WD My Book Essentials 2TB standby or fast flashing

Thanks for the reply. It is plugged into the mains.

I found a solution although it isn’t ideal. I read elsewhere that this is a common problem with these units and the only way around it is to unplug the jab and power, then plug both back in at the same time. Solved the issue for a while then had to do it again. I think the drive is failing because it just won’t reliably copy/paste from the last set of folders I have been using. I thought I’d found a suspect file causing the issue so I deleted it, only for another file to start causing an issue. Both files are dng’s from my camera and luckily not selected photos I’m going to use for the wedding clients final package. Ordered a new internal drive to copy all the wd drive files to then I will just run diagnostics on the bare drive out of the enclosure to see if I can resolve the issue.