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nvme external

  1. Pahn

    A good setup for a soon-to-be first-time Mac owner?

    I preordered an M4 Mini (base model). I know that I'm going to need to buy some additional hardware to really maximize my experience. I see that there are docks available for previous-gen Minis (and there will no doubt be some for the new model, eventually). Does anybody recommend any of these...
  2. J

    OWC Envoy Express is kneecapping my Acasis drive

    Setting up and testing my new (refurbed) base Mac Mini M2 Pro I ran across a head scratcher that appears to point to the OWC enclosure as the culprit. I have two Acasis TBU405 enclosures each with a 2TB Samsung 970 EVO. The OWC has a Silicon Power 2TB. My plan was to use the SP NVME in the OWC...
  3. R

    Change Swap file location to internal drive when booted externally

    Hello, I was wondering if I wanted to use an external NVMe as my boot drive for a new M2 Mac, can I set the internal drive as the location for the Swap file, as I understand the built in storage is much faster than external options? Has anyone tried such a setup? Thank you. A couple of...
  4. D

    MP 1,1-5,1 Need help making NVME show up as "internal"..

    Trying to revive a 2010 Mac Pro, 5,1 with 144.00 boot rom. I bought a Startech NVME adapter card and 2, 500GB WD Blue NVME drives. I created a single RAID0 drive for them in DiskUtility, but...... it shows up an an "External" drive. I have not found a way to make them "internal". I've...