![]() I bought 3 of them to go from my present 2 TB set up of one external disk and two backups (along with Backblaze) to the same setup with 4 TB. Unless you have another suggestion, I’ll try a different D-DRIVE USB. At that point, the backup disk spontaneously disconnected. Time Machine got to the point where it said “Backing up 860 MB of 288.90 GB”. Over the course of about 10 minutes, this continued. This time, Time Machine said it was backing up X bites of 288.90 GB. The external drive disk blinked a few times but mainly stayed quiet. Then the external drive disk fell silent and the backup disk blinked and clicked away. Then both disks blinked for a few seconds. Time Machine said “Preparing for Backup”. Here’s a more specific description of the last time I tried to get the disk to back up: I reconnected the disk and both my external drive and back up disk were quiet for about 4 minutes. ![]() ![]() When I reconnect the backup disk, Time Machine will go back to saying it is backing up stuff again, but then sooner or later, the disk will disconnect again. Time Machine will be saying something like “Waiting to finish download” when the disk has disconnected. When I unplug and re-plugin the drive, my MacBook Pro will see the disk again. Then the drive will spontaneously disconnect. Sometimes it will only be 10 minutes, sometimes longer. Time Machine will say something like "backing up 104 Mb of 720 GB and the backup drive clicks for a while. Here, again, is what’s happening: I click Time Machine to back up my internal and external drives and the backup drive starts clicking and blinking. The Energy Saver box was checked and I unchecked it.
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