When it arrived I plugged it in and ,yes you have guessed it.same as before. I dutifully ordered one from Amazon and waited for it to arrive. Then I noticed the random dialog boxes asking if I wanted to format the drive and error messages from the USB driver telling me that the device "might not have installed correctly" Fiddling with the cable at the device end brought it back intermittently so I thought may be time for a new cable. I first noticed the problem when using the drive with the computer randomly dropping the USB port and the drive disappearing from explorer. Personally I think the drive should have a hard wire to USB plug rather than the socket but I digress. This I think was my first mistake although was always conscious of maximum insertion counts for any type of plug like these and just liked the idea of minimising the pluggery. It has one of those 10 pin double plug/socket affairs and I used to cart around in my laptop bag with the cable attached ready for action. The drive was originally supplied with a short USB 3 cable which plugs into the side of the drive. With some USB sticks if the drive gets corrupted it refuses to be read and will only let you format the drive, damn infuriating sometimes.Still, not something my trusty M3 would suffer from, or so I thought.
One of the things I liked about it was that you could be rough with it by unplugging from a PC without having to worry about drive corruption etc. Its only a Terabyte but was a welcome gift a couple of years ago.
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