Have had to reformat multiple times...

This is being used as a Time Machine for my iMac. Overall, setup was fine. It seems fast and functions normally with Time Machine. The problem is, that it's gotten corrupt multiple times and has become unusable. Of course, the solution from Seagate has always been to reformat the drive. That's great and all, but when you're using it for Time Machine, it's not exactly easy to copy 6TB somewhere and reformat and then restore the backups. Unless, you want to go out and buy a second one of these just to fix it when it corrupts. To be fair, it's hard to say what exactly causes the corruption (drive or OS). But, I've not had this issue with my other devices which makes me feel like it's something related to this device in particular. I've had this issue happen 3 times over the course of 5 months. After reformatting, everything worked fine. On a positive note, support has been relatively easy to get a hold of. They also offered to replace the drive at my cost for return shipping. I still have 6 months or so left on Warranty, so I may yet decide to replace it, but for now I simply reformatted and I'm up and going. Granted, I've lost all my incremental backups as a result.

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