What are people using as external drives with their Mac Studio?

[Mr. Bear]

See my post, I’m maxing the TB4 bandwidth with that setup.

It means your external drive will show as internal, when connected to Mac. Some people don’t like to see the drive icon on the desktop, personally I don’t like to hide the drive unless it is mounted inside the Mac, which this is not possible on Studio.

My drive appears as external, whether it's plugged into the front port (USB4) or rear (TB4) on my Max Studio. This screenshot is from the TB4 port, with an OWC TB4 cable.

 

[TECK]

My drive appears as external

Your Apple SSD shows as internal, the ones attached through a TB4 port will show as external. On my Mac Pro 2010, in using OpenCore to make the NVMe drives show as internal. They are installed on an internal PCIe card, which makes sense to have them marked as internal.

I personally would not want an actual external drive to be hidden and marked as internal.