On 12/03/13 12:06, James Harper wrote:
Our nightly backups outgrew the 500GB disks I was using so I've bought some 1TB disks, and they aren't working properly. Both the old and new disk are USB3 disks on a USB3 controller which seems to require a reboot every 50 plug/unplug cycles or so but otherwise previously worked well.
The symptoms are: ... . cable bad (it's well less than 3M) ...
My household has ongoing issues with USB cables, particularly the micro ones, and it is usually power rather than signal - the specs for wire size seem to be honoured in the breech, and USB3 micro seems to elevate the problem with its dinky little contacts and less than positive mechanical locking. MSY have 1m cables with decent wire for about $6 - get a couple of those and see how you go.