External SSD only showing up after 8min

[Therare]

Hello,
since I use MacOs Sonoma my 500GB SSD-disk does show up after like 8min.
There should be nothing wrong with the disk because it worked perfectly on macOS Monterey.
Can someone please help me?

 

[Bigwaff]

Year and model of your Mac? External drive make and model number? Connected using USB? Help us, help you.

 

[Therare]

Year and model of your Mac? External drive make and model number? Connected using USB? Help us, help you.

mac Mini m1 16gb ram ssd: samsung t5 500gb connected via usb c

 

[Bigwaff]

ssd: samsung t5 500gb connected via usb c

Connected directly to the Mac mini or connected to a USB hub?

 

[Therare]

Connected directly to the Mac mini or connected to a USB hub?

Directly

 

[Bigwaff]

And do you leave it connected or do you remove it and connect the drive to other computers?

 

[Therare]

And do you leave it connected or do you remove it and connect the drive to other computers?

I leave it connected

 

[Bigwaff]

I leave it connected

Do you occasionally get a pop-up saying the disk was ejected improperly?

 

[Therare]

Do you occasionally get a pop-up saying the disk was ejected improperly?

No never

 

[galad]

What's the format of the disk? exfat? I have an exfat disk that runs a full disk check every time I connect it, maybe yours the same.

 

[Therare]

What's the format of the disk? exfat? I have an exfat disk that runs a full disk check every time I connect it, maybe yours the same.

I dont know how can i check it?

 

[Ben J.]

I dont know how can i check it?

w/Disk Utilities app in apps/utilities folder.

 

[Therare]

Thanks i will try it

 

[Ben J.]

Disk Utilities is for managing and formatting(!) disks, so don't do anything stupid.
You can use it just to get info by clicking on the drive(s) on the left.

 

[Fishrrman]

Another "Fishrrman stupid question"™:

Can you try a DIFFERENT USB connecting cable?

 

[chkn]

can you try to connect it with a usba cable ?

 

[Therare]

can you try to connect it with a usba cable ?

It doesn't change

 

[Therare]

What's the format of the disk? exfat? I have an exfat disk that runs a full disk check every time I connect it, maybe yours the same.

Its ExFAT

 

[Bigwaff]

What's the format of the disk? exfat? I have an exfat disk that runs a full disk check every time I connect it, maybe yours the same.

@Therare Would be helpful to answer question regarding the format of the disk.

Update: Ha! Our posts crossed paths! Sounds like your issue is the same as @galad.

 

[Fishrrman]

OP wrote:
"Its ExFAT"

Is there a particular reason this drive has to be in that format?

If it's primarily used as "a Mac drive", it should be in a Mac format.
I would recommend HFS+ (in disk utility, it's called "Mac OS extended, journaling enabled, GUID partition format).

If you use the drive to share between the Mac and PC's, consider using a USB flashdrive instead.

Reformat the SSD to HFS+ (you can use APFS as well, but I still prefer HFS+), and I predict it will run much better.

 

[Therare]

What's the format of the disk? exfat? I have an exfat disk that runs a full disk check every time I connect it, maybe yours the same.

how to disable that check

 

[Therare]

There is also an process called fsck_exfat