Another external HD failure, this time a drive purchased in September 2020, so it’s just outside the 24-month consumer law quality/fit-for-purpose regulations. It was used for one of two weekly Time Machine backups for my MacBook Pro and later for the MacBook Air that replaced it. The defective device was a 2 TB G-Technology G-Drive hard disk.
The 2 TB capacity was excessive, really. I prefer to allow 2.5 to 3 times a Mac’s inbuilt storage for Time Machine backups, so a 256 GB Mac would need 640 to 768 GB of backup capacity, best filled by a 1 TB drive.
I’ve ordered a LaCie Rugged 1TB HDD with USB-C connectivity, in the interim Sunday backups are being done on a 480 GB SSD.
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