corruption on external disk
Has anyone experienced file corruption when saving data to an external SSD?
In this case mine is a Sandisk Extreme Portable 1TB, using a Satechi USB C hub, the one advertised on the Apple store.
i copy a video to the disk and when played back, sometimes the playback shows video loss, this shows on my iPad as a stutter and on a Win10 PC as tearing in the video stream.
I didn’t get any error message when it was copied, so would assume it was ok, but when the disk is plugged into the Windows PC a message pops up saying the drive has problems, doing a command line chkdsk on the PC reports many errors and file corruption. If I choose to repair the disk, the video is unplayable. I can reformat the disk and the problem occurs again when a file is copied to the disk from within the iPad. If I copy a file from within Windows, all seems well.
At the moment I can’t be confident that the drive is somehow corrupt as each time a file is copied to it in the iPad, the Windows PC reports an error.
The corruption might also be occurring due to removing the disk from the iPad, as unlike Windows there’s no utility to unmount it. I’ve tried switching the iPad off and closing the files app but to no avail.
your thoughts and experiences would be most welcome as I need to decide if I need to return the Sandisk SSD back to the supplier.
Cheers, keep safe everyone.
iPad Pro 11-inch Wi-Fi