wd external hard drive mac showing red circle

Right now I've got a 3TB Seagate and I think a 5TB Toshiba on my desk and they've been running just fine for I think going on 2 years. (I guess maybe if I kept my drives around more than a few years, I'd be on the right-hand side of that 'bathtub'-shaped failure graph that's apparently so common.) I've gone through a lot of drives, but almost always because I need more capacity, not because of failure. I also generally have a few portable drives on hand which I use for monthly backups which are kept offsite. Everybody seems to have their favorites or no-go brands but I personally buy indiscriminately from whichever recognizable brand is on sale, and really have never had any more trouble from any more than another.įor the last 10 years or so I've had a setup where my iTunes media is on an external drive and there's another big desktop drive running Time Machine to back up the Media drive and the internal drive.

Drives definitely sometimes just quit on you (it's only a matter of time) but I can't count how many 'X brand drives are more failure-prone!' comments I've seen, where X = any major brand.

Wd external hard drive mac showing red circle