Seagate external BACKUP PLUS SLIM (ST500LT012)

[Menard]

Do you know how to disable the APM or something else causing suspends every minute ? Because it generates a lot of 193 attribute increase
Some source say 600 000 as the limit, I am at 1 178 000 and if possible I d like to keep it in its original enclosure.

[Zero Alpha]

You need to investigate why thats happening as thats not normal. Could be as simple as bad connector, cable or usb port can't support it.

[Menard]

I believe I forgot some important data here.
It is under Linux Mint and this external disk is used as root partition.
So with the default USB driver I had this behaviour and no access to SMART data and energy settings.
I ve then changed the driver for an old one and this last one give access to these features. I could then disable the APM in Disks (gnome-disk)
nb : gsmartcontrol seem to reset the APM to the default one

I wonder why I had not fixed this behaviour before ... I remember that for me this old driver was not very good in the data transfer rates (?)
so 3 years after it must have been improved I guess, and that's what can have fixed this.
1 178 708 head parkings later it is still alive
The 3 errors, happened before this "million"