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SSD setup and performance in WIN 8.1/10
Hey! Finally on the road to make everything work on my Mac Pro 5.1 in windows 8.1 at the moment. One thing that is different is of course that you have to install separate SSD drivers compared to OS X. I got two samsung 850 evo's in my system OS X formatted as HFS+ In terms of setup I... -
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Amfeltec PCIe Carrier board for 4 M.2 SSD modules
Bought one of these and decided to go a different route. Was used for maybe 4 hours. I’m willing to sell it to someone at a discount from what I paid from them. It cost me $448 including fees and shipping. I will sell it for $375 message if your interested otherwise I’ll be listing it on eBay. -
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Convert to APFS
hello guys! So I Just upgraded my old Mid-2010 White Unibody MacBook with 8GB RAM and a 500GB SSD. I installed a new copy of Mac OS High sierra and enabled TRIM. Also I tried to startup in recovery mode to be able to convert the drive’s format from Mac OS extended Journaled to APFS but the...- josehoward
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- apfs high siera ssd
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- Forum: macOS High Sierra (10.13)
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FileVault on HFS+ SSD corrupted system during encryption
I am running High Sierra 10.13.5 beta 2 on an SSD that is pretty full. It's 2TB and has about 18% free space. Since I am going on vacation I decided to go to FileVault2, which I have used previously in earlier versions without trouble and routinely use on my MacBooks. Forecast completion went... -
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iMac crashes repeatedly while on external SSD
I installed Mac OS on a 512gb T3 Samsung external SSD on my wife's 2013 iMac. It sped it up and was great for a while. A couple months ago it would crash randomly, but were now at a point where its crashing several times a day. We are in the process of backing up everything and about to try a... -
Should I get a external SSD drive?
Hi there, I'm a complete newbie to all this stuff but I have a 2017 MacBook pro with only 8 gb of ram, my question is that if I but a Samsung t5 250 gb external ssd what will it do? Does it make my computer run faster? Does it help with streaming HDMI or chromcast? What are other benefits? Sorry...- HALE101
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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SSD on 2015 27" iMac throwing read errors
I run DriveDx in the background. 48 hours ago it started notifying me regularly of read errors on the SSD portion of my Fusion drive. Over an 8 hour period, the read error count got over 2000! About 30 of those were unrecoverable. Right before this started happening, DriveDx reported that the... -
m.2 to SATA in 2012 macbook pro 13.3?
Hi everyone, I got a good deal on a 13.3" Macbook Pro from 2012. It has the i5 3210M processor, the stock 500GB 5000rpm HDD, and the stock 4GB of 1600MHz ram. I am planning on upgrading both the hard drive and ram. I already have a 128GB M.2 drive at home, and I was thinking of buying a M.2...- bf109k4
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- m.2 macbookpro ssd
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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PCIe Card w/ 8 x mSATA SSDs Installed Directly?
I am familiar at a baseline level with the benefits of using mSATA SSD in a Mac Pro in PCIe to speed system, especially when setup as a RAID 0. I currently have 2 x Anandtech PCIe 4-lane 4-Port mSATA SSD RAID Cards installed. So I have a total of 8 mSATA SSDs across two different PCIe lanes... -
Do I need to secure erase SSDs before selling?
I wasn't sure where to post this. I just bought a new iMac and am about to sell my previous computer which I have used as a Hackintosh (I wanted to use macOS but needed to save money to buy a real Mac). Of course I want to make sure the buyer cannot recover my data from the SSD in it. Apple...- SkyLinx
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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Need help upgrading an 2017 iMac
Recently purchased a mid 2017 base model 27 inch iMac with the 1TB fusion drive and am wanting some opinions what I should do for upgrades while trying to keep the cost down a bit. Before I get heckled for not upgrading the ssd upon ordering it the reason I bought the base model with the 1TB...- RonSwansonsMustache
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- imac (mid 2017) ram imac 2017 imac ram upgrade ssd ssd enclosure upgrade ssd
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MacBook Air mid2013 and Samsung's 960 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD
Hey guys, My friend gave me a Macbook Air (mid 2013) and i want to update its ssd, possibly with Samsung's 960 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD. But cannot find anywhere on the net if it will work or not. I have got so many mixed reviews but none of those updates appear to be 960 pro. Has anyone got any idea...- rashka
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- macbook air macbook air 2013 samsung 960 samsung 960 evo samsung 960 pro ssd
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- Forum: MacBook Air
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Got an HP SM951 SSD AHCI - Need it to work on MP 5,1
Hi everyone, I ordered an HP SM951 SSD - AHCI, and figured an SSD is an SSD. When I installed it with a PCMIe adapter, it shows up as "windows recovery" and "drive" I reformatted to Mac Journaled, but it won't let me delete the partitioned part. And it's showing up as 2 external drives. My... -
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Using external SSD as boot drive on Mac Pro 2013
My 2013 Mac Pro (trash can) came with a 1TB internal SSD which is now limiting given that I process large video files that need a lot of scratch space for rendering. I have two options. One, upgrade the internal SSD to 2TB. OWC offers these at around $1400. The second option is to boot the Mac... -
2008 iMac screen goes off after CD to SSD upgrade
Hi I recently swapped out the CD drive in my 2008 iMac to an SSD through a cheap PATA to SATA caddy off eBay, however after a while I get an issue where the screen just randomly goes off? I have checked everything and made sure that the temperature sensors are in place, as I intitially thought... -
macOS won’t load
My SSD drive from my old MacBook Pro 2012 has been installed into a new MacBook Pro (also 2012). The SSD was partitioned between windows and macOS but only windows will load. I can see both in disk utility but the main partition of macOS is grayed out and it says it’s unmounted. I want to avoid...- Dazzlepants
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- ios partition ssd windows 10
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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2008 iMac with unformatted Evo 860
A friend of mine who is a Pc repair guy with not much Mac experience replaced my dead HD in an early 08 iMac with a Samsung Evo 860 SSD. We did not format the disc. When I try to boot from old install discs I just get the folder with ? mark. I tried to boot from a bootable drive I made by... -
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Installed Samsung 850 EVO shows only 950MB of free space.
Hey, everyone! I have just installed a 250 GB Samsung 850 EVO as a second drive on my Mid-2012 Macbook Pro. Now this hard drive was purchased second hand from a re-seller. I removed the optical DVD drive and replaced it with the SSD using a caddy. The Mac can see the drive, but it says that...- paulojbarbosa
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- high sierra (mac os 10.13) mac macbook pro "13 mid 2012 samsung 850 evo ssd
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Help: Could not mount disk1s2 after erase
Hey, I'm new to this forum and, don't know much about Mac. I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012 edition. I recently Installed a used SSD (Samsung Evo 850 250gb) in place of my HD, and took out the optical drive and placed my HD there instead. I have a USB to boot High Sierra on the new SSD, which...- lowkeygunner
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- format hd format ssd macbookpro mount partition partition ssd samsung evo 850 ssd
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- Forum: macOS High Sierra (10.13)
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Boot Camp/VM from external ssd
Hi! I'm currently in the situation where I don't have enough space on my MBP 256 GB mid-2014. So before going out and invest in a brand new Mac, I was wondering if any of you have any experience with running Boot camp or a win 10 virtual machine from an external SSD? How is the performance...