This is strange. As I posted here recently, I experienced my first crashed external disk at least since I started buying macs in 2009. It was a <4 year old WD Blue 4TB HDD in an Inateck toaster. It was my TM disk, so nothing critical was lost (I have CCC and Backblaze too). So yesterday, I ran CCC on one external drive full of home videos, backing it up to <2 year old Sandisk Extreme 2TB SSD. Today I noticed that the Sandisk was grayed out in the Disk Utility, and wouldn’t mount. I ran DiskDrill on it, and it doesn’t look good. I can’t even reformat it.
So this is two crashed external drives within a week? Yes, yes, I know, “over the last 16 years, you’re still doing great!” hahaha. Still seems suspicious to me. Has anything changed recently? The only thing in common is the new Caldigit TS3+ that they are both plugged into. Coincidence?