external hard drive

I have a question about a drive that I have a problem with. Hopefully some of you who are more knowledgable than me can shed some light on it. Apologies if it has been asked before. I have a Western Digital My Passport Ultra for Mac [5TB] which works fine when first connected, but over 15-20...

I have several external USB hard drives and ALL of them seem to corrupt eventually. These include a Western Digital 4TB, and LaCie Rugged 1TB and 5TB models. After a year or two, they always seem to get an error that disk utility can't fix, and my only option is to reformat and restore from...

Hello everyone! I’m currently considering to get an iPhone 15 Pro Max, and I'm trying to decide between the 256GB and 512GB storage options. Some say that 256GB is more than enough, but on the other hand, I saw plenty reviews, where a person had to get a new phone only because of the lack of...

Setting up and testing my new (refurbed) base Mac Mini M2 Pro I ran across a head scratcher that appears to point to the OWC enclosure as the culprit. I have two Acasis TBU405 enclosures each with a 2TB Samsung 970 EVO. The OWC has a Silicon Power 2TB. My plan was to use the SP NVME in the OWC...

Does anyone know if the Ventura 13.3.1 bricked my NTFS Paragon software? My DESKTOP computer was running MacOS Ventura 13.2.1 i think.... And Notes werent syncing to my desktop so Apple encouraged me to do a backup of my computer and then update to the latest software. Ok I used time machine...

Hey folks, I have a new external SSD (Samsung T7 2TB) connected to my Mac Mini M2, but it's getting automatically unmounted when I plug in an older external hard drive. The SSD is set up for Time Machine with APFS format. As soon as I plug 2nd drive in (Verbatim Store 'n' Go 500GB, formatted as...

I have this 12 TB external hard disk drive with the main partition being an 11 TB exFAT partition. The thing is, this partition is somehow broken, and when it gets mounted macOS will often display an error saying "macOS can't repair the disk" and that I should back up all the files on it; macOS...

Hey everyone 👋 Yesterday, I was away from my iMac and decided edit my upcoming YouTube video on the go. First time I’ve attached an external hard drive to the iPad Pro (2020) to work with LumaFusion. I usually video edit exclusively on the iMac. Everything worked perfectly during the day and...

Hello people. I hope I can find answers to my problem here. Here is my situation: My music library is located on an external HDD. I have manually created playlists in Music app on a Macbook pro and I want to have those same playlists show on my iMac when I plug in the HDD to it. Bypassing the...

Just got a new MacBook Pro M1 Max and I need an external hard drive to do time machine backups. I think 12-14 TB should be enough. I want to spend around $250. Any recommendations? I’ve looked at Western Digital Elements and My Book, as well as Seagate Expansion. But they all got some bad...

I recently updated CCC to version 6.0.5 since upgrading my Mac to Big Sur. I have 2 identical WD Elements drives. I keep one drive in the safety deposit box at the bank and do regular backups and swap drives regularly. With the older version of CCC I was able to have CCC see both drives as...

I received the Western Digital My Book Duo as a holiday gift and am wondering if I can make it work with my Mac by reformatting and using in JBOD configuration without hardware encryption. I'd want to be able to remove the drives from the WD enclosure and use them on their own if I ever needed to.

Hello, I cannot find an important external harddrive which contains a lot of professional work. So, I am trying to find out when it was "last plugged into" my MacBookPro. I think was sometime between Oct 25th and November 6th. What I've tried - Console / System.log files for evidence of...

Hi all, I have been having issues with my external hard drive lately. I have a 2018 15” Macbook Pro running Monterey. My external HD has become extremely slow when loading, opening, transferring files, etc. but runs flawlessly when I use it at school on bigger iMacs. I have tried resetting the...

I just recently bought a Western Digital My Passport 4tb hard drive and after I formatted it (with macOS journaled) it is already has 1gb used but I don't have anything on it. is that normal?

My Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive stopped working. It was in storage for two years. I pulled out to work with an old iPhoto library. I left it plugged into my computer for a few days. Slowly it stopped working. It started taking longer and longer to do things. Then it started crashing my...

The external hard drive I am using is formatted to HFS+ (Mac OS extended) and has about 300 GB worth of stuff. It is a 1TB hard drive, so I still have about 700 GB left and I am planning on using it to try out Big Sur. I have a 2017 MacBook Air running High Sierra, from experience I know that...

I have a 2TB Western Digital My Passport Ultra that I've used for Time Machine backups among other things for several years. Last night I connected it and it was working fine. I left it connected while I did some other things, and put the computer to sleep. When I went back to it, the drive...

My computer loads the image thumbnails on my external hard drive instantly, but my iPad Pro takes a while. What’s the reason for this?

I have a portable external hard drive that I want to use with my iPad Pro, but it drains the iPad battery. Will the following adapter allow me to browse the hard drive and keep the iPad powered at the same time? USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter https://store.apple.com/xc/product/MUF82AM/A