external ssd

Hi, I'm looking to get a new Mac and am having some trouble with specs; for context I am coming from a late 2015 MacBook Air (questionable functionality) so anything at this point is a major upgrade. I know this machine is definitely overpowered for what I require but I am looking at it because...

I need reasonably fast external storage for my Mac Studio and am sort of new to this as before I had all my drives internally in an old Mac Pro (6 drives in total...). For now I do not want to go with the most expensive options due to budget concerns and I also do not want to "build" it myself...

I'm wondering if anyone can advise this noob on best basic management / monitoring of external SSDs (not as boot). On the reasonable belief that rumours of the death of DriveDx have been greatly exaggerated, I'm persisting with that as my default disk health monitoring tool. But the history has...

As I can no longer update it, i'm having to move on from my brilliant late 2014 imac (27inch ,i7, 3TB Fusion Drive, 24GB). Have decided to keep costs down by going for the new mac mini M2, 8-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU, 8GB, 256GB SSD. Both my wife and I have iphoto library files over 350GB so there...

Monterey 12.6 iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020) 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7 72 GB 2133 MHz DDR4 I have two external USB-C M.2 SSDs. They are 2 Tb each. Both have the same issue -- They have approx. 1 TB of space missing. See the first image below. To clarify, I've never partitioned these...

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...

I recently bought a 1TB portable SSD, fully erased it and partitioned it with GUID Partition Map using macOS' Disk Utility, then added an APFS (Encrypted) volume for storing data. I was curious about whether my M2 iPad Pro can access data on that encrypted disk so I plugged it on my iPad and I...

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...

Hello everyone, I’m running a Late 2015 27” iMac with 16GB of ram, i5-6500, R9 390m with a Fusion Drive and macOS Monterey. The Fusion Drive has proven to be a bit problematic - it suffers loads of freezes and the read speed falls to below 1mbps. I decided to get a Netac Z Slim usb SSD to run...

Hello guys, About a month ago, I purchased the Acasis tbu401e SSD enclosure and a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro. Many YouTubers and users recommended the Acasis tbu401e as it works well with the M1 Mac. Initially, the read and write speed in Blackmagic was around 2600MB/s, which I found satisfactory...

I have a SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD with 4 TB capacity that's hooked up to my MacBook Pro 2018, whose internal hard drive is 2 TB. When I initially set up the external drive, backing up my computer to it worked without issue, maybe for about a week. But then I started getting regular...

I have: -2018 Intel Mac mini, which is a T2 Mac. - Its has a 256 GB Internal non upgradable SSD which is now too full and there isn't a lot I can delete - Adobe Apps and Parallels and my user folder take up a lot of the space. Plus all that Apple "System Data" that I can not seem to delete...

Devices / OS (related to issue): • MacBook Pro 15″ 2018 • Samsung T5 Portable SSD 1TB - GUID Partition Map Scheme / APFS • macOS Monterey (12.2) I've been using Samsung T5 SSD (connected via original USB-C cable directly into Thunderbolt 3 port) as my preferred startup disk for a...

I can see that similar questions have been asked in the past... but not this one exactly. I have a 2020 iMac 27". Got it at an okay price and didn't realize the SSD was soldered until it was too late to return. It was very upsetting. So now, I'm trying to get the fastest external SSD set-up I...

Hi, I've recently bought myself an external SSD with an enclosure (Simplecom NVMe M.2 SSD to USB-C) Which has given me a USB-A and USB-C cable. My SSD is a Kingston NVMe M.2 500GB. I've done a bit of reading and can understand that I probably need a thunderbolt enclosure to get better speed...

I'm looking at product similar to the images below. I see many different hubs like this mention speed of 5Gbbps The interface type is USB Type-C. May I ask if I plug such usb hub product into my Thunderbolt 3 port (I am on a iMac 2020 27"), 1) will each individual port give me the maximum...

I'm trying to decide what 2TB SSD to get. I'm not worried about the price as much as I am not wasting my money if there is no difference seen between the two types. I have a 2018(2020) Intel i5 Mac mini. I'm trying to decide between a Thunderbolt 3 or a USB-C 3.2 SSD drive. I currently have a...

Hi, I wanted to put what happens to me around here in case someone can help me. I have an iMac 21.5 late 2015 the model is 16.2, in which I just installed a Samsung 860 EVO external SSD in a Sabrent case, the ssd works fine at good speed when you use normal computer. The problem is that when...

Hello all! New to the forum here! I am going to buy the new 27-inch iMac, and I would like to hear some thoughts on the configuration I have in mind. The main use of the iMac will be music production, with use of a lot of tracks and third party plugins. I would like to game a little too on the...

Hi Everyone. I have a Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD 500 GB, that I have bought to use with my 11inch 2018 iPad Pro. Is there any way to see the statistics of the memory used and empty memory left of the SSD on the iPad? Thank you.