Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

external hard drive

  1. purdnost

    iPad Pro iPad pro - External Drive + Charge at the Same Time?

    I have a portable external hard drive that I want to use with my iPad Pro, but it drains the iPad battery. Will the following adapter allow me to browse the hard drive and keep the iPad powered at the same time? USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter https://store.apple.com/xc/product/MUF82AM/A
    • purdnost
    • Thread
    • adapter charge external hard drive portable hard drive power splitter
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: iPad
  2. B

    Looking for a good SSD external Drive for 2020 27' Retina 5k iMac

    I'm new to Macs and I'm looking for advice on an external drive for my iMac. 2020 27" Retina 5K. It currently has a 1TB internal SSD and I use 2TB of cloud storage. I am in the process of copying data from my old PC to this iMac and it includes a lot of photos so I can't really proceed until I...
    • BababooHi
    • Thread
    • external hard drive imac ssd drive ssd external hard drive time machine backup
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Mac Accessories
  3. T

    Missing External Hard Drive after Big Sur update, help please

    Hey everyone Just updated to big sur, wish I didn't bother. My thunderbolt external Lacie drive is now not seen in finder however is still seen on the desktop mounted drives so still have access to the files. Typically it's the hard drive that has all my photos on and is not seen by lightroom...
  4. S

    iPad Pro App that allowed media files stored on external drive.

    Hello, I was looking for an app for watching movies in remote area (with no wifi) that allows the media to be stored on an external drive (insted on of on the iPad Pro) That app needs support with playlists + playlist shuffles. Would you happen to know of any good apps for the iPad Pro +...
    • ShizumiAoki
    • Thread
    • external hard drive ipad pro
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: iPad
  5. M

    Best External Hard Drives for Videos

    I recently got into making videos, editing photos, and using the photos and videos for my new channel. I am searching for an external hard drive that I can back up all of my videos and photos on in case something happens to my computer. I am looking for an external hard drive that is probably at...
    • MacDividend
    • Thread
    • external backup external hard drive external storage hdd external hard drive ssd external hard drive
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Mac Accessories
  6. Eagle 20

    Why is WD My Passport disconnecting itself?

    So I purchased a WD 2TB My Passport mid-February and it worked great at first. Then about two months later it began disconnecting itself from my Mac. I contacted WD Support and a manager said I would be sent a brand new drive with 90-days extension to the (3-year) warranty. Long story short, I...
    • Eagle 20
    • Thread
    • external hard drive my passport disconnecting itself
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Mac Accessories
  7. Eagle 20

    How to reformat portable external hard drive?

    My WD 2TB My Passport was replaced and I cannot find the guide I used to reformat it with Disc Utility before. All I can recall is it had a partition with 250GB formatted to backup my Mac, and the remainder I believe was formatted differently to store my files. But I cannot remember exactly how...
  8. A

    External T3 SSD "Disk Not Ejected Properly"

    Hi, I have a new Thunderbolt 3 OWC SSD external drive that connects to my 2020 Mini's T3 port and even since before I formatted the external (to APFS), I kept getting "Disk Not Ejected Properly"messages as the OWC kept unmounting on its own, even during a clone. I am running Catalina 10.15.3. I...
    • audio99
    • Thread
    • catalina disk not ejected properly external hard drive mac mini owc ssd unmounting
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Mac mini
  9. C

    Console "Destroyed bonjour devices" and ext.HD

    Dear Macrumors community, Running MCP2015, 10.15.4 I was using a seagate external HD yesterday to review (a large number of short) videos. on checking those (with space) I noticed some of them where buggy, slow, glitching and sometimes impossible to watch. Thinking it might have to do with...
  10. NavySilver

    iPad Pro External hard drive keeps dropping connection?

    After two unfruitful communications with Apple’s support staff (who I assume are working from home), it dawned on me that at this point, I need people at MacRumors’ support for this issue. I have an iPad Pro 2018 updated to 13.4, which means that powered by the USB-C port, I should be able to...
  11. Eagle 20

    Which External Hard Drive?

    I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with 128 GB storage and macOS Catalina 10.15.3. Late last year I began having issues with running out of storage, and broke out an old Iomega 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive. It has worked fine as a temporary solution but now I have...
  12. ChrisDev

    Time Machine resets when External HD is disconnected and reconnected.

    I had set up Time Machine to backup my MacBook Air on an external HD. It was doing this just fine for a week. I had a week of backed up data, but just yesterday I safely ejected the HD and, today, reconnected it. But now there is only backup data for today and does not go back any further. As if...
  13. purdnost

    iPad Pro iOS 13: Import Media from External Hard Drive Directly into Apple Photos?

    Is it possible to connect my external hard drive to my iPad or iPhone to directly transfer media into Apple Photos? If so, will it detect duplicates?
    • purdnost
    • Thread
    • apple photos duplicates external hard drive ipad
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: iPad
  14. Eagle 20

    Desperately Need Help to Reset MacBook Pro

    To be honest, I am not even sure where to start. I have had my Mac three years and everyday I am having to Google how to do something or what something is. So I will try to explain what is going on, what I want to accomplish and pray it makes sense to everyone else. But please bear with me...
  15. usmcgymnast

    WD Passport not visible on Mojave

    I finally talked my mom into replacing her 2008 MacBook (El Capitan 10.11.6) with a 2019 iMac (Mojave 10.14.5). Last year I bought her a WD Passport Ultra 1Tb to serve as her Time Machine. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro (High Sierra 10.13.6). I backed her 2008 MacBook up tonight with her Passport...
    • usmcgymnast
    • Thread
    • el capitan external external hard drive external hard drive fails to mount high sierra mojave passport passport ultra wd passport western digital
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS Mojave (10.14)
  16. belikemike

    Photos and Apollo Cloud External HD

    Is it possible to save all my photos to the Apollo Cloud EHD and then us Mac Photos to access them just like they are on the Mac hard drive?
    • belikemike
    • Thread
    • apollo cloud external hard drive mac photos
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  17. Huntn

    External Hard Drive Acting Up

    I have an external 3TB hard drive formatted with MacExtended Journaled that I am using as my Time machine backup for my MBP. It is partitioned into two 2 partitions. One partition seems top work normally, I can access it, write to it, however it won't eject. In Disk Utility the non-functional...
  18. X

    How to install Mojave on an HFS+ volume

    I searched for this, and couldn't really find a related thread, just a bunch of people having a lot of issues with Mojave that really scare me! I've got an early 2015 MacBook Air running Yosemite. I have not "upgraded" until now because of audio hardware and software compatibility issues. I'm...
  19. C

    Time machine backups

    I've got a 1TB external hard drive that I use as both my time machine backup and external storage, being new to macOS I didn't realise that OS creates snapshots rather than add to the initial backup I think. My question is what is the easiest way to trim all the old snapshots and just have the...
  20. Bojack Horseman

    Do I need RAID 1 Array or just buy two external HDs?

    I'm a hobby photographer thats shoots RAW and just bought my very first Macintosh, a 2018 Macbook Pro 13" with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB HD. This is the first time having such a small HD and obviously I'll need to buy an external drive to store all my photos. But with all my photos only on the...
Top Bottom