Failing as in OSX can't mount them anymore or a partition has been lost. This was pre-SR, in an Orico USB3 enclosure which had been okay for many y...

The 4TB drives in my first USB3 enclosure are dropping like flies! The third one (out of 5) has forced me to buy Disk Drill which is taking ages to re...

A quick question: at the default setting, certifying consists of three sets of identical writing and verifying? So if the process fails at the very en...

Thanks. The USB thing may be moot anyway, I think one of the USB enclosures is faulty, perhaps it contributed to the HDD failures. I'll be throwing it...

All 4 new HDDs failed certification. I did them all at the same time. I'm currently trying again, this time each enclosure to its own thunderbolt ...

Sorry to hijack this, thread. I have been certifying some 4tb toshiba hdds in 2 thunderbays. The first lot completed okay. But the second lot have co...