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  1. C

    HELP! Puzzling Black Magic Tests with 1 TB Samsung T7 Shield and m1 air

    Im getting the following speeds with Samsung 1Tb T7 Shield SSD and M1 MacBook Air 8GB (Ventura 13.4.1) running BlackMagic tests: APFS (encrypted): Connected to MacBook: ~750/750 MB/s Connected via USB C Hub: ~230/180 MB/s APFS (no encryption): Connected to MacBook: ~680/680 MB/s...
  2. F

    Nice deal on Samsung T7 SSD 1TB for Backing up your Mac

    The Samsung T7 SSD 1TB in gray, blue and red is available from Amazon at the lowest price it has ever been @ $129. Looks like it is an early Black Friday discount. This drive would be perfect as an APFS bootable clone or data only backup to use with Carbon Copy Cloner. And it would work quite...
  3. joeniles

    SSK SD102 SSD Drive will Not format

    Just purchase a SSK 1TB Portable External SSD from Amazon. my new iMac 2021 M1 finds the drive but when I try to erase it it does not give the APFS option :( Thanks
  4. J

    Reformatted external G-drive shows as internal & external

    Hello! I recently purchased an external G-Drive R-Series 2TB SSD. I just reformatted to APFS without partitions, and now in Disk Utility, it is showing up as both as an internal and external drive. Is this a sign that something went wrong, or is this Catalina? Container disk3 jSSD =...
  5. Marc Tuano

    MX500 SSD CRUCIAL UPGRADE

    So im upgrading my mid 2012 mac and adding a ssd. I used CCC to copy my files but got an error so i tried Superduper and it copied completely. But now each time when the ssd is installed the laptop shuts down while booting. Any suggestions?
  6. t8er8

    Windows 10 on 970 evo m.2 PCI-e SSD

    Hi, So I have my Windows 10 boot drive on a 240gig sata ssd, and I have my Mac boot drive as the 970evo 500gig in a pcie slot with an adapter. I find myself staying on Windows a lot more for certain programs I need and the occasional gaming. I want to migrate my windows boot drive from my...
  7. J

    Mac mini mid 2010 SSD Speeds

    Hey guys first time posting on this forum ever in my life. Yesterday I upgraded my Mac mini drive to a Samsung 860 SSD but when I tested the drive speed it never reached max potential! I got around 200mb/s RW. I would like to mention that this SSD was previously installed on my Windows pc and...
  8. MacNerdy

    MacBook Pro w/ new SSD - Reboot after Wake-up or power connection

    Hi! A few weeks ago I had the built-in 256 GB SSD in my MBP Mid-2014 replaced with a 960 GB SSD from Transcend. So far everything works very well. But since the installation, it happens again and again that the MacBook restarts when it is closed in hibernation, or at the moment when it is...
  9. gaussblurinc

    macOS Mojave (10.14.6) - Update failed. Volume is readonly and SSD is broken.

    Hi! Brief 1. MacBook Pro ( Mid 2015, 15'' ). 2. Update 10.14.5 -> 10.14.6 failed. 3. SSD is broken ( adapter of this non-original SSD is broken ). 4. Error - OS can't unlock partition because it thinks that this partition has FileVault protection, but there is no FileVault protection. 5. All...
  10. Monsignor

    970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 Ejects in 2010 Mac Pro

    Hello all, I recently added in a Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 to my 2010 Mac Pro (5,1) via a PCIe Card in one of my internal slots. Since installing, the card will be listed as an external drive on my desktop then minutes after starting (or restarting) my machine it will show that it has been...
  11. Kiwi0024

    MacBook Pro 2012 SSD upgrade issue, disk empty after restore

    Hi guys, I want to upgrade my MacBook Pro 13” Mid 2012 by replacing the original HDD with a Crucial BX500 SSD. Using recovery mode and a USB to SATA cable I initialized my SSD (APFS). Then I installed Mac OS X Mojave and continued like a new device. With Migration Assistant I moved all the...
  12. T

    Wiping a MBP - many partitions on the SSD

    So I'm wiping a MBP getting it ready to sell. ran the terminal command diskutil list and there are 20 partitions there! This machine is on High Sierra with APFs system. There are disks 0, 1, & 2 which all realte to the system and thats fine. but there are 17 more small partitions (512Kb to 6.3Mb...
  13. seitsme

    Disk utility High Sierra, SSD setup and recovery issue.

    As in one of my past posts, i have had an issue with my SSD, which possibly caused by a problematic caddy. I attach a screenshot of the disk utility and SSD info panel for you to get a clue of my issue. After i removed the ssd from caddy, i plugged it in an external cheap housing from china...
  14. C

    External SSD on Thunderbolt 1

    Hi, I have a 21.5”, Mid 2011 iMac running High Sierra. I would like to lengthen the life of the machine, so I was thinking of hooking up an external SSD to its thunderbolt 1 port. Ideally this external SSD would also be bus-powered. The plan is to put the OS and all my apps onto this SSD (if...
  15. macpeach55

    Installing High Sierra after Splitting a Fusion drive & adding a 2TB SSD

    Hi, I just had my HDD replaced by with an EVO 860 SSD, and intended to use only the Evo & just ignore the 128Gb drive. However the Company who did it re-fused the new Drive with the Apple 128 GB SSD re-creating a Fusion Drive. Unfortunately this produces a drive where you cannot add any...
  16. titangears

    Sleep with an SSD using APFS?

    Will putting my Mac to sleep running MacOS 10.13.6 wear out my SSD? Are there any tips that I should do to keep my SSD healthy? For example, one of the things I do in Linux I set noatime in /etc/fstab on my SSD device. Any tips, links, etc would be appreciated.