EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE CUTS OUT RANDOMLY

Forum,
While in working in FCP, my external hard drive (G-Raid 2) keeps cutting out - 3 times in the past few hours.
I think it's a bad connection, but I'm not sure.
Any tips?
Thank you,
Trey

Check the cable connections and power supply.
Could also be drives going bad. Does it only happen undwer certain circumstance (when you step away and the computer sleeps, during long renders, etc.?) Or is random?

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