Thank you to all that stepped in to help… Problem Resolved!
I had the Crucial drive plugged into the front of my Mac mini… USB3.
Plugged into one of the back Thunderbolt ports and all is working as it should.
After chatting with Crucial support, they suggested a powered hub. That’s when it dawned on me… Thunderbolt carries more power, did the switch and all is well in the land of Hixsonia@
Thanks again to everyone who chimed in to help!!!
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Reformatted in ExFat just to try something other than APFS (didn’t help obviously). I don’t really need to index the drive as all the files are being called from there respective hosts, i.e.; BFD3. EZDrummer 3, SD3, etc. so no need to do Spotlight searches on it.
Yes first install was fine but moving all drum samples to a new drive for future expansions (I have a shit-load of photos and my music library on the drive that I’m moving from and need more space).
I agree with Jordan as well, just happened to be 2 files that were in my SD3 Sounds folder. There is no blame from me on SD3, as I said in a prior response, I just wish Toontrack aloud me to download specific, named kits instead of the whole library. If I knew what kits those 2 files belong to, it would make all this go away.
Did not try another cable but after transferring about 220GB of other files and these being the only 2 that cause a problem, I’d be hard pressed to blame the cable. If it were the cable I think I’d get more random files creating the same problem.
Not really saying it’s Toontrack issue but a corrupted file or a bad sector issue. Formatted in ExFat and tried again and I would think it would write to a different sector but unfortunately, same result.
Guess I’ll just have to bite the bullet and reinstall the whole 90 gigs.
Just as an aside… I’ve been a Certified Apple Specialist for most of my adult career so trouble-shooting is something I do a lot.
Appreciate your input but it is not a OS or SSD issue. I outlined my trouble-shooting in the original post… start at the highest level, test and work your way down. All my BFD3, Addictive Drums, EXDrummer 3 and a bunch of other drum sample libraries transfer to the drive without a hitch (just reformatted the drive and moved all of those, sans the 2 suspect files). It is just 2 files in the SP3 library that eject the disk.
The suggestion to re-download the SP3 main library would be a good one if I had a fast internet connection… I don’t. At just under 90GB, it takes about 24 hours+ to do that.
If Toontracks didn’t use such an arcane naming convention for their library, I could hone it down to just the kits that have the corrupted files and download those alone and be on my way.
Thanks again for the input,
Jeff
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