I have a Samsung Portable SSD T5 (500GB) which has been formatted as an NTFS volume and contains my iTunes music library.
For the majority of the time, I am using it on a Windows 10 system where I have iTunes running.
Once a week, I disconnect it from the Windows 10 machine and connect it to a Windows 7 machine (where my backup software is running). On the Windows 7 machine I don't deliberately write to any files on the drive - the only thing that should be happening is that my backup software detects any changes on the drive and runs a backup to the cloud.
The problem is that periodically, when I move the SSD drive back to the Windows 10 PC, several files have become corrupted or deleted. For example, today:
- My iTunes library (
.itl) file was missing from the drive - Music that I had ripped within the last few weeks was completely missing (folders and files)
- Some folders had become corrupt on the drive, so File Explorer showed them but I got an error when trying to go into the folder.
I have also observed weird stuff in the past - e.g. .m4a files were truncated.
So it seems like there's a widespread vulnerability to file/directory corruption on this drive when moving it between systems. But I need to do this, as it's part of my current backup strategy.
I have checked Device Manager, and on both systems the "Removal policy" is set to "Quick removal" which disables write caching - this was the default option, and it seems like it would reduce the chance of corruption on the drive.
Is there anything I can do to determine why this is happening, and reduce this chance of this happening in the future?
