hard drive

Have this issue that I have a 500GB SSD and the OS setup shows it as 3.7 TB Help??? If you need more info ask me.

Hello, this is my 1st post and the reason why I joined. I have a water-damaged hard drive 6TB that had water on-or-in it for 1 day and then I dried it out. I see no water corrosion damage anywhere on the drive itself or the internal control board in the chassis or housing. This hard drive would...

My external hard drive has stopped working. The disc is no longer readable . When I connect the disc to my computer, the system asks me to format it. There are very important files on the disc. Does anyone know how to help me?

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...

I’m helping my sister buy a new home computer. She loves photography and takes lots of high resolution photos of wildlife and nature as a hobby. She wants a good computer system that will last her another 6-7 years and that’s not slow. She’s currently getting that spinning beach ball on her 2015...

Hello all, I'm running out of space on my Mac. I think this second hard drive showed up when I installed parallels. The program I wanted to run on windows couldn't because I didn't have enough memory. I have since deleted parallels. Someone smarter than me was looking at my computer and...

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 have an external Sabrent 4-bay enclosure with 2 HDDs and 2 SSDs in it. One of those SSDs is causing weird behavior (like extremely long mount times, unwillingness to dismount) and kernel panics that crash my whole computer (happened multiple times now). The other drives seem to work fine...

Hi everyone... I bought a Seagate IronWolf HD on eBay two years ago. The seller said it was new, unopened. It was factory sealed. I decided to sell it last month. The buyer said it had over 1700 hours on it. I refunded his money. He sent it back. I tested it. It was unformatted! I had to...

My M1 Mac Studio and all devices are connected to power strips. Whenever I leave work I shut down the computer and then turn off the switches on the power strips, so that everything is disconnected from power completely. I have to do it like that and it never was a problem since all external...

I have a Sabrent DS-SC4B Docking Station connected to my Mac Studio via USB-C. In it there are 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs, which I previously used in my old 2010 Mac Pro. I expected the drives to perform better in the new enclosure since they are now connected via SATA 3, while before it was SATA 2 in...

Which external enclosure would you recommend for use with an M1 Mac Studio and a mix of SATA HDDs and SSDs? I am looking for 4 drives in one enclosure, more or less. When I last looked into this over a year ago I settled on the Sabrent DS-SC4B. Is that still a solid choice or did something new...

Can I add the Hard Drive from my old Power Mac G5 to my old Mac Pro 2012 ? I like to retrieve the old Data from my Power-Mac ! 😀

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...

I use iCloud to sync my photos and videos across devices as well as serve as a short-term backup. I don’t want to use iCloud as a long-term backup, however. I like to keep my iCloud library small as I’ve found that Photos runs much more efficiently than hosting my entire vast library. So, I...

I recently picked up an iMac G3 333 and ever since when I’ve plugged it in I’ve gotten the “Sorry, a system error occurred”, which restarting did not solve. There was some talk of the hard drive being faulty when I picked it up, so I’m leaning towards getting a new one as a solution. What would...

Hi all, I recently purchased a Macintosh SE with the flashing floppy disc with the question mark. Knowing it had a bad hard drive, I went and grabbed a parts computer with a known good hard drive. Booted right up, worked great, was playing games and everything. I turned the machine off and came...

I bought a 16tb SATA drive and stuck it in an external case linked by USB. Formatted it just fine with HFS. Then after a month I wanted to try sliding it into the case and use a direct connection through SATA but the system doesn't see the formatted drive. Any ideas that would help?

Hello! First of all I like to disclose that I don't know much about computers, so I hope I'm using the right terminology. I just updated to Mac OS Monterey. During the update, a new partition was automatically made as a backup (called "Nieuw"). When the software update was done, I tried to put...

I am doing photo and video editing as well as some 3d (Blender) and will be updating from a 2010 Mac Pro. In the Mac Pro I use a dedicated 1TB SATA SSD as a scratch disk for caches and such. I was taught that it's always best to keep a scratch disk that is physically separate from the system...