Hello
I know full well that this is a documented issue with OSX, but I am at the end of my tether and don't know which way to proceed.
The background,
I have a Hackintosh (can't afford a Mac Pro
). I am on my second hardware itteration which runs OSX quite nicely (both Gigabyte motherboards).
I have various external hard drives (USB2) as well. I have
2 x 2 Bay IcyBox External Enclosure (with 2 x 1TB Western Digital Drives in each (4TB total))
2 Western Digital MyBook (1TB each)
1 Seagate 750GB Hard Drive
The IcyBox bays use JMicron chipset controllers, I am not sure what the WD or Seagate chipset is as it doesn't tell me that.
The problem is, the USB drives keep ejecting for no reason. For instance, when I came to my computer this morning, one of the drives that houses time machine backups had ejected, and another drive that I backup using SuperDuper had also become un-writable. I have to reconnect the drives in order to get them working again.
I have read that Jmicron chipsets are very flakey on OSX, can anyone prove or disprove this?
I have been looking around at replacements - ideally I would like a 4 bay USB3 JBOD (I do not use RAID) enclosure that has a chipset that is guarenteed to work be happy with OSX. I am hoping that the Jmicron controllers on the IcyBox external hard drive enclosures is what is causing the problems - does this sound plausible to anyone?
I think replacement wise, I would need at least 3 seperate hard drives.
1 for Time Machine Backups (1TB)
1 for SuperDuper Backups (1TB)
1 for ripped movies (2TB)
But I would really like them to be all in one case, hence why I was searching for a 4Bay USB3 enclosure.
My budget isn't brilliant either. I don't really want to spend more than £250-300.
Anyone who offer any advice at all will be greatly appreciated
THanks
I know full well that this is a documented issue with OSX, but I am at the end of my tether and don't know which way to proceed.
The background,
I have a Hackintosh (can't afford a Mac Pro
). I am on my second hardware itteration which runs OSX quite nicely (both Gigabyte motherboards).I have various external hard drives (USB2) as well. I have
2 x 2 Bay IcyBox External Enclosure (with 2 x 1TB Western Digital Drives in each (4TB total))
2 Western Digital MyBook (1TB each)
1 Seagate 750GB Hard Drive
The IcyBox bays use JMicron chipset controllers, I am not sure what the WD or Seagate chipset is as it doesn't tell me that.
The problem is, the USB drives keep ejecting for no reason. For instance, when I came to my computer this morning, one of the drives that houses time machine backups had ejected, and another drive that I backup using SuperDuper had also become un-writable. I have to reconnect the drives in order to get them working again.
I have read that Jmicron chipsets are very flakey on OSX, can anyone prove or disprove this?
I have been looking around at replacements - ideally I would like a 4 bay USB3 JBOD (I do not use RAID) enclosure that has a chipset that is guarenteed to work be happy with OSX. I am hoping that the Jmicron controllers on the IcyBox external hard drive enclosures is what is causing the problems - does this sound plausible to anyone?
I think replacement wise, I would need at least 3 seperate hard drives.
1 for Time Machine Backups (1TB)
1 for SuperDuper Backups (1TB)
1 for ripped movies (2TB)
But I would really like them to be all in one case, hence why I was searching for a 4Bay USB3 enclosure.
My budget isn't brilliant either. I don't really want to spend more than £250-300.
Anyone who offer any advice at all will be greatly appreciated
THanks