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External HD problem - Western Digital My Passport Ultra for Mac [5TB]
I have a question about a drive that I have a problem with. Hopefully some of you who are more knowledgable than me can shed some light on it. Apologies if it has been asked before. I have a Western Digital My Passport Ultra for Mac [5TB] which works fine when first connected, but over 15-20...- rocky_om
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Writing to External Drive with FileVault is slow - Why? How to fix it?
I have a USB3 5TB hard drive formatted as HFS+ with FileVault (full disk encryption) that I am using with MacOS Mojave. It is about 60% full and is getting slower and slower as I write additional files to it by copying files and folders in Finder. I am getting write speeds of between 80MB and... -
Odd performance drop with external SSD on new iMac Pro
Hello professionals :D I'm a proud owner of an iMac Pro for a few days now. I'm coming from an iMac 2013 with Thunderbolt 1 and no retina display. I observed an oddity with external drives and wanted to ask for advice... It's with the SanDisk Extreme 900 (a 1,92TB SSD in Raid0). While on my... -
Odd performance drop with external SSD on new iMac Pro
Hello professionals :D I'm a proud owner of an iMac Pro for a few days now. I'm coming from an iMac 2013 with Thunderbolt 1 and no retina display. I observed an oddity with external drives and wanted to ask for advice... It's with the SanDisk Extreme 900 (a 1,92TB SSD in Raid0). While on my... -
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2018 15'' MBP with 512GB SSD actual writing speed
Hi friends, I just received my new 2018 15'' MBP with some configurations (i9, 512GB SSD, 32GB Ram). I'm happy about most aspects of the machine, but sort of confused by the test results I get from running BlackMagic Disk Speed Test. I ran my test on both BlackMagic and AJA (as shown below) and...- santolie
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HDD with similar read/write speed as an SSD = similar performance?
Hello, I have a Mac Pro 1,1. (I know, time for an upgrade.) I have 2 dual core 2.33 processors and 16gb of RAM. I want to make my computer faster. I figured swapping out my boot hdd for an ssd would be a good option. After doing some research I realized that I am limited my the early Mac Pro's...