I have a Mac mini M4 with one of those third-party docks made specifically for this model. I have an old external RAID enclosure and I want to copy a few terabytes' worth of files from it to a single-disk external USB drive. I'm hoping to use my 2TB NVMe SSD drive in the dock as a "middleman"...
I recently bought a base Mac mini M4 and one of those third-party hubs that goes right under the Mac mini and fits it perfectly. It also has an NVMe slot so I was able to get a 2TB SSD for some additional storage. Coming from the land of external enclosures, where I typically only connected...
I have a M4 Mac mini and just want to boot from the main HD - however I wanted to EVERYTHING in the external drive. I purchased the 256gb version which is why I want everything on the external.
I have a 4TB external drive and it seems that everything is doubling up on my external as a shortcut...
I will update my Kingston Fury Renegade SSD to latest firmware but I found only a Windows Tool from Kingston which not work on my MAC Studio M4 Max and latest macOS 15. I don't have a PC, is there any other solution to update the Firmware? I don't understand why is so complicate to update the...
So it's possible to upgrade the internal storage of a new Mac, but my response to this video is HELL NO!
I bought an external 8 TB Samsung SSD, and it was a fraction of cost of buying that much internal storage at the time of purchase and way easier than trying to replace the storage. For the...
I’ve got a hunch my SSD is dying. During the last few days my trusty 2015 MacBook Pro has been experiencing random freezes with a spinning beach ball when using various applications. This includes severe crashing - a hard lock/freeze requiring a power cycle while on. Today there was an...
Hi. After some research here I've decided on a TB3 SSD/enclosure to use as the boot drive on my 2017 imac.
Specs: 5k 27inch/4.2Ghz Quad C I7/24GB
Am currently using both TB3 ports for an external screen and audio interface. Do some enclosure have multiple outs or am I looking to add a TB3 Dock...
I’m nearing retirement and face a daunting prospect: downsizing a HomeLab. (First World problem for sure.)
I’m hoping to retire to a warm tropical island and I think my next Mac has to be a MacBook Pro as that’s my best hope for repairability in a place with potentially limited computer...
I'm looking at adding onto a 1TB internal storage M4 Pro MacBook Pro with an external 4TB SSD. I'm thinking about choosing between either an Acasis TB501Pro (and putting a Samsung 990 Pro in it), or getting a Sonnet Echo 13 Hub with the 4TB Kingston drive in it (I have no problem with Kingston...
Good day everyone. I have just joined this forum and after unsuccessfully searching for an answer to my question, I have posted it here. If this is the wrong forum, please move it to the correct one
I have a late-2013 27-inch iMac14.2 which had a 3TB Fusion Drive (the SSD Blade was/is 128GB)...
My 2018 intel MacBook Pro T2 is toast. I’d like to use the SSD in an enclosure, but the only one I’ve found is from iFixit, and says it’s good up to 2015. Is this possible?
Is it a standard SATA port in there that will happily accept any regular SATA device, or will I need an adapter of some sort? I know about the mounting frame, just asking about the SATA connector/interface itself.
Alternately, does this model allow booting from the SATA port the SuperDrive is...
Is it a standard SATA port in there that will happily accept any regular SATA device, or will I need an adapter of some sort? I know about the mounting frame, just asking about the SATA connector/interface itself.
Alternately, does this model allow booting from the SATA port the SuperDrive is...
I have tried searching all over but can't seem to find an answer, here or elsewhere. I recently picked up the base M4 Mini with the 256GB drive to explore App development. I have some experience with other programming but Xcode is new to me.
I simply want to have the Xcode software installed on...
It came from my dead 2014 MBP.
What form factor or whatever is this? The connector on it does not look like all my other M.2 drives. What kind of USB enclosure do I need to connect this to my new Mac?
Hi folks!
After updating my MBA M1 to Sequoia 15.2 (24C101) I have very slow write speed on my external SSD(Samsung T7 Shield).
Write speed is slower than an old HDD.
I thought my drive is dying, but it has normal speed with Windows laptop and Samsung app shows good health status.
Any ideas?
I just bought a brand-new Macbook pro M4 max directly from Apple. After checking the SSD’s SMART data using DriveDx and smartctl , I noticed something unusual: it shows about 130 power cycles but only around 3 total power-on hours. This seems odd to me why would there be so many power cycles in...
Blackmagic results give a consistent 3100 speed for both read and write.
Amorphous Disk Mark gives a more detailed measurement:
For a comparison the internal SSD is around 5600W-4880R and here is its Amorphous:
which shows that in sequential r/W the internal is faster but much to my surprise...
Hello,
I have a new M4 Max MacBook Pro 16”
I also purchased a new Sabrent SSD Enclosure (EC-SNVE) https://amzn.to/4i5i8EV with a new Sabrent 8TB SSD https://amzn.to/3OunyvE
Some facts of my problem:
1. The drive connects and is formatted in APFS (Encrypted)
2. Once I open a folder from the...
I am looking for an external SSD / 40Gpbs Enclosure primarily to use with macos but after researching a lot I am still confused about the current status of TRIM.
1) If macos (Sequoia) does not support TRIM over USB then how does Samsung (T series) or other brands external SSDs support this...