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  1. sjbeau

    Excessive data reads/writes

    Hi... I am new to this forum and definitely not a geek. However I watch my activity monitor consistently and have noticed the disc reads/writes are sooo fast, to the tune of 30GB+ in 36 hours. Is that normal? I can't find anyone whose iMac or MBP can go that fast. And for what reason? CPU usage...
  2. I

    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 Not Booting

    *URGENTLY NEED HELP ON MY MAC PRO 5, 1* Hello, I bought a 5, 1 quad core 2.8ghz mid 2010 mac pro the other day from a guy on craigslist, but didn’t test it before taking it off his hands because he assured me it was working and had tested it in the morning. When I got home and booted it up, I...
  3. 1

    Unable to encrypt MicroSD card

    I have a Sandisk Extreme 128GB, my intention is to use for my music library on Macbook Pro (Mojave). I would prefer to use it encrypted but have run into issues with disk utility. The option to partition is greyed out in disc utility and the option to encrypt in Finder is not there at all...
  4. M

    Samsung T5 as bootdrive

    Hey guys, I bought the T5 to use it as the boot drive of my 21inc iMac late 2015. I now tried to set it up like explained in videos or in Apple Support Thread. The following problem occurs: The SSD is never shown, when I try to choose my boot drive. I formated it as extended journaled... but...
  5. silentearth

    partition troubles

    Hello all, I’m looking for assistance with my iMac that I’ve been trying to get ready to list on the market, however I tried accessing Disc Utility from the boot menu with a wireless Windows keyboard (holding down the Alt key which is equivalent to the option key on the Apple keyboards) but it...
  6. S

    Using built in ssd raid v my existing 4tb raid so

    recently started using a late 2013 mbp for casual editing in fcpx and noticed, it performs much better probably down to it running off a ssd. So what I'd like to do is raid 2 or 3 ssds and make the 4tb raid my new home directory - is using a raid ok as a home directory? The boot drive is a...
  7. W

    Drive shows in system profiler but not disc utility

    Hey everyone, I have a m.2 installed in my 2009 Mac Pro pci slot, the disc shows in system profiler but not in disc utility. I checked terminal using (diskutil list) and it does not show up. I tried different pci slots, restarting, reset pram and SMC, I even tried reinstalling the OS but still...