Hello. tL;dr at the bottom,
I am in music production and just had to sell my m1 Mac Mini 16 gb ram 256 gb storage music machine. In which I booted Ventura from an OWC Envoy enclosure with a 4 TB Nvme m.2 TeamGroup SSD.
I am blessed to have found (at a thrift store of all places) a mid-2011 21.5 inch iMac. It had 2 (2 gb) *Elpida* ram stick and 2 (8 gb Crucial ram sticks) (20 gb altogether) and someone had also installed a 250 GB Crucial SSD.
There is no damage and it works fantastically.
I just removed the 2X2 Elpida eam, and installed 2X8 TeamGroup 10600 1600mhz ram (worked great, and the system shows 32 GB of 1333mhz Ram, some obviously just downclocked the ram (or something).
Anyways, it runs high sierra at the most, and the Logic Pro 10.7+ I’m used to is now at most going to be 10.4.8 (which is actually pretty close, but my separate issue is getting at least the structural versions of my other Logic projects…I digress.
On my Mac mini I booted Ventura on an OWC Envoy holding a 4 TB TeamGroup Drive (not the fastest, but with Thunderbolt and its threshold, it makes little difference as far as speed). So, now that I had to sell the mm, my question is thusly:
Because I can’t just use a small adapter to plug the thunderbolt cable into a usb-a port, (it’ll say it needs more power). Is there any way to get the iMac 2011 to recognize the Nvme m.2 SSD via a different device, or some way to get the iMac to recognize the OWC Envoy SSD enclosure (bus powered so no way to add power normally)?
TL;Dr
How can I get my mid-2011 to recognize my 4 TB Nvme m.2 so I can utilize the data on it, OR EVEN BOOT High Sierra FROM IT!?!? How can I get it to recognize the TB3/4 envoy bus powered enclosure or do I need a special adapter, or a special TB2 to TB 3 (female) adapter of some kind? Thanks so much for any help, I really appreciate it.
There’s a lot if data on there and a bootable Ventura I used for my Mac Mini I had to sell.
I am in music production and just had to sell my m1 Mac Mini 16 gb ram 256 gb storage music machine. In which I booted Ventura from an OWC Envoy enclosure with a 4 TB Nvme m.2 TeamGroup SSD.
I am blessed to have found (at a thrift store of all places) a mid-2011 21.5 inch iMac. It had 2 (2 gb) *Elpida* ram stick and 2 (8 gb Crucial ram sticks) (20 gb altogether) and someone had also installed a 250 GB Crucial SSD.
There is no damage and it works fantastically.
I just removed the 2X2 Elpida eam, and installed 2X8 TeamGroup 10600 1600mhz ram (worked great, and the system shows 32 GB of 1333mhz Ram, some obviously just downclocked the ram (or something).
Anyways, it runs high sierra at the most, and the Logic Pro 10.7+ I’m used to is now at most going to be 10.4.8 (which is actually pretty close, but my separate issue is getting at least the structural versions of my other Logic projects…I digress.
On my Mac mini I booted Ventura on an OWC Envoy holding a 4 TB TeamGroup Drive (not the fastest, but with Thunderbolt and its threshold, it makes little difference as far as speed). So, now that I had to sell the mm, my question is thusly:
Because I can’t just use a small adapter to plug the thunderbolt cable into a usb-a port, (it’ll say it needs more power). Is there any way to get the iMac 2011 to recognize the Nvme m.2 SSD via a different device, or some way to get the iMac to recognize the OWC Envoy SSD enclosure (bus powered so no way to add power normally)?
TL;Dr
How can I get my mid-2011 to recognize my 4 TB Nvme m.2 so I can utilize the data on it, OR EVEN BOOT High Sierra FROM IT!?!? How can I get it to recognize the TB3/4 envoy bus powered enclosure or do I need a special adapter, or a special TB2 to TB 3 (female) adapter of some kind? Thanks so much for any help, I really appreciate it.
There’s a lot if data on there and a bootable Ventura I used for my Mac Mini I had to sell.