MacBook Pro ejecting secondary internal drive
Here is the information I have:
SYSTEM
MacBook Pro (Non-Retina)
OSX Version 10.8.4
13-inch, Mid 2012
HARDWARE
256 GIG Toshiba SSD - Primary Drive
1TB WD (HGST) 7200 RPM - Secondary Drive
ISSUE
I run VMs, Dropbox and Downloads from the secondary drive
Recently, the secondary harddrive will get ejected by the OS killing any work I was doing and obviously causing some headaches.
Originally, I had the SSD and the OEM 750gig harddrive in the MBP and ran this for about 6 months with no issues.
I upgraded to the 1TB for the speed (in theory) and slightly more space for the VMs I am running.
All was well for about 2 weeks until recently.
The drive was formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled) and had no issues during that process.
As mentioned, it has been running fine for a few weeks, running my parallels sessions with no issues, etc.
This is just recently.
I hope I am able to get a response quickly as I utilize this laptop for work and I am stuck for the moment.
Is there something I have missed.
I seem to be able to reproduce the issue if I try to copy in a file (larger than 60 gig) to this secondary drive, or when working with large sql calls in my windows parallels sessions.
PLEASE: Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you can think of something that would not involve a format of this second drive that would be even better, but of course if it is necessary, then so be it.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)