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I bought this on Thursday from B&H. Arrived Friday and I formatted it to I believe macos extended journaled, then loaded it up with a bunch of essentially irreplaceable photos without much thought. This morning I uploaded a bunch of them to my Cryptomater iCloud vault to show a friend. I come back a few hours later and I can't view the files on this drive and I eject it, plug it back in and it won't mount, but I can see it in disk utility and it knows it's 4TB.
Also it looks like it corrupted the photos I was uploading too.
What happened and / or what do I do?
This was originally done on a 2019 Macbook Pro 13" running Catalina 10.15.7 over USB-C.
And it ran super fast yesterday, which is why I went for the PRO. Loaded it up with maybe a hundred or so gigs worth of files. Guess I should've only copied and gave it a trial period. It was getting pretty hot compared to my 2TB T5.