Apple Seemingly Unable to Recover Data From 2018 MacBook Pro With Touch Bar When Logic Board Fails

[RobbieTT]

I hear you. My little M.2 drive is so small and thin that it can travel in my wallet. As it is bootable my entire backpack can vanish and I am still good to go. Beyond that I have my NAS at home that I can remote into plus iCloud or even screen-sharing into my iMac from anywhere with any Mac with ease.

 

[cocoua]

I hear you. My little M.2 drive is so small and thin that it can travel in my wallet. As it is bootable my entire backpack can vanish and I am still good to go. Beyond that I have my NAS at home that I can remote into plus iCloud or even screen-sharing into my iMac from anywhere with any Mac with ease.

Well, now I have envy of your set up!

All this sounds as I ’d need to save a bit more

 

[MobiusStrip]

Apple products are "thin and elegant," unless you include the wad of adapters, wires, condom, and external power source you have to carry all over the place to make them usable.

 

[adib]

I travel a lot and I need to travel light, this means I need to travel with and extra external drive, actually is a 3.5” hdd comected to a sata dock... OK ready to spend another 150usd in a new gadget
[doublepost=1541237980][/doublepost]
Oh really? Even when tou are on the move? Dont forget your 4tb tine machine setup when you are travel light!

3.5" 4TB USB hard drives are now ~$200 (Seagate Backup Plus Portable). Personally I rotate two 3.5" hard drives for backup (2TB, bought three years ago) when traveling to my parents' and keep a few "legacy" 5.25" drives in my apartment for extra backup sets.

 

[Spazturtle]

You can plug a USB HDD into your router and use that as one of your TM backups, that way you will be able to backup wherever you have an internet connection.

 

[MobiusStrip]

Yes, because I'm sooo worried about encrypting a drive that's soldered to the motherboard. Talk about a BS rationale for another anti-customer regression.

Years ago, Diebold was heavily touting "triple-DES encryption" between the keypad and the CPU in its ATMs. As if anyone was taking apart ATMs to intercept serial communications! Predictably, criminals built skimmers that fit over the front of the ATM, rendering the "triple-DES" feature irrelevant.

When you don't have useful ideas, breathlessly tout useless ones.

 

[adib]

Yes, because I'm sooo worried about encrypting a drive that's soldered to the motherboard. Talk about a BS rationale for another anti-customer regression.

Years ago, Diebold was heavily touting "triple-DES encryption" between the keypad and the CPU in its ATMs. As if anyone was taking apart ATMs to intercept serial communications! Predictably, criminals built skimmers that fit over the front of the ATM, rendering the "triple-DES" feature irrelevant.

When you don't have useful ideas, breathlessly tout useless ones.

Maybe, but T2 enables FileVault encryption without any penalty to disk I/O performance. Without T2 enabling FileVault caused some measurable drop in I/O speed.

Note that even when the drive is soldered, *target disk mode* and booting from external drives can access it. Without FileVailt, your files are wide open for inspection.

 

[Doc C]

I hear you. My little M.2 drive is so small and thin that it can travel in my wallet. As it is bootable my entire backpack can vanish and I am still good to go. Beyond that I have my NAS at home that I can remote into plus iCloud or even screen-sharing into my iMac from anywhere with any Mac with ease.

This sounds interesting - could you give a few details?

Like what drive do you use? And enclosure?

I am in the process of trying to set up my NAS to do the same as well, but I just can’t get it to work. What sort of NAS do you have?

Thanks for your advice

 

[RobbieTT]

The choice is yours when it comes to M.2 drives so pick your brand/price/size that works for you. There is quite a choice with enclosures but I have had excellent result with the Transcend TS-CM series so can recommend them:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N6HQS02/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

I use a Synology 1517+ as my main NAS - the OS (the excellent DSM) and applications cannot be beaten and makes things like remote access a breeze. The same cannot be said of some of the Synology hardware choices, particularly the Atom CPU which is rather gutless compared to an equivalent QNAP NAS.

 

[Uridium]

Well if they have the tool, they sure as hell ain't using it. Twice I had to have my 2016 MBP TB board replaced and nothing was ever recovered

I work in an AASP and we do recover data from the 2017 logics often. Mainly liquid damaged logic boards but it works fine.

 

[jerryk]

The choice is yours when it comes to M.2 drives so pick your brand/price/size that works for you. There is quite a choice with enclosures but I have had excellent result with the Transcend TS-CM series so can recommend them:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N6HQS02/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

I use a Synology 1517+ as my main NAS - the OS (the excellent DSM) and applications cannot be beaten and makes things like remote access a breeze. The same cannot be said of some of the Synology hardware choices, particularly the Atom CPU which is rather gutless compared to an equivalent QNAP NAS.

Any issue with reliability of your Synology? I have a Synology 918+ with Celeron processor, and like it. But, there are some guys on YouTube seeing power supply failures.

 

[RobbieTT]

No issues at all on my 1517+.