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My daughter's 12" Retina MacBook 2017 won't boot. I've tried all the published solutions with no luck. We'll get her a new iPad or MBA. BUT - Although she made TimeMachine backups regularly, she says that there are some important (!?!) photos that were not backed up. I know that the SSD in this...

Can anyone let me know if a Kingston NV2 NVME M.2 SSD can work in a late 2013 MacBook pro 15 inch?

Hi. I am considering buying a Thunderbolt enclosure and an NVMe SSD that I want to use with my Mac Mini (2018) which was born with only 256GB. But is there any way to make the built-in SSD of 256GB only work as space for the system itself and so the external SSD will be the one that contains...

Howdy, I just got a refurbished MB Pro 2015 and noticed upon login the screen flickers twice before taking me into my account. My last unit didn't do this so naturally I'm concerned if this is signaling me of a potential ssd drive issue in the future? Any thoughts would be highly appreciated I...

I am looking for a portable SSD recommendation to use with the iPhone 15 Pro Max for storage of videos and pictures. My wife and I just welcomed our first baby, and I am thinking ahead about how I am going to off-load media from my mobile device. I am struggling to make a decision base on the...

I'm looking to use https://github.com/rentzsch/stressdrive to wipe and test all sectors of an SSD that is plugged in via USB. The README states: When I diskutil list in Terminal I see this after my internal drive listings: /dev/disk4 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME...

Hi all, is anyone here who has expert knowledge in erasing an external Samsung SSD securely? I heard of recommending encrypting the SSD with filevault and then just forget the keys would be enough. Thinking about it, would following method work? 1. Formatting/Erasing the SSD in Disk Utility...

Hey all, has anyone with a new M2 Air tested the SSD speeds? I’m wondering if it’s worth it to upgrade from the base storage if it will nearly double the speed like on the Pros, but don’t really want to have to go up to 512gb for it… Thanks!!

on my 512 gb ipad pro ver 3 11” I am full with 499 gb saved. It’s major item ks a massive 350 gb Photos file. I will be sailing away from internet for weeks at a time so need a working solution which allows me to get all or most of photos file onto a portable ssd. I also keep a copy of all...

I have been posting frequently on the USB on M1 Macs isn’t actually 10Gb/s? thread since owning a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro, but now that I use that Mac only for testing and also own a 2023 M3 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB memory, I thought I would put my new Orico enclosure, which I purchased via...

I've been an IPad Pro M1 2021 user and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm looking to buy an SSD to pair it with and manage space. I am editing 4k video and RAW images on the iPad and looking to use the SSD as a storage solution. The conventional SSDs on the market are a little pricey for me at the...

Hi all! It seems either the battery in my MBP has died or it's no longer accepting a charge (the MagSafe does not light up but works for other MBPs—and I'm also seeing the charging icon on the black Macbook screen—so it is being recognized). Unless you have any idea what might be wrong with my...

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I need to get a few 4GB external SSDs for my Late 2017 8-Core 3.2 iMac Pro. I want to get the fastest external SSD I can support. I'm currently trying to decide between a Samsung T7 SSD with 1050 MB/s or a T9 with 2000 MB/s read speeds or maybe even something I haven't even considered...

Hello , I'm looking for a 2TB or 4TB SSD for my MacBook Air M1. I want to put MacOS on it to have a second system for my work and keep my personal macOS safe in my Mac. Do you have any suggestions for a good-value SSD hard drive? Thank you in advance for your help

I recently sold a MBP with a T2 security chip hoping that my data is completely erased, beyond recovery. My understanding is that the “Erase all content and settings” feature securely erases the encryption key stored somewhere (I forgot the name). If I didn’t use this “Erase all content and...

I took a PCIe SSD out of a late 2013 iMac I put in an OWC external case to use with my Mac mini M2, (its an Aura Pro X2 480GB), however I forgot to erase it before taking it out of the iMac, now it won’t mount, so I’m trying to erase but it’s stuck “deleting volume”, I don’t think it’s working...

I recently purchased a Samsung T7 Shield SSD, and was surpised to find out there is Samsung's own proprietary security software installed. I don't know what encryption this is using, but I see from Disk Utility that the drive is format to Master Boot Record using ExFat. The advantage of this...

I have a Acasis TBU405Pro enclosure with WDBlack SN850X but it doesn't work as I need. I would like to use it like I use it like all my other external hard drive : mount them when I need them (for video editing) and unmount them when I no longer need them. So, even if I unmount the Acasis SSD...

I have just purchased a second-hand 2015 MacBook Pro, 13". Although old now, I plan to run Mojave on it for my wife. But I am having trouble getting it set up. It was on running on Monterey so I planned to reinstall the original operating system it shipped with - Yosemite - and then 'upgrade'...