I built a PC for my video editing business last year. The thing runs great, plays back footage smoothly, and exports super quickly, but it has no reliability when it comes to my external hard drives.
I've had hard drives fail, solid state drives fail. I've had drives that I received from clients fail, as well as drives that I formatted on this computer itself fail. The failed drives have been all sorts of formats: types I've accessed using MacDrive (like HFS and HFS+), exFAT, NTFS, you name it. The failures don't seem to be happening with drives plugged into any one port but all of them-- be it USB 3.0, 3.1, or USB C ports.
Sometimes prior to the drive failing, the playback of footage becomes choppy or fails to play. One of the other things I've noticed sometimes when a drive is about to fail is when I go to disconnect it I get the "unable to mount" message repeatedly, despite no program that I know accessing the drive. So I've been forced to shut down the computer, disconnect the drive, and restart the computer. The next time I plug the drive in-- corrupted, can't be read.
Occasionally when this happens, when I look in Disk Management, the "failed" drive will have its Status listed as "Healthy" and when I go to repair it, the Disk Management says no problems found. But if I try to click on the drive, it still can't be read.
Sometimes these drives in Disk Management are listed as being "100% Free Space," other times, these failed drives show that a percentage of the drive still has data.
I now have one of these drives that can't be read on my Windows machine. When I plug it into my Macbook M1 Max, it reads it just fine, but of course I can't write to it.
I'm getting desperate here because clients are becoming iffy working with me on this machine now. Any idea what could possibly be happening? I've never experienced this with any other computer.
SPECS:
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
Memory: 64 GB RAM
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
If you need any other info let me know!
I've had hard drives fail, solid state drives fail. I've had drives that I received from clients fail, as well as drives that I formatted on this computer itself fail. The failed drives have been all sorts of formats: types I've accessed using MacDrive (like HFS and HFS+), exFAT, NTFS, you name it. The failures don't seem to be happening with drives plugged into any one port but all of them-- be it USB 3.0, 3.1, or USB C ports.
Sometimes prior to the drive failing, the playback of footage becomes choppy or fails to play. One of the other things I've noticed sometimes when a drive is about to fail is when I go to disconnect it I get the "unable to mount" message repeatedly, despite no program that I know accessing the drive. So I've been forced to shut down the computer, disconnect the drive, and restart the computer. The next time I plug the drive in-- corrupted, can't be read.
Occasionally when this happens, when I look in Disk Management, the "failed" drive will have its Status listed as "Healthy" and when I go to repair it, the Disk Management says no problems found. But if I try to click on the drive, it still can't be read.
Sometimes these drives in Disk Management are listed as being "100% Free Space," other times, these failed drives show that a percentage of the drive still has data.
I now have one of these drives that can't be read on my Windows machine. When I plug it into my Macbook M1 Max, it reads it just fine, but of course I can't write to it.
I'm getting desperate here because clients are becoming iffy working with me on this machine now. Any idea what could possibly be happening? I've never experienced this with any other computer.
SPECS:
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
Memory: 64 GB RAM
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
If you need any other info let me know!