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My 2011 Macbook Pro running El Capitan was running fine until recently when it suddenly decided to stop booting after getting a new charger which I assume was sketchy (refurbished apple from ebay). I believe that my fusion drive has split back into the original hdd and ssd and now I can't boot...

So for a general use spinning rust drive, higher RPM means lower latency, but it used to be the case that 5400rpm drives used higher density platters, and thus could actually give better speed for sustained sequential activity. My intended use for this specific drive (actually pair of drives...

I have a mid 2012 macbook pro that had a corrupted hard drive. I'm trying to install a new hard drive. I got a 500GB 5400RPM drive. I erased it and formatted it as journaled using my current 2013 MBP. After plugging it into the 2012mbp, I try to install Mojave using an external booter. I begin...

I am looking to purchase an HDD drive dock,preferably one that will read IDE/SATA/SSD. Any suggestions? As a side note I was looking at one I saw on AliExpress. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2-5-3-5-USB-3-0-to-2-SATA-Ports-1-IDE-Port-External-HDD/32854827520.html .

My iMAC (MB953LL/A) HDD (1TB) just died and I wanted to replace it with the spare 128GB SSD I have that came installed on a MacBook Pro Retina (Late 2012). 1. Can anyone guide me as to what is required to facilitate this transition to SSD (not sure what sort of SSD it is). What additional...

Hey guys, I just got the miserable news that my Macbook Pro mid 2012 has a major problem with its motherboard. How can I take back the data that was in its SSD and HDD? Please tell me it is possible. Thanks!

Main Topic: Upon opening disk utility I noticed my internal hard drive (HDD not SSD)was seen as APFS formatted? Not sure if it has anything to do with my hard drive's poor performance but it really feels like the drive is on the verge of death and I don't know if I should just reformat the...

I have a WD MyBook external 4Tb drive. I've had it for a few years and have no issues, however, it wakes up several times while my iMac is sleeping. I can hear noise coming from it. This doesn't bother me much, but waking up from sleep so many times can't be good for the longevity of the drive...

Haven't used this thing in 4 years. Back then I started noticing some HDD related issues & now it seems way more severe. It barely recognises in computer and boots 5 times before gettingg to home screen. It's very bad. It's a 160G last Gen iPod Classic. I have been using iPhone 7, Airpods &...

My macbook pro late 2009 crapped the bed last week and I'm simply trying to recover my user files. I took the HDD out and plugged it into my imac late 2009 by putting it into a Seagate external hard drive box. The HDD pops up like it should but I'm either not seeing where my user files are or...

Hi I've got a 27-inch late 2013 iMac with 3TB Fusion Drive, and long story short, the HDD part of the drive has failed and hence needs replacing (I've attached a much longer explanation of how I got to this point at the end for those that are interested). I took it to my local Genius Bar today...

Hi everyone, thanks in advance for your wisdom on this. I have an old workhorse, 17" Macbook Pro mid-2010 (model A1297). It's been VERY sluggish for a week or two, so I freed up some memory, ran Disk Utility and OnyX functions - it found a bunch of stuff to repair and on a final kernel cache...

Hello, I know if I remove the whole internal HDD and I install only Linux, it will not work. Therefore, I think of keeping EFI and Recovery Mode, so Linux partition would. I looked at the topic Can I replace MacOS with Ubuntu but keep my Windows partition?. But he did not say he removed or did...

I installed Debian on the USB flash drive and on the desktop I launched its installer program. Having not understood, I clicked on “erase everything, even personal files”, after 10 seconds I stopped the installation, it started erasing my main hard disk on which Mac OS X is installed. there is...

I got a macbook pro 13.3 2017. 16gb ram. Now its my first external hdd this thing happens and this is getting annoying. If someone moves an externall hdd while its connecting a macbook it throws an error, but after some update the disk becomes and unusable. I cant mounti, i cant use, gotta go...

Hello kind people of MacRumors, Today is a sad day! I got home as per usual and connected my external harddrive in order to transfer some files to it. However, it seems to be broken in a weird way. After some attempts I managed to get macOS to recognize the drive and showing it in the finder...

Hi everyone! First of all, I am Spanish, and I'll do everything possible to write as best I can in English. I have an iMac: (21.5 inches, late 2012), 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16Gb Ram DDR3 and GeForce GT650M 512Mb, SSD 120Gb and HDD 1TB. I explain a little everything I did: - I undid the fusion...

Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this but, these part do come from two old early 2011 Core i5 13," and one mid-2012 Core i5 13" MacBook Pro. I currently own three, 2.5" 500GB HDD drives that have the same speed of 5400 RPM. I don't really know what to do with them...

Hey, so I just installed a 120 GB SSD in my 13" Mid 2012 MacBook Pro. I replaced the optical drive with the original 500 GB HDD using a tray I got from Amazon. Everything is working all fine, but I wanna reduce some redundancies. So first of all, I'm using the SSD as a boot drive, and to store...

Hi! I have a 2016 MacBook Pro with touch bar but with limited storage options I'm looking to buy an external form of storage (or an internal one I can buy an enclosure for) for gaming. Only problem is, I'm not very knowledgeable about ANYTHING to do with hard drives or ssd's or anything like...