A question for my computer geek friends
Mar. 15th, 2022 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneI'm having the weirdest thing happen with a particular backup device for my Mac, and I don't think it's Mac specific, so bear with me if you're a PC or *nix person.
I'm backing up four Macs, an iMac and three laptops. I have two backup drives, an 8 TB and a USB hard drive dock that I plug a 5 TB bare drive in to. And that dock has been absolutely fine since I got it.
So far, so good.
The issue started in January. For reasons that are too tedious to go in to, I had to upgrade my iMac from an old Mac OS to the latest, Monterrey. At that point something happened and every time I plug in the dock, the computer freaks out and loses Bluetooth connectivity with the keyboard and trackpad!
Weird, eh?!
That same dock works fine with the other three laptops. And the 8 TB works fine with all four computers.
Now, a friend of mine, when he does OS upgrades - not updates - always disconnects his Time Machine backup drives as he's had some terrible problems in the past. And that's what I did when I did my Monterrey install. He's had the backup drive corrupt on him, and I wanted to make sure I had a solid fallback point. And now that drive is inaccessible.
The iMac itself is a 2015 27" 5K iMac, and is exhibiting display problems. Very rarely, but on at least two occasions in the last year or so. And it's clearly out of warranty. It behaves if I plug in an external monitor, so it should have some life left in it yet. Still, that does demonstrate that there is something slightly wrong inside, and if one thing is wrong, there could be more than one thing wrong.
I'm not too worried about the contents of the 5 TB bare drive as the backup is now refreshed on the 8 TB drive. I'm just curious what people's thoughts might be. But basically, if I plug in the 5 TB drive and dock, I'm looking at a power switch power-off situation. Which really sucks.
Thoughts?
I'm backing up four Macs, an iMac and three laptops. I have two backup drives, an 8 TB and a USB hard drive dock that I plug a 5 TB bare drive in to. And that dock has been absolutely fine since I got it.
So far, so good.
The issue started in January. For reasons that are too tedious to go in to, I had to upgrade my iMac from an old Mac OS to the latest, Monterrey. At that point something happened and every time I plug in the dock, the computer freaks out and loses Bluetooth connectivity with the keyboard and trackpad!
Weird, eh?!
That same dock works fine with the other three laptops. And the 8 TB works fine with all four computers.
Now, a friend of mine, when he does OS upgrades - not updates - always disconnects his Time Machine backup drives as he's had some terrible problems in the past. And that's what I did when I did my Monterrey install. He's had the backup drive corrupt on him, and I wanted to make sure I had a solid fallback point. And now that drive is inaccessible.
The iMac itself is a 2015 27" 5K iMac, and is exhibiting display problems. Very rarely, but on at least two occasions in the last year or so. And it's clearly out of warranty. It behaves if I plug in an external monitor, so it should have some life left in it yet. Still, that does demonstrate that there is something slightly wrong inside, and if one thing is wrong, there could be more than one thing wrong.
I'm not too worried about the contents of the 5 TB bare drive as the backup is now refreshed on the 8 TB drive. I'm just curious what people's thoughts might be. But basically, if I plug in the 5 TB drive and dock, I'm looking at a power switch power-off situation. Which really sucks.
Thoughts?
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Date: 2022-03-15 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-16 01:13 am (UTC)Tell me about it! I can't claim 38 years of Mac experience, but a similar amount of time with computers in general. One of my favorites was a box of bus strips where the end outlet was guaranteed to fail. And I remember PCs where you couldn't put certain cards in certain slots because of timing or power issues. But those were back in the '80s and '90s, computers are somewhat better designed and made these days.