I have an extreme Pro 2TB but terrified of data loss so recently got a T7 shield and using it on my MacbookPro. This is the 2nd attempt and the drive just got corrupted because while transferring files, Finder crashed/lagged and i had to force shut it down. And then, I wasn’t able to eject the T7 Shield so i had to force eject and then it wiped the T7 after having just transferred. To be clear i was in proceess transfering from Extreme to T7

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Does anyone have any other recommendations? I am done with the T7 and wasting time trying to get it to work without losing data

  • binaryriot@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you improperly eject a disk while the filesystem is in a flux state it doesn’t matter which disk you use you’re very likely encounter that issue again. More so with some filesystems than others. APFS is for some reason worse in this regard, so best stick with the traditional “HFS+ w/ Journaling” on a Mac.

    If you transfer large collections of data you could/ probably should use rsync and not the Finder, preferably in a screen or tmux session. That way any crash of any of any the UI components will not mess up the copy process (even if Terminal.app goes down you’ll be able to reconnect to the screen/tmux session with the copy process still doing its thing). Also make sure your external disk has proper power all the time during the process (preferably do not attach another device during that time.)