I ran your Data Lifeguard Diagnostics and it passed both the short and the extended test. As to the two theories you listed:
- Bad cable. These systems and cables have been used with another USB 3.0 driver for years without issues. I would also think that if there were cable issues, there would be link failures causing host side I/O failures to appear. No such failures.
- Virus. Always have the latest anti-virus and no issues here.
I have moved back to my older USB 3.0 drive and I no longer have corruption. There is something wrong with the drive. My guess is that it isn’t handling power down correctly. I don’t have time to deal with data corruption issues so I’m moving to another drive.
Should you find out any corruption issues with your USB 3.0 driver, and if there is a fix, please post here. Until then, I’ll leave this drive on the shelf.
