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Recommended USB 3.0 hard drives for rMacbook Pro?

Doc69

Doc69

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My siblings have one 13" 2013 rMacpook Pro and one 15" 2012 rMacbook Pro and both their external USB 3.0 drives eject themselves. They live abroad so I can't get my hands on the Macs to help them.

The 13" has an Express 2.5" USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure from OWC, and the 15" has a brand new HGST Touro Mobile Pro 1TB. I see form other threads that many people have the same issue with other USB 3.0 drives.

Can the issue be fixed?

Can someone recommend a 7200rpm external USB 3.0 HD that works flawlessly with these two rMacbook Pros?
 
I like the LaCie Rugged and the Western Digital Passport for portable hard drives.
 
Doc69 said:
My siblings have one 13" 2013 rMacpook Pro and one 15" 2012 rMacbook Pro and both their external USB 3.0 drives eject themselves. They live abroad so I can't get my hands on the Macs to help them.

Can the issue be fixed?
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There's nothing wrong with those drives per se, it's a bug in OS X that appears to have been introduced in 10.8.5.

Are they running 10.9.3 yet?
 
simonsi said:
Are they both using the same make/model of external drive?
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No, the 13" has an Express 2.5" USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure from OWC, and the 15" has a brand new HGST Touro Mobile Pro 1TB. My siblings don't live in the same country, so they unfortunately have not been able to test each other's drives.
 
maflynn said:
I like the LaCie Rugged and the Western Digital Passport for portable hard drives.
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I also have the Lacie rugged and primarily use WD externals.
The Lacie rugged worked great with my 2013 13" Macbook Air, I never noticed any random disconnects or self-ejecting.
I later replaced the internal drive with a Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD and now this little external is quick. Very quick.

Now even after saying I never experienced self-ejecting with that Rugged drive, I do have 1 WD 2TB drive that will self eject but this is the 1st WD I've had that did this since the 1st WD 1TB drive I bought in 2007. I now have 10 @ home and about as many at my offices.

but that's just brand preference for me.:)
 
Are they ejecting randomly or only after the Macs have been put to sleep?
 
Doc69 said:
My siblings have one 13" 2013 rMacpook Pro and one 15" 2012 rMacbook Pro and both their external USB 3.0 drives eject themselves. They live abroad so I can't get my hands on the Macs to help them.

The 13" has an Express 2.5" USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure from OWC, and the 15" has a brand new HGST Touro Mobile Pro 1TB. I see form other threads that many people have the same issue with other USB 3.0 drives.

Can the issue be fixed?

Can someone recommend a 7200rpm external USB 3.0 HD that works flawlessly with these two rMacbook Pros?
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I can only recommend portable drives of which I have a 1tb wd, 1.5tb SG, and a 2tb WD. The WD's in general are much quieter, but none have any issues with ejecting.
 
Just a thought but if this was a drive issue surely you would get the "drive not ejected properly" message - so this would indicate the OS is ejecting them, or thinking it is being told to eject them.....:confused:
 
Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD sitting in an Inateck enclosure that does UASP. Read/write speeds are the same as the internal SSD, 400MBs+.

For a spinning HD, put a HGST 1TB traveller 7200rpm in the enclosure.
 
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