Yes, I see it - but I clearly set the formatting to APFS / GUID (as always). Why it turned to that Mac Extended by itself I have no idea ...
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External SSD - "Macintosh HD was ejected"
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This is really weird - I have 2 Samsung SSD discs connected to MBP and that "magician" sees nothing, only Apple SSD ... or am I missing something ? What is the point of this "Samsung magician" when it does not see any external Samsung discs ?
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OP (and other readers of thread):
Please see THIS reply in another thread I put up back in September regarding performance problems with the Samsung t7 shield drives I have:
Does this seem like the problems you're having?
Please see THIS reply in another thread I put up back in September regarding performance problems with the Samsung t7 shield drives I have:
Does this seem like the problems you're having?
Now I'm sorry I mentioned it!
There's no info at the Samsung site as to how to get this to work on current versions of macOS. I suspect recent security upgrades in macOS keep it from working. I think DriveDX requires something (a system extension) to be added for it to see USB drives…as well as reducing security settings…and this could be the same situation.
I have had mechanical Samsung drives and one of their SATA SSDs go south on me and it was only Samsung Magician (running on Windows) that found an error…macOS Disk Utility didn't see a problem. I needed that info to ease the process of getting replacement drives (via warranty) from Samsung.
Anyway, I also tried Magician and it didn't work for me even after going through a few more steps. Additionally, I had to start up in recovery mode and use terminal to remove some of the crap it installed. Puzzles me as to how it can install that stuff with my admin password but I can't just delete it.