I started having some strange permission errors and random crashes on my 2011 27" iMac 22gb RAM with an added 500gb Samsung EVO SSD drive (a bit over 1 year old). Problems started out small and got progressively worse and after a few fresh installs and a lot of trouble shooting I narrowed it down to an issue with the SSD and have been running macOS off the internal 1TB optical drive which is very stable but so slow.
I have a feeling that it might be a connector or cable issue but before I pull the machine apart and replace the sata cable, I thought to ask what other people's thoughts are. At the moment the SSD mounts, I can format it but if I attempt to save on the drive I get a -36 error. Would this error code suggest the possibility of it being a cable issue? Any hints??
I don't want to fuss with it too much as I have a fair amount of work I need to get done with the machine so I'm tossing up with the idea of either replacing the cable and using the 500gb SSD as a boot drive internally or I sort out a daisy chain setup of sorts and boot the currently internal SSD externally via the thunderbolt 1 to thunderbolt 3 adapter to an external case hopefully with a second enclosure containing my working Lightroom catalogue SSD connected at the end of the chain. What would the speeds be like running the SSD externally vs internally?
Currently my internal optical drive is giving me 103.1 MB/s write and 110.7 MB/s read which is killing me as I'm pushing around multiple huge high res 600MB+ image files within the catalogue.
I have a feeling that it might be a connector or cable issue but before I pull the machine apart and replace the sata cable, I thought to ask what other people's thoughts are. At the moment the SSD mounts, I can format it but if I attempt to save on the drive I get a -36 error. Would this error code suggest the possibility of it being a cable issue? Any hints??
I don't want to fuss with it too much as I have a fair amount of work I need to get done with the machine so I'm tossing up with the idea of either replacing the cable and using the 500gb SSD as a boot drive internally or I sort out a daisy chain setup of sorts and boot the currently internal SSD externally via the thunderbolt 1 to thunderbolt 3 adapter to an external case hopefully with a second enclosure containing my working Lightroom catalogue SSD connected at the end of the chain. What would the speeds be like running the SSD externally vs internally?
Currently my internal optical drive is giving me 103.1 MB/s write and 110.7 MB/s read which is killing me as I'm pushing around multiple huge high res 600MB+ image files within the catalogue.