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  1. haralds

    TimeCapsule Disk Replacement

    I am currently using a Mac Mini with a stack of USB drives for TimeMachine. But I am working on slimming down the number of Macs in our house. Sometime next year we will be down to two MacBooks (M1 with 1TB and 2TB drive) and a media Mac Mini. I am looking to simplify life and returning to using...
  2. O

    Time Capsule 3TB fail Apple

    Hi, I purchased a 3TB Time Capsule direct from Apple last year (April 2018) after my trusted 500mb Time Capsule was too small to carry on, it was about 8 years old and never let me down. From July '18 I have had my Time Capsule history completely wiped, Apple staff remoted in twice to my iMac...
  3. W

    High Sierra formats 3TB as 801GB

    After dealing with this problem several years ago, I thought it had been left far behind. But I recently got a new Toshiba 3TB HD and hooked it up to my server running High Sierra (SSD, 16 GB RAM, 2012) Did not look closely at what Disk Utility was doing, but chose to initialize it in APFS as...
  4. ColinDPritchard

    Disk Utility will not format 3TB drives

    We just got 2 new internal Toshiba 3TB drives for an external enclosure. Disk Utility refuses to format them as 3TB. Only gives me 801.23GB. The connection is over firewire. Not sure if that matters. The Mac is running 10.11.6. Any ideas on what we can do to fix this?
  5. J

    iMac 27" late-2015 1TB SSD and 3TB Fusion Drive models

    Hi all, If you have iMac 27" late-2015 with original Apple 1TB SSD or 3TB Fusion Drive or you know the following info, please share: 1. is 1TB SSD NVMe? I think you could check it by going to  -> About this Mac -> System Info and looking if the SSD is under NVMExpress or SATA/SATA Express...
  6. satinsilverem2

    Seagate slapped with lawsuit over 3TB failures

    I don't know if this thread is in the right location so mods feel free to move it. I was one of the people who invested heavily in the 3TB Seagate drive when it came out and of the four that I bought only one is functioning. Although since the others failed early on I've taken it out of daily...