I have a WD Elements Desktop Hard Drive that has worked perfectly since its purchase. However, since upgrading to Mac OS Ventura this past week, the hard drive regularly (as in 4-5 times per day) disconnects from my Mac Mini. It has never done this before, so I tend to believe that the Ventura upgrade is responsible.
Any ideas?
Mac mini 2018 or later
Don Price wrote:
I have a WD Elements Desktop Hard Drive that has worked perfectly since its purchase. However, since upgrading to Mac OS Ventura this past week, the hard drive regularly (as in 4-5 times per day) disconnects from my Mac Mini. It has never done this before, so I tend to believe that the Ventura upgrade is responsible.
Any ideas?
One indicator of a failing drive is "spontaneous disconnects"
You can try a different drive and compare your results....
You can erase,reformat, initialize as new and try again...(?)
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
If you value your user data
3-2-1 Backup Strategy: three copies of your data, two different methods, and one offsite.
More than one device, more than one backup methodology.
hard drive spontaneous disconnects
