hard drive

Prefix: I've been a Mac user for 10 years now, even sold the machines. I am aware of how external HDs and cloud storage work. I'm in the market for buying a new (second hand) MacBook Pro, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to get used to only 256 GB of storage space on my machine. Apple's...

So my Mac will not start since I installed the latest sierra update- it only shows the loading start-up screen for HOURS. It won’t start in safe mode or cmd v mode either. I’ve managed to get it in recovery mode and reinstalled sierra and it’s still the same, I’ve also used first aid on disk...

hi I have a segate expansion portable hard drive 4TB, which I need formatted into MS-DOS(FAT) I have tried formatting but it is saying I only have 1.8TB available (should be 4TB), I think it may have a partition? (see image) is it possible to have one 4TB partition? if not how do I make...

Running iTunes 12.7.4.76 on 2017 15" MacBook Pro 14,3 macOS 10.13.4 with iPhone 8 on iOS 11.2.6 I created an iTunes library on my external hard drive (option + clicking iTunes icon in dock, create new library). I then backed up my phone but the options in iTunes were backup on iCloud or...

I have a mid-2011 iMac with Sierra. I tried to login this morning and it looked like it was going to work but then the graphics got all jumbled and it rebooted...then kept rebooting. Powered it down and restarted and it just got stuck on the rebooting cycle. I tried recovery mode but it would...

Hi I recently swapped out the CD drive in my 2008 iMac to an SSD through a cheap PATA to SATA caddy off eBay, however after a while I get an issue where the screen just randomly goes off? I have checked everything and made sure that the temperature sensors are in place, as I intitially thought...

I've heard that the accepted wisdom is that you should replace hard drives every three years because the older they get the more likely they are to fail. I've never actually followed that advice because I keep daily backups so I figure they should run until they die. What's the longest you've...

Hi guys, my late 2011 MBP is really slow now. It hardly starts up and I can barely get into activity monitor where it shows the system using 97%CPU. I reset PRAM, I tried diagnostics but they didn’t work, I restarted the computer of course. Not sure what else I can do to fix this issue. It’s...

I bought 2 Seagate ST8000NM0075 to have in my Mac Pro 5,1. They are hooked up to a Areca 1882i through the MaxUpgrades MaxConnect BackPlane Attachment (pin 3 on the sled desoldered to solve the startup problem.) One drive is manufactured dec 2017 and is fast and quiet. The other drive is...

Sorry if this is a recurring question, but trying to get people's opinions rather than a 'solution'. I have an early 2011 MBP which is becoming increasingly slow (loading programmes, scrolling through large albums of photos, system struggling when carrying out larger tasks). I am assuming my...

Hello, First time post, unsure if I have it in the right section. I brought a OWC thunderbolt external hard drive, with 4 bays running thunderbolt 2 almost 4 years ago. Has worked like a charm. When I got it, I re-formatted the 4x 5TB hard drives that came with it, using Mac OSX at the time...

I have tried to reformat a new WD 4TB external USB - it arrived NTFS (shocker). I at first tried to reformat the drive to AFPS, and that failed. The drive wouldn't even mount, and only appeared grayed out in Disk Utility (as disk4 - I have 3 mounted). Then I tried to reformat it JHFS+, that...

Hi everyone, I do photography for a living and thus have terabytes upon terabytes of 42 megapixel photos and 4k video files (Sony A7R III, Canon 1DX II). Currently, I have a very inefficient method of storing these files on external hard drives and just having to plug in whatever hard drive...

I have a 2 TB internal SSD in my Mac Pro 3,1 (early 2008). It's run on a PCIe controller. The drive is an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G. The SSD had been split into two different partitions -- let's call them NEWSSD and OLDSSD. Space was split 50/50. My objective: 1. Delete the OLDSSD partition...

I have an older Macbook Air that I've have since 2012 or so. I have used it to backup my phone for a while and now my Mac storage is completely full. I would like to take all of the information off of my computer and put it on a hard drive so that I can update all of my software on my Mac to...

So I was trying to install Windows 10 via Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro (2011). I made a new partition in Disk Utility and called it BOOTCAMP (For my Windows) As I'm planning to use Windows a lot from now on, I decided to make it take up a lot of the space. I resized the partition where my OSX High...

I am so sorry if this is in the wrong forum section this is my first time posting. I am buying a Mac Pro 4.1 and asked myself if the Hard Drive Trays from the Mac Pro 1.1 are compatible and fit in the 4.1

Hey everyone! Happy Holidays! So for Christmas this year i decided to fix up a dead macbook for my mom. I got it up and running and everything is great, however the HDD does not sit flush in the HDD compartment (It was originally my brother's computer and he was quite rough with it, which is my...

Why is this happening? This has happened with any type of storage - HDD, SSD, and flash drives. Example: “Drive A” works fine with 1TB of data. Then, when hooking it back up, my lap top turns it into “MyBook” and EFI” with both partitions showing no data. Would doing a fresh reinstall of...

I have a WD My Book that is setup as my time machine backup drive. Normally, it is connected to my Airport Extreme base station, and backs up wirelessly. Recently, my mac keeps telling me that the back drive is full. I have checked, and the backup bundle takes up about 1.1 TB of the 2 TB...