Why are these icons different?

[Jashue]

I have two external SSDs — both Western Digital — the only difference being capacity. They are both housed in Acasis enclosures. Why are the icons different?

 

[chabig]

The one on the left looks like it's using a custom icon that you or someone else gave it. To delete a custom icon, click on the small icon at the top left of that info window and press delete.

 

[joevt]

Check for custom icons:

ls /Volumes/*/.Volume*

 

[Boyd01]

The one on the left looks like it's using a custom icon that you or someone else gave it.

I don't think so. All my external disk icons look like the one on the left in the OP's screenshot. For example...

"ortho" is a 2tb WD Black USB SSD, "work" is a 2tb Samsung T7 external SSD. This is on a 2018 Mini currently running Monterey, but it was still on Catalina when I got those two disks. Both are formatted as APFS but were initially formatted for Windows when purchased and I wiped them with Disk Utility. I have not used any custom icons.

An external hard disk formatted as MacOS Extended also has the same icon. I also have two 4tb Samsung T7's and an 8tb Samsung T5 with the same icons and they were purchased after I upgraded to Monterey.

 

[Fishrrman]

Looking at the pics in the original post...

It looks like the icon on the left is the "default" icon used by the OS.
The icon on the right is a "custom" icon.

OP:
Do you want them both the same?
Or... doesn't make any difference?

As I think about it, it might be better to have them DIFFERENT, so as to make the two drives easier to distinguish from one another...

 

[TumbleDryer]

Different connection types?

 

[Boyd01]

FWIW, this is a WD hard disk connected to my 2018 Mini USB-A port. Same default icon as the SSD's connected to the USB-C ports.

 

[Gregg2]

Yes, my WD icons look like the left one in post #1 also. I agree that having different style icons for two different drives would be my preference. Not such a bad thing, but curious.

What is the difference in age between the two? Maybe WD changed their icons.

Edit: Maybe that's not their prerogative.

 

[izzyq]

I am having the exact same experience as the OP. (I don't have permissions to post screenhots in macrumors as I'm a new member, however will try and describe my set up)


I have a Samsung 1TB T5 plugged in via a USB C to a USB Hub to my mac
I have an 4TB SSD also using an Acasis enclosure plugged directly into my mac studio thunderbolt port.

My icons look exactly like the OP's and I am not using an custom icons.

 

[M4th]

Doesn't explain why, but does show easy fix...

(Comment says latest version of Tahoe solves the issue?)