Don't trust a quationable backup hard drive
01/01/25 Filed in: time machine
I am trying to use the external backup disk (WD my passport), and I keep getting the message “Backup Disk not available”.
Any ideas? It doesn’t seem to recognize it, whereas it used to give that message once and then it would work when I hit “backup now” a second time.
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My thoughts on Time Machine backup drives. As soon as a backup drive starts giving any problems at all, it’s time to replace it. Compounded by the fact, I dislike western digital drives. My goto that has been overall very reliable with so many people over the years is Seagate. I’ll place a link below.
If you would like to give the WD drive a little more chance however (and save some money for a bit) you could always wipe the drive, reformat it, then start the Time Machine backups over again. I don’t like this option because you then lose the history of your backups that exist on that drive.
There are other support files that could be deleted in order to get the drive to behave properly but honestly, I like using the analogy that a backup drive is like a scuba tank. If it’s leaking, don’t dive with it, don’t repair it, get a new one. Same could be said about fire extinguishers. You need them to work without question.
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Any ideas? It doesn’t seem to recognize it, whereas it used to give that message once and then it would work when I hit “backup now” a second time.
____________
My thoughts on Time Machine backup drives. As soon as a backup drive starts giving any problems at all, it’s time to replace it. Compounded by the fact, I dislike western digital drives. My goto that has been overall very reliable with so many people over the years is Seagate. I’ll place a link below.
If you would like to give the WD drive a little more chance however (and save some money for a bit) you could always wipe the drive, reformat it, then start the Time Machine backups over again. I don’t like this option because you then lose the history of your backups that exist on that drive.
There are other support files that could be deleted in order to get the drive to behave properly but honestly, I like using the analogy that a backup drive is like a scuba tank. If it’s leaking, don’t dive with it, don’t repair it, get a new one. Same could be said about fire extinguishers. You need them to work without question.
https://amzn.to/3W102dK
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