• Apple OS X

  Hard Drive Repairs USB/FW

  Posted by Chip Hess on February 14, 2014 at 5:39 pm

  This is a real conundrum.
  I have a late 2009 iMac,
  and use 2 external FW drives and a portable USB.

  I work in Avid and After Effects.
  Whenever I use all three drives simultaneously,
  my Mac starts acting funky and eventually stops
  recognizing the FW drives. I run Disc Utility
  and am told main drive is corrupt
  and needs repairing.

  That works but this is becoming areal pain.
  I have had the iMac in for authorized service
  and they can find nothing physically wrong
  with the main drive! They have run every overnight diagnostic
  in the book.

  Is there some issue with mixing USB and FW?
  I am certainly unaware if so, but this seems
  to be the culprit. The USB gets transported back and forth
  to/from work and is formatted to work with both Mac
  and PC for those reasons.

  Thoughts?

  Chip Hess replied 12 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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