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I made the dumb decision to spend over $4000 on a 16" MBP about 6 months ago and only got 1TB of disk space. Right now there's 80gb free and that'll go pretty fast. From everything I've ready the HD is not upgradeable. Has anyone ever bought an external SDD and used a hard drive sleeve so it's...

Hello there, I have a question about swapping HDDs out of LaCie 1Big Dock (TB3 version). I use two of them in two different locations. I've read in a review that the TB2 version of 2Big Dock Raid units create a unique Raid ID for each disk inserted and, unbeknown to the user, if you swap the...

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...

Hi, I want to buy a new HDD and wonder if it is possible to partition this HDD and have Time Machine backup on one partition and SuperDuper on the other? In addition, is it wise to get an SSD or is an HDD sufficient for this type of backup? I have a Mac with a 2TB internal SSD, maybe you have...

Hi Guys I have a 4tb Toshiba external drive which is brand new and working normal on windows 11. its formatted in exFAT and GPT disk type. When the disk is connected to my MB it doesnt mount at all. I tried running FirstAid and manually mounting it from DiskUtility but "Could not mount...

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...

Hello everyone, I was recently gifted a MP5.1 mid 2010 and am a brand new MAC user. Running Mojave with a Radeon Sapphire RX580, 16 GB Ram. My Mac does not recognize any of the 4 Sata backplane ports on the logic board. The person who gifted it to me confirmed they were working. Mac OSX is...

Heyo. I have a HDD I've had successfully connected directly to a TP-Link router and used via SMB for over a year. I wanted to do some organization so I hooked it up directly to my Mac Mini. I'm getting the diskenter error 49244 fail to mount error. This HDD is formatted MacOS Extended Journal...

Hello everyone, new to the forum and my first post. I was recently gifted a MP5.1 mid 2010 and am a brand new MAC user. Running Mojave with a Radeon Sapphire RX50, 16 GB Ram. I have owned iPhones and iPads for years but never switched from PC to Mac, a slight learning curve to say the least...

Hi! I'm looking for a backup drive (~3TB, not to be used with Time Machine). Is HDD really the safer option compared to SSD? Are there good options with Thunderbolt? Should I use AFPS or HFS+? Thanks for your respective 2 cents!

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've put the internal drives from my old 2010 Mac Pro into a Sabrent Docking Station enclosure to connect them to my new Mac Studio. 2 of them are HDDs and 2 are SSDs. Would you convert the SSDs to APFS? And is there any risk involved in that conversion? Of course, I'd make a backup first. But...

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...

Just purchased a 2nd hand 2019 iMac (21.5 model - 3.2 i7). It was advertised as having a 1TB SSD, but upon receiving it and firing it up, it appears to have a 1TB SSD AND a 1TB HDD (see screenshot). Has anybody seen this configuration before? Would it originally have been set up as a Fusion...

I have two Seagate One Touch HDD 4Gb external drives. One connected to USB, one connected to USB-C on my Mac Mini M1. I have just upgraded to Ventura and it is now only seeing one HDD at any one time. I have tried: Putting both on USB Putting both on USB-C Swapping Cables In disk utility...

Hello all, I was recently using My Macintosh Plus just for a little fun, and everything was going smoothly. However, after turning my hard disk back on after it had been off all day, it would not start up again. I'm not sure exactly what's wrong with it, since not only is the hard disk not...

I bought a Toshiba External Drive yesterday for my Macbook Pro. I connected it and it started to backup everything to this new time machine. However, the mounted drive shows a spinning icon next to it on the finder window. Is it supposed to be spinning continuously, or is it just for the...

I am moving from Sierra to a new Mac with Monterey and this is my first contact with APFS. Currently, I am setting up an 18TB Western Digital HDD for TimeMachine and an 12TB WD HDD for clone backups (will be using either SupderDuper! or CarbonCopyCloner). Which file system should I choose...

I tried Googling this but only get generic answers or solutions to different problems. I recently reacquired a Mac Pro (7,1) and it worked well initially. When I added 2x spinning disks and a SATA ssd using a sonnet J3i, it takes a long time to boot. The spinning indicator spins for 3-4...