Is my drive on the way out?

[LongLensPhotography]

This one is fairly new, bought in January - 1TB Toshiba USB3 Basics.
Used only as scratch disk and secondary backup so no data losses there.

I am very concerned that it frequently becomes read only on OSX, when I try to create a folder I get -50 error. Unmount also fails. I have to pull the cable, then back in. Then it reads and writes. It also makes an occasional clicking sound when writing more data. The other WD drive works flawlessly so far.

Duffer or something else wrong?

 

[cymruchris]

Sounds like on the way out to me...

I had a 1tb toshiba go the same way...

 

[neil_g]

Get the drive into a new caddy.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

Sounds like on the way out to me...

I had a 1tb toshiba go the same way...

I think I'll take it to PC World and ask. I am not sure how easy it will be given that it still reads everything

Get the drive into a new caddy.

I'd rather not void the warranty yet in this case. Anyway - any good budget USB3 enclosures out there? There were little back in January, when I considered getting just a bare drive.

 

[Raincloud]

PC World! Run!

 

[neil_g]

I'd rather not void the warranty yet in this case. Anyway - any good budget USB3 enclosures out there? There were little back in January, when I considered getting just a bare drive.

if the drive it in warranty and its still readable then get the data backed up and return it. could be that the controller in the caddy is misbehaving and sending iffy data to the drive causing it to click, or the drive has a click of death.

icybox do good enclosures.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

oddly enough the drive started behaving a lot better after reformat and repartition as GUID

If it does do anything suspicious again it is on the way back to the PC World (not that I have any choice...)

 

[Lyonspride]

PC World! Run!