Hi Philippe Although I have never used a Seagate drive, I tend to avoid them. Because in the past I have periodically read and heard bad things about their reliability and customer support.
I have mainly used WD or Toshiba in the past (without any issues). More recently have been using a Samsung SSD for my monthly safe backup. Officeworks have had them at a great price for a couple of months. My 500GB Samsung SSD cost $134.00. From memory I think even the 1TB was a reasonable price too. > On 13 Mar 2020, at 1:28 am, Julie Bedford <jew...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > 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 >> <mailto: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 >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > > -- 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> Regards, Stephen Chape
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