What's wrong in Tahoe with usb drives

[Rfx222]

Hi, tried again Tahoe (26,2) on my iMac M3 and is a complete mess with my external 2TB usb-c ssd drive (Crucial). With Sequoia and older macos versions worked fine, all was near instant, but with Tahoe every time I boot the system, when you access the drive it shows "loading" for several minutes and you can't access any folder or file, if you insist you only get the color spinning ball. Passed these 4-5 minutes it works as expected. Seems to me it's FULLY indexing the drive every reboot of the mac. It's a nightmare and I have reverted to Sequoia. Any other user is experiencing this issue? Thanks in advance.

 

[BrianBaughn]

How is the drive and/or partition formatted?

Thanks for the post…I'm waiting for both software and hardware makers to give the go-ahead on Tahoe.

 

[Rfx222]

Drive is a 2TB Crucial X6 formatted with disk utility as APFS, 1 year old. I keep all my media files (a lot) externally and keep the iMac 256GB internal storage only for system and apps. Frustrated, I have reinstalled Sequoia a few hours ago and I now my ssd works perfectly again, faster than light speed. Have tried install 2 times Tahoe waiting for updates to solve these glitches but 16.2 didn't so I revert back to Sequoia. Apple people doesn't test basics anymore, only cares about new emojis.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Have you asked Crucial about this? A search of their website for "Tahoe" yields nothing.

 

[chabig]

I’m running a Mac Mini with external 5 external USB drives of 1GB, 1GB, 4GB, 5GB, and 5GB. All are APFS. all work normally. None are Crucial.

It sounds like you have some form of corruption going on. Have you tried Disk Utility first aid? Also, check your cable connection and possibly try a different cable. I am not familiar with Crucial SSDs but check for a firmware update.

 

[Rfx222]

@chabig Thanks for your info, problem solved, I updated firmware on ssd and now works fine with Tahoe. I never thought about firmware updates as on Sequoia worked ok, but seems something has changed on usb-c handling on this new macos. Lot of thanks!!