MacBook keeps randomly ejecting external drives

MacOS Ventura on MacBook Pro M1. Randomly ejects external drives of all types (LaCie rugged, or SanDisk SSD, or even flash drives). Tried all different cables and ports - clearly a software problem as I see this happening to lots of people. Happens mostly when Mac is sleeping, but will do it while awake too. I see they recently got rid of the option to "never put hard disks to sleep". Does it on battery or plugged in.

Posted on Jul 3, 2023 11:24 AM

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tbirdvet

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Jul 3, 2023 2:14 PM in response to jdasmh

I can only state that you should not use sleep as this is a known issue for many. Only turn off display or use screen saver. As for your drives ejecting randomly when awake I have no issue there so not sure why your drives would do that.

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