external drives

Just as the title says - I have been at this for about 10-12 hours now, and I am completely stumped. The machine is running the latest version of Sonoma (which I'm learning has some serious issues with external drives) and no matter what, it cannot see any external volumes or devices as...

I noticed new and improved options for external drives in the Files app on the second developer beta of iPadOS 17. When you right click or hold press a drive in the sidebar of the Files app, the pop-up menu now includes options for “Rename” and “Erase”. Also, under the “Get Info” option, it...

16" MBP M1 Max, 32GB ram, running OS 12.3.1 I'm having a fair amount of trouble with external drives mounting / staying mounted, and am looking for some good / quick options. I purchased a G-Raid 24GB 4 bay shuttle- which (after following the instructions) I count not get to mount. I also...

Why do my external drives startup when exiting sleep mode? Is there a setting to prevent that?

Hi. Did macOS Monterey ban other external drives from mounting on it? My external drives (a type of enclosure with extra USB slots), including my flashdrive plugged to it mounts on Windows 11 (Boot Camp) but for some reason not on macOS Monterey, when I check which are mounted using Disk...

Hi, I'm still fairly new to MacOS and trying to learn my way around. I have several external hard disc drives and for some reason, they don't all mount/appear in MacOS. I'm not sure what to do about it or how to get them to appear. They are all formatted exFAT so they can easily be read across...

I just recently bout my send M1 Mac, the 2021 iMac. It has two Thunderbolt 3 - USB 4 ports which claim speeds up to 40Gb/s. However, when looking for an external SSD that can support those speeds, I am really only finding drives with those speeds at prices higher than a Mac. Are there really no...

Hello everybody, I was wondering what my best option would be to have a 5.25” slot for a Blu-Ray drive and a bay for a 3.5” HDD in a 19” rack format to connect directly to a Mac Pro. I would be open to building it myself based on a short server chassis, however I have been able to find one...

I wrote this on the main news thread, but I’m so late it’s buried and I did enough extensive testing that I figured it was worth a post here. The Files app is still a disaster for external drives. It has a LONG way to go to be ready in time for launch. I would not be surprised at all if...

Hi, folks. I want to buy an iPad as my next Apple device in addition to my MacBook. I've watched the entire WWDC keynote and saw on YouTube how it's easy to connect external Storage to iPad Pro, but no mention of lat st Air. As i already have Macbook Pro it seems like a bit of overkill to buy...

Im on a IMAC with the following external hard drives attached to my USBC ports. G-DRIVE. My Book. G-Grive with Thunderbolt. I have unchecked "Put hard drives to sleep when possible", but they keep going off every fifteen minutes or so. Makes my computer lag for about five seconds whenever I try...

This is probably more a request than a remark about the WD Drive Manager Utility for WD’s external kits. I’ve owned and used a MyBook Studio II (the dual-drive model, ca. 2012, with FW800, USB 2.0, and eSATA connectivity). It's steady and reliable, and in the past I've configured it using the...

Hi, I am a content creator and I use Adobe Lightroom, Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X I have a MacBook Pro and I am looking at utilising TB3 to create a desk setup to use external drives for my content creation. I have the 256GB internal drive for OS and programs and getting an iMac is not an...

Hello, I am using a mac pro 2008 with a Mercury Accelsior E2 PCI express with an internal Solid State Drive on the card and 2 external SSD drives. I am using Mac Os X El Capitan and it's installed on the SSD that is physically on the card. and this is the startup disk. When the external drives...

I'm going to be buying a new MB / MBP when they're updated in June. I'd like to add some bus-powered storage in the 1TB+ range: Seagate 4TB slim drives are pretty cheap ($109 currently). Samsung's very sleek USB-C SSD drive's are starting to come down to the affordable range (~$360 for 1TB...

I need to purchase an external drive for time machine for my late 2015 fusion 2tb, m395 i5 iMac. I just don't know what is the best choice for me. usb 3.0 or TB2? HDD or SSD? The heavy files I work with are mostly photoshop, illustrator and to a smaller degree, iMovie, FCP for casual video...

Hi guys, Got a serious problem. My external WD 1TB hard drive had 3 partitions, One major at (800GB) and the other two occupying the remaining space. I also had my time machine set up on this major partition (named AJ's Mac) Aj's Mac Aj Mixed Aj Windows - Somehow yesterday afternoon , Aj's Mac...

I have a problem with Windows 10 mounting some of my external drives (formatted as HFS+ journaled). Apparently, it does occassionally write to these drives. and this confuses the hell out of time machine when I return to MacOSX. And of course, I'd rather not mount my backup disk at all. Is...

I have been using an Airport Extreme (ac), model A1521, purchased 3 months ago. I've have it hooked up to a powered USB 2.0 hub with four external hard drives, all externally powered, each from its own power supply. 4 different machines in our LAN back up via Time Machine to these drives. I left...