monkey business with one of the newer He drives. of 2017, I'm again in need of more space and am opting to replace an internal 3TB drive with an HGST He10 drive. So no practical way of improving the situation. Hitachi Tech Support said that there was a newer F/W version but that it could only be installed in a Windows machine with an unusual, high-end graphic card in it (very odd), and I would have to erase the 4 TB or so worth of data I'd already copied to it in the process. OWC tech support claimed to not be aware of this issue (and still seems unaware of it two years later). During every cold start, however, the drive always mounts, so it's usable, just a pain. Every later version of OS X resulted in a non-mount. The He8 drive was perfectly consistent in not mounting during any Restart, except when using Snow Leopard. I added a pair of cheaper Seagate Archive 8 TB drives as external cloning drives for backup, one kept off site. In 2015 I purchased an HGST He8 drive, which I preferred on various grounds (reliability, efficiency) to the other 8TB options for an internal data drive in an Early 2009 Mac Pro (4,1).
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