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- Real Name: Gary Schultz
schultzgg wrote:This year, I've had 4 external hard drives fail on me. I'm guessing it can't be bad luck anymore, so I'm hoping to diagnose the issue. The biggest change in the past year is that I've started using Resolve, and I started shooting a lot of raw video with an old HD BMPCC.
What brand? Are they all the same models?
Note that often, the internal hard drive is fine but the enclosure has failed (for whatever reason). Take the drive out, put it in another enclosure, it's fine.
Some brands seem to last longer than others. We've had great luck with G-Tech, and horrible luck with Lacie -- your miles may vary. We tend to buy a low-capacity G-Tech enclosure, open it up, toss the drive, and replace it with a much higher-capacity drive like a 12TB or 16TB drive instead. This works fine, particularly if you use the same kind of drive the enclosure is made for (like Western Digitals and HGST's).
It's not the OS, it's not you, it's not Resolve, it's just one of those things you have to deal with. In 30 years, I've never had a hard drive fail that we couldn't recover, but we're stubborn and never give up. Prosoft Data Rescue has saved us on a few memorable occasions. And whatever you do... back up. Often.