format ssd

Recently I have bought a Samsung T7 Shield 4TB SSD drive. I would like to protect the data on this particular drive. I wouldn’t mind if it’s with a password or encryption. As long it has some protection which is reliable. Reliable as in for instance it doen't depend on software updates for it to...

Is there a way to find out the last date a mac hard drive was formatted (ie. log file, etc)? Currently using macOS Monterey on Macbook Pro 15'' 2015.

Heyo All I went thru some of the post but could not find a satisfactory answer. I got a 4TB external ssd in a very small form format, (size of a matchbox just 1/3 of the thickness) for about the same amount I would pay for the aluminium casing it is in. However, as soon as I try to format it to...

Hello all, My iMac (2011 i think) seems to have all but died. A few seconds after switching on, the screen goes white and striped, and it keeps rebooting itself. Too old to risk money on a repair, I feel. I would like to dispose of it, or give it away if someone can make use of it, but need to...

Hi, We are a sound studio, and we are about to buy 2 Mac Studio. I'm struggling between 2 options on how to store our data. Currently, I'm using the latest intel mini with an external SSD to work on my protools sessions. That drive is the OWC TB3 drive which I love, but there are some...

I bought a brand new Samsung T7 SSD, and I used macOS's Disk Utility to format (erase) it in APFS(Encrypted), scheme: GUID Partition Map. Before erasing (brand new), "Used" space was 108,5 MB. After first erasing as APFS(Encrypted, scheme: GUID Partition Map), "Used" space was just 20 kb. Then I...

So, I have based all my wrong doing to this poor mac air 2017 into one wrong move. I originally didn't think that there would be a problem formatting the entire drive and putting Manjaro (a form of linux) on the computer as the only OS. All things considering, that's actually when I lost the...

I purchased an Aura SSD 1TB drive a few years ago. It came with an enclosure for the 256gb drive, which i used as a backup drive. I installed the OWA 1tb SSD on my 2013 MBP. It worked great without any problems. Last month, I bought a new M1 Macbook pro. I traded in my old one. Prior to...

Hi, I'm new to this forum so I hope this post is okay. I just upgraded my mid 2014 Macbook Pro's SSD to a 240gb OWC Aura Pro X. All fine so far, now I need to format the drive. I have booted my mac holding down cmd opt R and have chosen option 4, disk utility. My question is: which disk do I...

Hey, I'm new to this forum and, don't know much about Mac. I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012 edition. I recently Installed a used SSD (Samsung Evo 850 250gb) in place of my HD, and took out the optical drive and placed my HD there instead. I have a USB to boot High Sierra on the new SSD, which...