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Just bought a Mac Studio and the new WD has been VERY unreliable. I lost 30 hours of design work. [I spent hours on the phone with them and they will not replace a drive that was 18 days old.]
Sooooo what would be a reliable ED? I have a LaCie on my intel IMac and it has been solid. Should I stay with that? I only need 2-5 TB.
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Mac Studio, macOS 14.5
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OWC (aka macsales) has a solid reputation in the Mac market. I have many HDDs, SSDs & enclosures that I have purchased from them over the past 20 years and all have worked perfectly. Earlier this year I retired all my old OWC Firewire enclosures, after all these years, and they were still chugging along; I replaced them with much faster USB3 enclosures.
My current favorite enclosure is the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual with 3-Port Hub with SSDs inside. (FWIW, I'm using Samsung 870EVO SSDs but am about to try out the Mercury Electra 3G SSDs. Maybe even the 6G's - they get a lot of rave reviews.)
Like @BDAqua, I suggest staying away from the popular consumer "brand name" drives like the WD Passport. You spent serious money acquiring your Studio; don't go cheap on storage, it's actually the most valuable part of your system because it holds all your data. And make sure you always have good backups.
+1👍
OWC (aka macsales) has a solid reputation in the Mac market. I have many HDDs, SSDs & enclosures that I have purchased from them over the past 20 years and all have worked perfectly. Earlier this year I retired all my old OWC Firewire enclosures, after all these years, and they were still chugging along; I replaced them with much faster USB3 enclosures.
My current favorite enclosure is the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual with 3-Port Hub with SSDs inside. (FWIW, I'm using Samsung 870EVO SSDs but am about to try out the Mercury Electra 3G SSDs. Maybe even the 6G's - they get a lot of rave reviews.)
Like @BDAqua, I suggest staying away from the popular consumer "brand name" drives like the WD Passport. You spent serious money acquiring your Studio; don't go cheap on storage, it's actually the most valuable part of your system because it holds all your data. And make sure you always have good backups.
Particularly if you have multiple Macs and have the budget for it, a Synology NAS with WD HGST Ultrastar Helium drives. Yeah, WE HGST (which traces back to IBM) is now at WD, but the drives have been fine.
I'd avoid any drives n the drive manufactures cases, as well as any of their driver software.
I'd recommrnd any of the externals here...
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/external-storage
I'd recommend any of the externals here...
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/external-storage
Stay away from drives cased by the drive manufacture, crazy as it sounds.
Things can go south for various reasons and drives can fail without warning.
If your design work, photos, and other files are irreplaceable, then it is wise to have and use two external drives. One drive for storage and/or backups and a second drive to backup the first.
I am a freelance illustrator looking for a 2-5TB drive. Off the shelf. Looking for a brand name. The new drive that failed was a WD Passport for Mac. I work in Illustrator which does not require a lot of space.
Molly
How to select external drive for my Mac Studio
