Hi Philippe Not really sure if this is relevant to your problem. I purchased a 3TB time capsule for my iMac a few years ago, but could never get it going and thought it was in conflict with my other time capsule which backs up my old MacPro. A tech had a look at it yesterday and said the hard drive was not working. I did have a spare 1TB hard drive which he used to replace the time capsule one, so now that is happily working now. The failed hard drive was a Seagate.
Personally, I never purchase Western Digital external drives, as a friend of mine had two of these that failed. I usually purchase the Toshiba or Transcend ones which I’ve never had a problem with and some of these are at least 4 years old. I use these to back up and store files. Cheers Jewels > On 13 Mar 2020, at 1:08 am, Philippe Chaperon <laut...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Dear WAMUG’ers, > > I use an external disc drive to which I get Time Machine to save its backups. > I have however had troubles with different drives to mount on the desktop, > and thus TM being unable to do its backups. Running Disk Utility to ‘Repair’ > the disc, it reported unable to repair. I tried TechTool Pro 12 which also > reported being unable to repair. > > Disk Utility did show the external drive, but due to the fsck–hfs process > running in the background, I suspect trying to repair the Backup drive used > by TM, the drive was ‘greyed -out’ and I could not eject the drive. > > This is now the 4th Western Digital Drive which encountered this problem on 2 > different iMacs, used exclusively by Time Machine. Every time I tried to > reformat the drives concerned, whenever DiskUtil could do it, but the problem > of not mounting up occurred again. > > I cannot believe that WD drives could be so unreliable as to fail in > sometimes less that 7 or 8 months! The last one to ‘die’ is a 6TB My Book > purchased about 8 or 9 months ago. I am now wondering whether TM is the > culprit? To note that I have 2 other external HD connected to my iMac used to > save some of my heavy files - mostly photos and books, and they have not > shown any sign of corruption or of failing (as yet!) and have been in use for > a few years now. By the way, all the external drives are connected via USB. > > I would appreciate any views on this matter. Do I have to purchase another > 6TB drive, and if so what are the reliable brands out there? > > Many thanks. > > Keep safe and have a great night. > > Philippe C. > Philippe dit la Grenouille ...🐸 > iMac mid 2010 > 20GB RAM > High Sierra v. 10.13.6 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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