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  1. rjalex

    Please help choose M.2 NVMe 4.0 4TB SSD

    Dear friend, I want to assemble a 4TB NVMe 4.0 to host my Documents folder and music production libraries and project for both my M1 Mini and my M2 Macbook Pro. After a lot of reading I would be inclined to use this Acasis TBU405PRO enclosure at 160 euros. Can anyone help me decide amongst the...
  2. A

    USB enclosure + SSD best matching iMac late 2013

    Some number of knowledge and recommendation exchange sites has been visited. Tips found either cover altogether wide range of situations or in particular deviate from situation here. In latter case in result unsure how well can transfer (those found) to goals set here. We look for compound USB...
    • Arak
    • Thread
    • best bootable clone external late '13 match ssd usb
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: iMac
  3. on the rocks

    Is SSD Samsung T7 Shield good for storing movies/series? Plus backing up data for the long run?

    Hello I have the following dilemma. At the moment I have a 4K tv always hooked up with my Macbook M1 to watch movies and series I've downloaded. I am planning of buying myself an OLED for a better movie experience. Therefore I will probably also download larger quality content as REMUX files for...
  4. D

    Portable SSD as permanent external storage for my Mac Studio

    I need reasonably fast external storage for my Mac Studio and am sort of new to this as before I had all my drives internally in an old Mac Pro (6 drives in total...). For now I do not want to go with the most expensive options due to budget concerns and I also do not want to "build" it myself...
    • danqi
    • Thread
    • drive expansion external ssd hard drive hdd mac studio samsung ssd thunderbolt usb
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Mac Accessories
  5. Brodgar

    Migration from 8TB 5K iMac to Mac Studio?

    Hello, I'm using a Retina 5K 27" Late 2014 iMac equipped with a 8TB SSD. This computer is struggling to keep up with the latest software and macOS (it's running Sonoma via OpenCore), and for years I've been hoping Apple would restart selling a 27" Retina iMac, but as everyone knows, that's not...
    • Brodgar
    • Thread
    • external imac larger drive mac studio ssd upgrade
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: Mac Studio
  6. Berti10

    iPad Pro iPad‘s downgraded USB-C port?

    How it it possible that i’m able to connect an external 2TB SSD to an iPhone 15 Pro, but not to an iPad Pro 12.9“ which has a even better thunderbolt port?
    • Berti10
    • Thread
    • drive ipad iphone ssd
    • Replies: 38
    • Forum: iPad
  7. A

    Acasis Enclosure SSD running hot when unmounted or sleep ?!

    I look to upgrade my iMac 27 for a Mac Studio with 2to ssd, but I will probably wait for the M3. In the meantime, I bought two 2TB WS_Black SN850X SSDs for my future setup (one for video editing and one for current files). I bought an Acasis TBU405 PROM1 enclosure (with built-in fan). It...
  8. K

    Macbook Pro 13 early 2015 SSD speed

    Hi guys, I have two questions with regards to SSD speed with Macbook Pro 13 early 2015 (16gb RAM, 1TB) I still keep High Sierra for this in order to run old software and by checking with Blackmagic speed test app, my unit gets faster writing speed (700-730 MB/s) than spec but significantly...
    • ken_u
    • Thread
    • macbook pro "13 2015 ssd
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  9. Z

    Thunderbolt 2 SSD

    Hi guys, I own a 2015 27" iMac, and I'm using an external SSD drive through usb 3. It's got thunderbolt 2, which is supposed to be 4x faster than usb3. Can I use an external thunderbolt ssd with the system and boot it from there? Ideally I want a 2TB SSD. I don't seem to find such devices for...
    • zalle
    • Thread
    • imac ssd thunderbolt 2
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: iMac
  10. B

    Benchmarks of power consumption for different SSD sizes? 4TB vs 8TB

    Is anyone aware of any benchmarks/stats on the specific wattage for the different SSD configurations on silicon MBPs? Would like to know the power usage numbers comparing 1TB -> 2TB -> 4TB -> 8TB Would also be great to know if there are any stats on battery life per configuration.
  11. N

    MP 1,1-5,1 El Capitan and Ventura via OpenCore on same SSD in MacPro 4.1

    Hello everyone. I have an old MacPro 4.1 that I upgraded with an OWC Accelsior S Card and an attached Samsung 1TB SSD. I installed El Capitan on this SSD and it works fine. Now I would like to install Ventura via OpenCore Legacy Patcher on the same SSD while keeping the El Capitan installation...
    • nDanne
    • Thread
    • el capitan opencore opencore legacy patcer partition ssd ssd ssd adapter ventura
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  12. Mrsaxomaphone

    8tb External drive Solutions

    Hi, I currently own a 2019 MacBook Pro with 8tb of SSD. I am a music composer and have a great deal of my samples and sessions on the drive. It's great not having drives hanging off and failing!! (Its happened many times) I am wishing to upgrade this machine now to the new M3 chip but not sure...
  13. prysma

    USB-C Hub that works with DJI-MIC + SSD

    Hi guys, i´m a filmmaker and searching for a a working USB-C hub for the new iPhone 15 Pro (MAX) which supports SSD and a DJI Mic. SSD seems no prob for most of the USB-C hubs. But does anybody own a hub on which the DJI Mic AND(!) SSD works fine on this device?
  14. A

    Thunderbolt SSD on iMac : Curious results...

    I'm looking to buy a MacStudio soon but in the meantime I've already purchased a WD Black SN850X NVME Gen 4 SSD with a Thunderbolt external enclosure (Acasis TBU405PROM1) for video editing. For now I have an iMac 27" Retina 5K 2017 3.4 GHz with a 2TB fusion drive. I did a BlackMagic test on...
    • Alain Ternet
    • Thread
    • acasis imac ssd thunderbolt
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: iMac
  15. M

    iPhone 15 Pro Recording to SSD: Is it reliable?

    Who here has recorded video directly on to an SSD? If so, what is your experience? Today I recorded test footage to my Samsung T7. During inspection I noticed that there was 3 seconds of Sutter in the video. This has now made me wary of recording to an SSD and instead sticking to the iPhone's...
  16. D

    Cheapest way to connect an internal SSD to a Mac Studio

    I have an external Sabrent 4-bay enclosure with 2 HDDs and 2 SSDs in it. One of those SSDs is causing weird behavior (like extremely long mount times, unwillingness to dismount) and kernel panics that crash my whole computer (happened multiple times now). The other drives seem to work fine...
    • danqi
    • Thread
    • driver enclosure hard drive hdd kernel panic crash sabrent ssd usb
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Mac Accessories
  17. ItsAShaunParty

    External SSD Creating GHOST Volumes? Help! (Incorrect Free Space)

    Monterey 12.6 iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020) 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7 72 GB 2133 MHz DDR4 I have two external USB-C M.2 SSDs. They are 2 Tb each. Both have the same issue -- They have approx. 1 TB of space missing. See the first image below. To clarify, I've never partitioned these...
  18. muharremozkan

    Turn iPhone or iPad into a wireless backup disk for Mac.

    Hello, My name is Muharrem. Taking a backup of my files on my Mac computer has always been a cumbersome issue for me. From the hassle of plugging and unplugging USB drives to the slow copying of project folders containing tens of thousands of small files even to an SSD, I encountered many...
    • muharremozkan
    • Thread
    • backup disk flash flash disk ssd usb disk wireless wireless disk wireless ssd
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  19. Alex771

    Exploring SSD use cases

    I look at an SSD purchase decision as answering 3 questions: What is the use case? Which access pattern is typical for the use case? Which SSDs perform well with this access pattern? Moving from the second to the third question is ideally done with a good grasp of how the SSD should perform...
  20. C

    Need help! Have problem with replacing the broken SSD on MBP 13 (mid 2014)

    Hello, I have a 13-inch MBP mid-2014 and recently its SSD stops working. I happen to have another SSD in SO-DIMM form factor retired from a mini PC and I thought maybe I could use it in the MBP to save some $$. Notice that this SSD used to be the boot drive for that mini PC so it has a Windows...
    • chsn
    • Thread
    • 2014 macbook pro mbp mbp 13 ssd
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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