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Could it be some kind of write-caching issue?
Just checked one of the enclosures and all 4 drives have write-caching disabled ("quick removal" is selected).
I see there are several threads in here with similar issues with copying files to external drives and corruption. None mention archive files in particular. I'm wondering now if non-archive files I've been copying over have also been getting corrupted without me even knowing it. Scary thought. I think I'll be using Teracopy for non-archive files going forward until I can figure out what's happening here as a precaution.
It's weird because I haven't had any archive tests fail if I archive to my internal drive and then copy over to the external, but that takes twice the time. But that suggests that it's not the copying that's an issue - it seems to point specifically to me archiving directly to the external drive, which I've never had a problem with before.