Ejecting USB drives constantly...

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Ejecting USB drives constantly...

I am using an M2 MacBook Air, and I have had non-stop issues with drives being randomly ejecting. This has happened on:

LaCie 10TB drive
Sandisk Extreme 2TB SSD
Samsung 4TB SSD
Sandisk Extreme Pro 4TB
WD 5TB Gamer drive
...and memory cards, too.

I see a few other topics about this, but it's been months and it's still happening. I have the cables that came with the drives (directly attached to the computer), separate Thunderbolt cables, and several others. I've seen this behavior with all of them. I think it even crashed my WD drive once as I've already had to reformat it to get it going again.

Any movement on Apple to figure out what we can do?

MacBook Air, macOS 13.4

Posted on Jun 2, 2023 8:12 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 9, 2023 9:17 AM in response to Allen Huffman

Is this different than the setting in Control Panel?

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Jun 3, 2023 7:09 AM in response to allenhuffman

More details... Last night, I had a SanDisk USB thumb drive plugged in via a short UCB-C to USB cable, and a LaCie external hard drive plugged in to the other USB-C port using the cable that came with the drive.

This morning, when I went to the computer, neither were mounting. Trying to run Disk Utility just spins, with an empty box.

Trying awhile later, Disk Utility will finally show my drives and shows both external drives as unmounted.

I still feel like I am new to the Mac -- but my first Mac was a 1998 original iMac. In all my years I have never had issues like this, not even with my previous MacBook Pro.

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Jun 9, 2023 9:15 AM in response to Barney-15E

I will give it a try. Is this something that has been turned on in recent years? My previous Mac (the last MacBook Pro that had firewire) never had any issues, but it was one or two macOS versions behind.

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