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  1. N

    External Hard Drives Keep Spinning Down / Spinning Up

    I have 3 external hard drives attached to my Mac Studio via a USB 3 hub. These drives are repeatedly spinning down then spinning up. It's driving me crazy. Is there a way to prevent drive spinning down while the Mac Studio is in use?
  2. hewhore

    Configuring a shared folder on an external drive, where only that folder is visible to other users

    There are three users on one Mac, (macOS 14.4) - I want to create a shared folder on an external drive (the internal HD of the M1 Mac mini does not have enough space), which is visible to all users on the computer, but not the external volume containing it. All users should have the same...
  3. Buadhai

    M1 Base Model MBA (8/256) Poor External Drive Performance

    I put together an external drive for my M1 MBA base model (8GB RAM, 256GB Internal Drive). The external drive is a Samsung 1TB 970 EVO Plus M.2 NVMe SSD. The enclosure is an ORICO USB4.0 M2 NVMe SSD Enclosure 40Gbps PCIe3.0x4 The cable is an ORICO PD Cable for Thunderbolt 4 Video 8K 60Hz...
  4. V

    Best solution to expand storage and ports for MacMini 2018

    I have a MacMini Late 2018 with 32 GB RAM and 256 GB of internal SSD. Currently I have an old external 1 TB SSD connected via USB 3 with read speeds of about 93 MB/s, so I am looking to replace it with a newer, faster and better-looking solution to: 1) Extend my working storage capacity 2) Add...
    • victor.espina
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    • docking station external disk macmini 2018
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Mac mini
  5. vincenzo79

    macOS Sonoma Slow on External Disk

    HI, I am writing to you because I have a problem that I can not figure out. For needs related to my work, I needed to install macOS Sonoma on a 1TB external drive where there are two partitions. The first partition is occupied by my projects while the second partition is occupied by the Sonoma...
  6. G

    external ssd can't be formatted for Mac

    Heyo All I went thru some of the post but could not find a satisfactory answer. I got a 4TB external ssd in a very small form format, (size of a matchbox just 1/3 of the thickness) for about the same amount I would pay for the aluminium casing it is in. However, as soon as I try to format it to...
    • guido.coza
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    • exfat external disk format ssd ssd
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: iOS 10
  7. Rafterman

    SD Card Weirdness with 13.4

    A weird thing. I have a MacBook Pro 16 inch M2. It has one of those flush SD cards (1TB) that I keep in there permanently as scratch space. Everything worked fine before the 13.4 update. Pre-13.4, on a reboot, the card would show up like normally. But now, with 13.4, the card will not show up...
  8. G

    APFS or MacOS Extended: Share USB3 drive as Time Machine Backup Destination

    I'd like to use a new 5TB USB3 external hard drive on my 2023 Mac Mini M2, running OS Ventura 13.3.1, as a shared Time Machine backup destination. I got a few slightly older macs (Mac OS 12.x) on my wifi network that I'd like to back up to this volume by mapping it to these older macs as a SMB...
    • goffredo
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    • apfs external disk time machine
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  9. M

    Need advice on a new setup for my external hard drive

    So, I've been having a lot of issues with my external hard drives for a while now, and I was thinking of re-working how it all works and wanted to pick other people's brain on how good of a setup it'll be for my needs. I currently have 4 ext. hard drives: 4TB USB 3: Music and Video Libraries...
  10. AAPLGeek

    Monterey slow to mount APFS encrypted SSD

    Ever since I "upgraded" to Monterey from Big Sur, my APFS formatted external SSDs take forever to mount. The same drives mounted instantly on Big Sur. The issue exists on both my Intel and M1 based machines running macOS 12.6.3. The issue specifically affects APFS encrypted disks as my...
  11. 6

    Disk Utility problem when formatting external SSD:s or faulty drive?

    Sorry for my bad English. I have three external ssd drives. 1 samsung t7 shield 2tb 1 samsung t7 shield 1tb 1 samsung t5 500gb I can without any problems format the t7 shield 2tb and the t5 500gb (using APFS / GUID). But when I try to format the t7 shield 1tb, using the same APFS /...
    • 6870796
    • Thread
    • disk utility external disk harddrive disk utility solid state drive ssd
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: macOS Monterey (12)
  12. Z

    External hard drive permissions have changed... locking me out?

    I have a Western Digital Black P10 gaming HDD (2TB) that I've been using for about a year to store photos, as well as other random things I don't want to save internally. Everything was working fine, I was able to transfer things in and out, view things, and do typical external storage tasks...
    • zachz
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    • external disk hard drive becomes read only hard drive permissions
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: macOS Ventura (13)
  13. M

    How to store GarageBand and Logic extras on external hard drive

    I want to start using GarageBand again (after many years away), but don't have room on my hard drive for all the instruments and loops etc (M1 Mac Mini from 2001, with 256GB). I have an external 1TB SSD connected by USB-C and it is always connected. I want to use this for the many GB of data...
    • Mookerchief
    • Thread
    • apple silicon external disk garageband logic
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  14. B

    App (Automator/AppleScript) to skip Time Machine backup and eject disk

    My wife has a MacBookAir which I have set up for her. I have connected an external disk and set up Time Machine. However, she often (really almost all the time) forgets to eject the external drive before disconnecting her MBA. And if a Time Machine backup is running, she really doesn't know how...
  15. Heliotropen

    Best cheap drive for storage?

    Hi, What would be the best external data drive - for archive / storage / backup - to be used with older macs (2013-2015) ? *My imac already boots from thunderbolt, think there is an additional thunderport in it (not certain). Does SSD lose data if it's not connected for a longer time? if so...
  16. thenewperson

    Monterey mounting every connected drive as read-only

    2 weeks ago I started having this problem where every external drive I connected to my Mac mounts as read-only, including my time machine drive. I've tried multiple potential solutions (changing permissions in the Get Info window, repairing the drives, erasing the drives) however the only that...
  17. B

    External SSD very slow to load on Monterey

    Hi all, Ever since updating from Big Sur to Monterey (about 3 weeks ago), my external SSD takes FOREVER to load its contents. The drive icon and such shows up immediately when I plug it in. It also is immediately visible with no apparent issues in Disk Utility. But when I open the drive in...
  18. E

    How long should First Aid take?

    I have an external HDD (4TB G-Drive) 2 or 3 years old. I use it mainly for TM backups, and also for archiving some stuff. DriveDx rates it as "Average 52.1%". It seems to function just fine. But I've become aware recently that there's a user ID mismatch between my current system (and more recent...
  19. halloleo

    How to avoid spotlight to read/write to an external drive?

    I have an external Time Machine drive "Follow" which I do not want to be used by Spotlight. So I made sure it is in Spotlight's exclusion list: However I can still (even after hours) here the external disk churning away. Looking at the open files with Sloth (a GUI to `lsof`) I get: This...
    • halloleo
    • Thread
    • external disk lsof mds mds_stores spotlight
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: macOS
  20. B

    Late 2013 iMac 27 - run entirely from external SSD?

    Hi there, Researching for a friend that has a Apple iMac 27-Inch "Core i5" 3.2 (Late 2013) It has an internal 1TB spinning drive and she says it's slow - of course it is! Probably close to failure too. So, without seeing the computer, I should be able to buy an external USB3 SSD (Eg Samsung T7)...
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