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external hard drive crashing my Mac

I have a 10 tb Lacie external drive and have it install on my Mac the system locks up

I have out external drive working find

I tying connecting to another Mac and same issue

seem like the mark drive is bad, although I can open it at first but over time the computer lock up

Try to run disk first aid but say can not unmount

any ideas before I erase it and/or trash this hard drive

Thanks

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jan 25, 2022 3:25 PM

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BDAqua

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Posted on Jan 25, 2022 4:08 PM

The Unmount problem is likely due to Spotlight Indexing the drive ORE fsck already running & trying to repair a sick drive, see if you can exclude it in Sys Prefs>Spotlight>Privacy

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