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Hello all, So yesterday after work my iMac (2012 27”) somehow reset itself to the options to boot a new Mac. I attempted to go through the steps to restore from TM backup and also as a new clean install. Both options were not able to find the internal HDD. I am assuming that is a bad thing. I...

AS per the title, anyone got any recommendations as to decent external enclosures for a 250GB SSD that I am planning to use on my iMac as a boot drive? I was very surprised to see that the enclosure can have a significant impact on the transfer speeds as I thought it would be simply a SATA and...

When being used in JBOD mode, does the Qx2 enclosure support SMART?

I'm finding it hard to find a drive enclosure. I need a two bay enclosure that supports JBOD. I use this as a large volume for video editing. My current ensloure is about 5 years old and is having an issue with either power supply or the power port, as it keeps turning off after few seconds...

I’ve seen a lot of threads about external drives here and was wanting to jump in for a little more specific advice. I have a new 2017 iMac i7 3Tb Fusion drive and do a lot of Lightroom and Photoshop as well as occasional video editing. I’m coming from a 2012 and had the same 3TB drive and...

Hi all, I recently bought a WD Blue 3.5" HDD 7200 RPM and put it in an Orico HDD Enclosure to make it an external drive. However, when I turn on, the drive create a very annoying low frequency humming noise and it's pretty loud. I have never experienced that with my old Samsung drive in the...

This is somewhat unusual of a request and I'm curious if there are any thoughts from this community. I have a project where I need to mount an iPhone to pole or sign and protect it from mild tampering attempts. The iPhone is going to run an app that uses the camera to capture vehicle...

I have an older Mac that I'd like to speed up a bit. On of the most obvious things I can do is replace the internal 5400 RPM drive with an SSD. I've done it before, but cracking an iMac apart is a painful experience I'd rather not relive. So I hit upon the idea of putting the SSD in a Firewire...

Hey everyone, Im looking to buy an external enclosure for my Mac Pro equipped with esata/USB 3 connections. I would like to set it up in raid 10 or 5 with carbon copy cloner. Wise choice, dumb decision, thoughts, recommendations? I was wondering if anyone has some benchmarks to share? Thanks, Matt

hey there, My current battery on my Macbook Pro is now ready for replacement. It still will hold charge for about 2-3 hours of regular use, so I will be replacing it. But was wondering if there was an enclosure that the old battery could be put into to turn it into a battery power bank. If...

Not sure if this is the right subforum, but here goes... A few weeks ago, I broke my 2012 MBA while doing the whole "see if the computer can drink a glass of water" trick. I went to the Apple store and got the SSD card taken out since I don't have a pentalobe screwdriver, but they don't help...