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lalquier

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 21, 2007
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Hi

Is anyone aware of Time Machine causing random shutdowns on a Mac Pro ?

After several incidents, I tracked down my random shutdown issues to using a USB or a NAS drive with Time Machine.

Using an internal HDD works fine.

I know it could be caused my a wide array of things (electrical, temperature, corrupted files) but it comes down to this : if I set Time Machine to an internal HDD, I can go months without any random shut down. If I set Time Machine to a USB or NAS drive, I get a random shutdown within a week.

Does this sound familiar to anyone ?

Specs : I am running Lion on a 2008 Mac Pro, with 2 quad cores, 4GB RAM and a Radeon HD 4870.
Temperature rarely gets above 100F.
 
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