Mac Mini External HDD Click When Powering Down I have a 2021 Mac Mini and I bought a 5TB Seagate external HDD for some extra storage. It has worked fine, and I leave the drive plugged in, letting it power up and down as the computer does; however, sometimes when I power down my Ma...
Have a OWC MiniStack STX external hard drive that I bought in 2022 and could not use because my old Mac mini was too old. Just purchased a 2024 Mac mini and bought a new Thunderbolt cable for it. It does not recognize the external hard drive. Does not show up anywhere. What is w...
USB drives (thumb drive, external hard drive) will not eject on M2 MacBook Air or M4 iMac, both using Sequoia. Indicates device is being used by other program when only thing running is Finder. Only way to eject is "Force Eject" which damages that drive and shows up as drive not ejec...
I also use a bunch of hard drives in a Terramaster enclosure which connects via a USB 3.2 (Gen 2) port. When I plug the enclosure into the Studio Display's USB 3 ports, I get speeds of up to 130MB/s on a single drive, and 250MB/s if I combine two drives into a RAID 0 set...
I've got a couple of external drives connected. One is a Samsung SSD Drive in an enclosure. The other is a WD hard drive. The SSD Drive is connected via USB C to my MacMini 2018 model. The hard drive connects through a multi port USB connector. USB 3 to the connector and then...
Hello --- I have an external HFS+ hard drive --- when I connected it to my laptop, I did not see it in the finder --- now my mac just has one usb-c port, so I have the hub/dock connected to the laptop and the drive in the doc --- would it still need ac power to work...
Otherwise, a slower USB-A drive is fine. I use my old SSD shuttle drives (LaCie Thunderbolt 1/2) w/ Apple's TB3-TB2 adapter. For backups, I use the old Apple Time Capsule over the network. View in context Similar questions External hard drive Compatible external hard drive for 2017...
So, I have an older external drive that does use USB but it is unknown how it will work with the newer Air. Carol How old is the hard drive? FWIW, the backup drive should be the most reliable part of the computer system because if something goes awry the backup needs to be there ...
NTFS external hard drive will not mount Catalina 10.15.7 after security update on March 17, 2022 WD My Passport won't mount following the above update and when trying to mount with Disk Utility I get this error (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error 49221.) I was able to verify that ...
External LaCie hard drive sleep mode issue Hello, I have an external LaCie D2 drive (10TB, USB 3) connected to a MacBook Pro M1 Max with Monterey: even if I unchecked the option "put hard disk to sleep when possible" the drive goes to sleep whenever no app is reading from it: you...