High Sierra / External HD Problems
I upgraded my iMac to High Sierra a couple days ago. Everything seemed to be good.
Today I plugged in a 6 TB WD My Book and it crapped out. I was able to see the drive in Disk Utilities but wasn't able to repair it or run a test on it. I then took the drive over to my MacBook running El Capitan and it won't even show up in Disk Utilities. Looks like I'll have to spend $100 on Disk Warrior and pray that it will fix it.
I then plugged in my Drobo to my iMac and one of the drives failed. So I went to Best Buy to buy a new external drive (so I could back up my Drobo, as my previous backup is on the 6 TB drive that borked), plugged in the new drive and it immediately crapped out too. I was able to see it in Disk Utilities but I wasn't able to format it or repartition it. I then took it to my MacBook and was able to partition it there.
THREE DRIVES FAILED IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES.
Is there something going on with High Sierra and external drives, and if so, what can I do? I'm terrified of plugging in another drive for fear of losing all of my data!
Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)