External SSD auto-ejecting / unmounting

inknpaper wrote:

I bought one of those MacBook Air M1's about 18 months ago, and I've had nothing but problems with it. It has been the worst Mac I have owned in 30 years, but Apple said there is nothing wrong with it, hahahahaaa!

Anyway, when buying the laptop I also purchased a Sandisk 500 GB SSD that I regularly used to plug in and use for Time Machine and to also store extra files, but these past few months the drive has decided to eject itself for no reason, within a couple of minutes.

Using the 1 Drive for Multi Purposes is generally not a good idea.

All the Eggs in one Basket and the Basket falls - Scrambled Eggs

Plus, TM Backup wants to take Total Control of the Entire Drive

Even though I have tried to use Disk Utility (-69565 & -69673 operation failed) and I also tried the startup options (doesn't even show up any all), I am unable to do anything.

I'm now on Ventura, but the issue started before the recent upgrade.

Is there any reason why it randomly unmounts? Is there a possible solution or should I just bin it and buy another brand? Saying that, I would like to get some of my extra files back.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions : )

It's probably the same reason USB-C docks and USB-C monitors are connecting and disonnecting all the time. It's absolutely astonishing how Apple can release an operating system in such a state of utter failure.

Agreed 😀 it should not be an issue until the inevitable occurs and the drive fails outright

They do fail without the slights notice

Nevermind.