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Stability problems with My Book Studio 4tb on Mac

Hi all, i couldn’t find a discussion near to my problem, so let me open this topic…

I’ve just bought my My Book Studio 4tb, it connected regularly to my Mac at first time, but the problem is that during copy on the hard drive, it disappears from Mac disconnecting and istantly reconnecting stopping fastidiously the copying process… It does so only when copying files. I’ve tried almost everything, included to run it on Windows in another computer (once NTFS formatted), and… surprise: it works very fine on PC without this problem.

I’ve tried also to format in FAT32, NTFS (using paragon on Mac) in addition to HFS journaled to try to let him work fine on Mac, but it always have the same problem…

Hello,

Just for troubleshooting purposes, make sure the drive is plugged in directly into the wall outlet.

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