external disk

I have a iMac 2011 that need to be replaced. I'm a (solo) developer that work across all major platforms (ios, android, windows, linux, osx), and more critical , with many databases engines (sql server, postgresql, mysql, firebird, ...) and data processing for small bussiness in my country. So...

I got a macbook pro 13.3 2017. 16gb ram. Now its my first external hdd this thing happens and this is getting annoying. If someone moves an externall hdd while its connecting a macbook it throws an error, but after some update the disk becomes and unusable. I cant mounti, i cant use, gotta go...

I just bought a new external hard drive and was attempting to reformat it from ExFAT to APFS encrypted. The operation failed and now the disk won't mount (thought it still appears in Disk Utility). I have tried to reformat and use first aid but neither will work. Any help or suggestions are...

Hello! I have a qestion. I have iMac with usb external disk with MacOS High Sierra. ( No APFS ). When i power up imac, i see black screen. After 10 seconds, the apple logo appears and the booting from the external usb disk. All works fine but i need boot default from external USB ( save the 10...

I bought today an external Lacie USB-C 1 TB mechanical drive for backups (not Time Machine), because it was a good deal and I needed an external backup. How should I format this drive? GUID partition scheme? Should I use the new AFS of the old HFS. I am using the up to date High Sierra OS and I...

Super weird issue going on. Upgraded my 13" 2011 MBP with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD to High Sierra. (Automatically upgraded to APFS with TRIM enabled) Last night it wouldn't boot showing only a flashing folder/question mark. Did all of the usual stuff PRAM, Recovery Mode, repaired permissions, etc...

Mac mini (late 2012) 10.12.5 upgraded to 10.12.6 (via App Store) Finder does not show any connected external disks (USB drives); only internal HDD Disk Utility displays "Loading Disks" message and NO info on disks (internal or external) is shown Before the upgrade I had no such problems What an...

I accidentally unplugged my Time Machine backup hard drive today without ejecting it first :-/ It had successfully finished making a backup a couple of minutes before this happened and so I hope that this hasn’t corrupted the drive. I checked to see if I could retrieve files from my backups and...

Hi, I have 2 external drives (Time Machine backup disk + media disk) connected to an Airport Extreme via a USB hub. Is it possible to get Time Machine to backup the media disk connected to the Airport Extreme? Thanks.

We just got 2 new internal Toshiba 3TB drives for an external enclosure. Disk Utility refuses to format them as 3TB. Only gives me 801.23GB. The connection is over firewire. Not sure if that matters. The Mac is running 10.11.6. Any ideas on what we can do to fix this?

Hi all, I've got an infuriating problems with an older WD mybook studio II external drive. It's shows in disk utility but not in finder, and won't mount in DU. I found a thread suggesting that if fschk shows up in activity monitor, then force quit that process, but the process doesn't show when...

Hi, I have a 2tb Seagate External HDD divided into two 1tb expansions for backups and external storage, respectively. As of a few days ago I have been able to mount and access the external storage partition; however the backup partition does not mount. As a last ditch effort I'm considering...

While my external hard drive was busy encrypting, the cable got disconnected and now it does not want to finish the conversion or allow me to access the drive. what should I do, it has been stuck on 88% for a day? diskutil cs list: CoreStorage logical volume groups (2 found) | +-- Logical...

So, using Get Info in Finder doesn't show any Exif data under the More Info arrow, when using a certain external drive. For images on the mac's hdd, it works. And now it gets weirder: it also works for another external drive, same size, same file system (exFat). Any ideas what's going on?

Hi, I've just purchased a 4TB G-Drive - Thunderbolt & USB 3.0, to use mainly as storage for caches, render and previews. I've connected it to a macbook pro with thunderbolt. All working great, at first. But, switching it on suddently it renamed itself as MyBook and all the data in it disappeared...

Found this here and thought it was really cool for those who prefer the external drives be hidden. http://geardiary.com

In the past I have stored my Lightroom photos on an external FW800 drive. This was necessary due to limited internal drive space on my older iMac. Well, that iMac died and I got a new one with a 2TB Fusion drive (split into 2 1TB partitions). So I now have the space on my internal drive. My...

Hello, I have a Mid 2015 rMBP on which I will run bunch of VM's but I have not much space to hold the VM's. I am looking for a 256GB external disk which should be somewhat portable. I checked Sandisk extreme pro 256GB USB 3.0, did anyone had such an experience? Is sandisk extreme pro capable of...

I have a Macbook pro late 2011 running El Capitan. My 1T samsung external drive has suddenly stopped being recognised. It is not in Finder or in disc utility. It is however in Apple About, system report, USB. Its light goes on when connected and I've connect it with the macbook on power cord. My...

I got the JetDrive Go 300 that I connect to my iPhone. I put all my music on it and want to play it directly from the disk. It comes with an app that isn't really comfortable for playing music, and the usual Apple Music app doesn't see the music stored on the disk. All the apps I went through on...