hard drive advice

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...

Hi everyone, I’m sorry if this isn’t the correct place for this question, I’m new to this site. So I got an external HD a long time ago and it must have come with a copy of Paragon’s NTFS for Mac so I could use the hard drive. I recently updated my Mac to Ventura 13.3 and my copy of NTFS is...

Hi, was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what external hard drive to buy for what reasons. Does it even make a difference or are you just looking at the price these days? I'm looking for reliability, speed, and low noise level. I read that the Canvio is quieter and has a better...

So I want to know if anyone can answer this question. Am I able to save all my pictures saved on a hard drive to my iCloud account and then proceed to delete all photos from such hard drive, while keeping all the photos saved on iCloud?

I recently purchased a second hand 2014 15" MBP which has had a Western Digital Flash Hard Drive installed. I've only ever had macs with original drives. I had a problem restoring from backup (now resolved) which got me nervous: - big sur was installed - when I went to restore mode (CMD R) it...

I've finally taken the plunge and purchased a refurbished Mac Mini off the Apple Refurbished website, it comes today. Its is to replace an old 2011 iMac. I have still yet to get a screen and sort out all my external hard drives. I have at moment 2 x USB hard drives, 1 x Firewire drive and 1 x...

I have been using external WD hard drives for several years. My hard drives are all formatted for both MAC and PC. I got a new 10TB external in 2019, barely used. I also just bought a new PC, and it opens my drive, opens Lightroom, then crashes. I have now repaired the disk several...

Hi all, I could really do with your expert knowledge right now, I would be beyond grateful, I've been freaking out a bit :/ So yesterday I was working on a photoshop file I keep saved on an External HDD, nothing unusual, but after I saved the file and quit photoshop I navigated to the file's...

I just bought a Craigslist 2013 Mac Pro: 32 GB Ram, 1TB SSD, Dual Video, 3.5 mhz 6-core machine for $900. Right now, I have a 2012 Mac mini with 2 internal hard drives: a boot SSD and a traditional platter drive. I intend to get a traditional platter drive and have questions about the ideal...

Hi, recently my MacBook fails to boot into the OS. I have replaced my HDD with an SSD and tried it with other macs and it has worked so when I put the SSD into my mac. The apple loading bar gets to 75% of completion on the bar then everything disappears and there is just a grey screen and after...

Hello all Not too long ago, I tried to update my MacBook Pro to the newest OS (Mojave). I downloaded the updater etc. and started updating my software. I didn't mind, so I just let it update for itself. I came back some hours after, to a black screen, and nothing responding. The computer didn't...

my seagate expansion external hard drive is formally kaputt. It doesn't show up on my desktop or in disk utility. I am not sure what has happened. I can't do any first aid on it because it is not there. I have switched usb ports and tried on another laptop. Squat. Can anyone help with what...

I bought a secondhand Imac this year. It wa being used by a graphic design company that is now out of business. It has been running well so far, but now the storage is “maxed out” and I cannot even download iOS updates. The “system” memory is completely full (I have noticed this is a software...

Dear Fellow PPC Enthusiasts, I have seen this question posted numerous times on the tubes and in various venues. In my research I've been seeing some conflicting reports and information floating around. I thought I'd come here now that it's 2018 and ask again! I've got a titanium PowerBook G4...

Have an iMac think it’s around 2006 G5. It had Tiger installed on it, this was not my install, it seemed ok with no files all deleted. We wanted to Clean install a version of Leopard factory discs, reasonably simple procedure. These disks though came with a later 2006 MacBook I bought brand new...

So my Mac will not start since I installed the latest sierra update- it only shows the loading start-up screen for HOURS. It won’t start in safe mode or cmd v mode either. I’ve managed to get it in recovery mode and reinstalled sierra and it’s still the same, I’ve also used first aid on disk...

HI all, So I'm plugging in my external hard drive(2TB Buffalo, not portable, it draw power from a cable) to my macbook retina pro as per usual and one day I get a message stating that i "this disk in not readable by this computer" I turn it off, I change wires from firewall 800 to usb, I...

Ok, so I've run into the problem of the dreaded 'Phantom Files'... I've recently done a big spring clean on my Macbook Pro running el Capitan 10.11.6 I've clicked on get info on my mac home icon and it says 26.gb, but when I click through and click get info on all the associated files, only...

Hi! So maybe I am really stupid- but I don't think I am truly THAT dumb! I recently purchased a mid-2012 Mac Book Pro from Gumtree (a classifieds site in Australia)... went to their house, the laptop seemed in good condition and they said they only ever watched movies etc on it...The house i...

I have a late 2013 Mac Book pro with a 500GB HD. I needed to downgrade my OS from High Sierra to El Capitan. After doing this, I began installing all the software I use back on it an noticed my hard drive was now 250GB. diskutil cs list returned this drive as being 250GB and another partition...