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    External HDD/SDD enclosures and data corruption

    I am migrating from an old Mac Pro to a Mac Studio and need an external enclosure for my old SATA drives that used to live inside the Mac Pro. I was just about to order a Sabrent USB 3.1 gen 2 4-bay enclosure (due to recommendations in another thread) when I read some random comments around the...
    • danqi
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    • corruption enclosure external enclosure hdd sata sdd usb usb 3
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Mac Accessories
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    What is happening to my external hard drives?

    I have first gen 16" macbook pro running Monterey. I keep my important files on three drives at all times. They are all less than 3 year old, have more than 30% space available and are plugged in only a few times a year to sync between them. Drive A started slowing down last week and would not...
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    Which HD enclosure for Mac Studio (6 HDDs and SSDs)

    My 2010 Mac Pro is on it's last legs and I'm finally planning to upgrade to a Mac Studio and Studio Display. Problem is, I am currently using 3 internal HDDs and 3 internal SSDs inside my Mac Pro and will need a new place to move them to. Replacing them all with new individual external drives...
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    Safari 14.1.2 Not Responding

    My 1TB HHD drive is apparently dying (see attachment). Its part of the fusion drive. I plan to swap it with an SSD drive soon. However, I have been having trouble with Safari on this iMac lately and wonder if it relates to the dying HDD. Safari will basically not even open any more. Will...
  5. breather

    Very slow USB Speed from external HDD

    Setup iMac Late 2015 with macOS Monteray Old External HDD: WDT-D3C(B) 2TB USB 2.0 (2TB Wester Digital USB2.0) with filesystem Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Problem I'm transferering roughly 1100 files (600GB) from an older HDD to a newer USB 3.0 4tb HDD and I'm getting absolutely horrible speeds...
  6. JustLegi

    Reuse 12+16pin SSD A1502 MacBook Retina 2015 for MacBook 2008

    Hello, I would like to reuse the Macbook 2015 A1502 the 12+16 pin SSD for Macbook 2008 HDD SATA. Would any one keen to advise converter or adapter product to convert 12+16 pin SSD for Macbook 2008 HDD SATA ? I have try to look on Amaz*n and eB*y but only found the 22 pin the Macbook Air, instead...
    • JustLegi
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    • 12+16pin 28pin a1502 hdd macbook 13 sata sata 3 ssd
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    Seagate Expansion Portable vs. Toshiba Canvio Basics

    Hi, was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what external hard drive to buy for what reasons. Does it even make a difference or are you just looking at the price these days? I'm looking for reliability, speed, and low noise level. I read that the Canvio is quieter and has a better...
    • didb
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    • hard disk hard drive hard drive advice hdd storage
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Mac Accessories
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    Slow Lacie Mobile Drives

    I've recently got around to running the Black Magic speed test app against my Lacie external drives and they seem far slower than expected, even for non-SSD HDDs. I have a 5TB mobile drive that seems to get around 72MB/s for reads & writes, and a 4TB version that's even worse at around 48MB/s...
  9. Moorgan

    MP 1,1-5,1 Any ideas on how I might connect my new 8TB HDD to my 2008 Mac Pro?

    My backup/TM drive failed a while ago so I got this one to replace it. The only problem is that 2 (in 4) of the holes for the screws to mount it internally are in the wrong place. I thought about returning it, but I checked and it’s like that for every single HDD of this size or larger. I guess...
    • Moorgan
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    • hard disk drive hdd internal hd won't mount internal hdd mac pro (2008)
    • Replies: 30
    • Forum: Mac Pro
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    iMac 2011 21.5" HDD Upgrade TempSensor

    Hi I don't know if that has been discussed here before, I upgraded today from the Original 500GB HDD to a 1TB SSHD. now its usually says that the fans spin up to max without the original apple HDD but I don't have this issue my fans are on normal speed without any settings made in Mac Fancontrol...
    • OnawaAfrica
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    • hdd imac2011 tempsensor upgrade
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: iMac
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    Partitioning external storage

    As far as I read so far, time machine backups require apple specific formatting of external storage. If I also want to use the external storage as exchange medium for windows and Mac systems, I need something like ExFAT. Is it a good solution to partition the external storage in 50/50? 50%...
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    External storage

    Dear community, currently, I am a Windows user. I will get the new 14“ MacBook Pro with 512 GB storage when it’s out. I am not storing videos/pictures, mainly office stuff. Now I am looking for an external backup system. In my imagination, I want to use an HDD/SSD which I stick in from times...
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    USB Disk shows 140GB used.. nothing

    hi friends - I have a drive mystery, trying to solve for a professional friend. It appears simple on the surface but there are complications. It is a Iomega typical 500GB external drive. It has a valid HFS partition of ~490GB, 141GB of that 'used', which checks out Healthy in Disk Utility...
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    Speeding up my 16TB HDD with Fusion Drive

    Hello everyone, I'm a media composer. I am using BigSur, my system is installed on 2TB m2 SSD. I want to speed up my 16 TB Exos Seagate sound library archive with another 1 TB m2 SSD via FusionDrive. So I will not install an operating system. Since "cs storage" is not working in BigSur...
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    Disk Utility: First Aid process has failed

    Hi, Today I noticed my external Samsung HDD is very slow suddenly. It’s also impossible to eject it from my Mac (I have to turn off my Mac every time I want to eject it). So I have run First Aid on it in Disk Utility. Here’s the result: What does it mean? Is this disk unfixable? Is recycling it...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 cMP 2.1 slower using SSD than HDD

    Hi guys, got a cMP 1.1 for peanuts. It was working decently (and by decently I mean astonishingly fast for a 15 yo computer), booted in 10 seconds, overall workflow was great & snappy. I wouldn't be myself, if I wouldn't try to make things better, so I took an SSD laying around (it was working...
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    before chucking my MacBookPro to the bin

    I have an early 2008 15" MacBookPro (modelA1260) with an issue on the display and i want to ask what is worth removing (apart from the hdd and memory) before chucking it to the bin.
    • zoran
    • Thread
    • display broken hdd memopry
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    How to upgrade Storage in MacBook

    Hi Friends, My cousin got this MacBook Air and now he is unable to sync the iPhone because of some storage issues (he thinks), however he would like to upgrade the storage now. How do we go about that? How to find out if it supports a M.2 or Sata one though the site says configurable upto...
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    External storage for MacBook Air 128 GB 2015 model, all legit & updated to latest Mac OS.

    Dear Folks Good day I own a 2015 Mac Book Air 128 GB, an Iphone 7+ , an Iphone XR and Ipads in addition to a Win Laptop. I'm basically a windows user on laptops, but slowly moving to Mac Book Air My basic usage of the Mac Book Air is for web browsing, web mail, apple mail client, apple...
    • Subu
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    • external storage hdd iphone 7+ iphone xr macbook air ssd
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: MacBook Air
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    Mac Mini doesn't recognize new secondary hard drive

    Hi there, I have a Mac Mini Late 2014 Server (MacOS Mojave) and currently am running it with two hard drives (primary SSD for MacOS and apps and secondary is the original Apple HDD 1TB). So far everything ran OK. Unfortunately, lately the original HDD started to report remapped sectors, so I...
    • ritchey
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    • dual hdd ssd hdd mac mini
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Mac mini
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