I used Anker NVME enclosure (RTL9210B-CG USB 3.1 Gen2) w/ crucial 1TB P2 NVME drive for external storage.
After I backup 3 of my iOS devices (using symlink) to my M1 and eject the drive, the drive could no longer mount to both M1 and an Intel Mac. The mac sees the usb chipset, but it just does not mount. Disk utility shows nothing.
I then tried swapping the nvme drive on another Anker enclosure (same model) but it did not mount.
However, when I put the crucial nvme on the Asus nvme enclosure (ASUS USB 3.2 Gen2 ROG STRIX Arion Aluminum Alloy M.2), the drive shows up again with data. Interestingly, I put the crucial nvme drive back to Anker, and it worked on both the initial one and the next one.
While I am not sure how repeatable this is, I thought I would share so if someone else have the issue, they may try what I did to recover the data.
After I backup 3 of my iOS devices (using symlink) to my M1 and eject the drive, the drive could no longer mount to both M1 and an Intel Mac. The mac sees the usb chipset, but it just does not mount. Disk utility shows nothing.
I then tried swapping the nvme drive on another Anker enclosure (same model) but it did not mount.
However, when I put the crucial nvme on the Asus nvme enclosure (ASUS USB 3.2 Gen2 ROG STRIX Arion Aluminum Alloy M.2), the drive shows up again with data. Interestingly, I put the crucial nvme drive back to Anker, and it worked on both the initial one and the next one.
While I am not sure how repeatable this is, I thought I would share so if someone else have the issue, they may try what I did to recover the data.
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