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    Have you thought about cooling the drive? Commented Dec 28, 2016 at 4:46
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    How full is the drive? If the drive is more than 50% full it is likely better to just mirror the failing drive first and then only start to deal with more complicated stuff on the mirror. Commented Dec 28, 2016 at 10:19
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    @AEonAX: While a cool (sic!) out-of-the-box idea, I wouldn't recommend this: you're putting additional thermal stress on the device, and it might fail completely. Commented Dec 29, 2016 at 15:32
  • This feels like the geek's equivalent of a first world problem. I have it too, my USB dock gets overloaded by the huge backup job. Commented Mar 5, 2021 at 23:36