A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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Macbook Pro - Not picking up Hard Drive
I had a problem when I turned on my Macbook Pro, I would just get a flashing "?" when I booted up.
I decided to grab a recovery from another mac I have, I put this onto a memory stick and my laptop ...
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How to upgrade HDD to SSD and replace the optical drive with HDD?
I am trying to understand the process of switching out my HDD for an SSD and then replacing my optical drive with the same HDD just removed in a late 2011 Macbook Pro 15.4".
Is there any benefit to ...
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What is an SSD drive's negotiated link speed?
When I look at my Apple SSD TS256C (Toshiba) in the System Profiler on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011), I see:
Link Speed: 6 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Why is that? Does that mean ...
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Reformat old windows hard drive for use externally
I have an old 100 GB hard drive from a windows laptop that I would like to make use of as a portable, external hard drive. I ordered a cheap case on Amazon and it works fine. However, the disk is ...
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Open an encrypted HDD/USB on Leopard?
Is it possible to access an external HDD or USB drive encrypted on Lion, through a Mac running Leopard?
In other words, is FileVault 2 encryption on volumes/partitions backwards compatible? (It ...
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What does “Other” mean in my mac mini storage? [duplicate]
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“Other” Storage space in Sys Info
When i click "about this mac" and go to storage, it shows a list of what occupies my disc space.
What does "other" mean? I have 46 GB ...
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RAID questions with ML
I'm looking to build a NAS box and putting ML on it.
I currently have two drives that are configured as RAID one that I am pulling out of a NAS box.
I have one drive that I'd like to add to the two ...
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How to fix “512 bytes per sector” to “4096 bytes per sector” for an “Advanced Format” 4K sector USB hard drive?
Mac OS X 10.7.4 has a Sharkoon Quickdeck Pro USB enclosure attached. That USB enclosure contains a 4TB Advanced Format hard drive which has 4096 bytes (4K) sector size. The drive is GPT/GUID ...
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Recommendations for USB 3 ExpressCard/34 [closed]
There is a proliferation of portable and cheap portable USB 3 drives nowadays and nothing of the sort for Thunderbolt.
I was wondering if it is worth my while getting an ExpressCard/34 USB 3 card for ...
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Is Other World Computing's 1.5TB Toshiba Aquarius laptop hard drive legit?
I have pretty high storage needs, which are constantly increasing. Fortunately, the largest drives available seem to be scaling with the amount of space I can occupy. The 1TB disk I currently have ...
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Unable to create a partition to install Mac OS X
When I try to install Mac OS X there is no partition for me to choose. I tried to create a partition and got the error, "Partition failed with the error: Couldn't unmount disc."
Anyone have a clue? ...
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What happens when you remove (or lose) the SSD from a Fusion Drive?
After storing data on a Fusion Drive, is it possible to downgrade your Mac to use the hard drive (HDD) by just removing the solid state drive (SSD)?
In particular, I was wondering what happens when ...
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Mac disk free space automatically decreases
I am running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on MacBook Pro. A few days ago I found my free disk space is too low, so I tried to clean un-necessary files form disk myself and using some programs like ...
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Mac start up - Flashing Folder
Basically, tonight my mac crashed so I re-started and got a flashing folder.
I have searched around online for the commands that I need to press when I first hear the chime to get into the disk ...
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Any partition software just to partition unused space?
Currently I have one portable external hard drive which I use for Windows. It's 1TB and over 300GB is used space. I would like to partition it so I can access the unused space from my Mac. Can you all ...
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How can I reconfigure the RAID settings on a Maxtor OneTouch III?
I have a 1TB Maxtor OneTouch III. This is the drive that comes with two 500GB disks and software to configure RAID 0 (mirroring) with 500GB of storage, or full use of both disks for 1TB of storage. ...
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Issues with installing SSD instead of DVD drive?
It is common to replace a MacBook Pro's hard disk drive (HDD) with an solid state drive (SSD), however, that may pose a threat to the HDD if installed in the optical bay instead of the SuperDrive.*
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Two older Macs (G3 / Intel) need their drives erased. No install discs
I have two older Macs in which I want to erase the hard drive. Secure-erase is a plus, but not a show-stopper at this point. I don't have any Mac OS X discs so I can't use disc utility.
What I'd ...
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How can I keep my fan from staying at full speed after replacing the hard drive?
I replaced a hard drive in a 2011 iMac (Core i7), though it was a standard hard drive and didn't have a location for the S.M.A.R.T. cord. (Or at least I think that's what it was.) Since then, the ...
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Is there a way to limit external hard-drive random spin-up?
I have 2 external USB drives connected to my iMac running 10.7.3. One is designated completely for Time Machine use and the other I use for data. (Nothing but a bunch of JPGs on that one.) The first ...
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Unable to create a DIY Fusion Drive using a 3 TB hard drive
I'm trying to make a Fusion Drive with a Samsung 830 256GB SSD and a 3 TB 3.5" HDD (connected via SATA to my late 2012 Mac mini). I'm able to create the Fusion Drive, but when I start to install ...
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Problem with replacing hdd with ssd in early 2011 mac, which screwdrivers to use [closed]
I am trying to replace my 320 gb hard disk with a 240 gab ssd , however the instruction video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5opqLFOvh3M asks to use t6 screws in my current hdd with the ...
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Completely erased my Leopard machine from another computer, how do I install an OS on it?
I started up my computer in Target Disk Mode and erased it from a friends Mac thinking that I could then install Mountain Lion without installing Snow Leopard. Do I have any way of getting my machine ...
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Mac HDD Firmware for non-Mac-HDDs?
First of all: I use a MacBook (white) 13.3" 2Ghz (It says it's a MacBook3,1).
There was an 80GB HDD (Hitachi) built in, which just turned out to be a little too...
Well, it's not enough anymore.
So ...
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Is there a difference between WD Hard Drive utilities for RAID or Disk Utilities?
I have a WD "My Book Thunderbolt Duo" 6TB.
I have the option to format the disk using the WD utilities or to do something custom with Disk Manager.
Is there any difference in functionality between ...
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Can't unmount the disk during Mac OS X install
My MacBook started to get really slow recently. Now it can’t start up properly anymore. All I see is the Apple logo and then it shuts down. I've tried rebooting multiple times, but I've seen the same ...
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External hard drive not indexed by Spolight on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
I recently bought a new hard drive and it is not indexed by Finder. I tried to get it re-indexed by following this tutorial: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10330114-263.html and I even tried ...
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Do SSDs need to be defragmented?
I'm not sure if solid state drives need defragmentation. Can anyone tell me if this requirement goes away with the new technology?
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Hard drive unmounted and missing then back?
I have a 15" 2011 MBP with the OWC data doubler (a generic version). In my primary drive position (the spot where the factory HDD was) I have an OCZ-VERTEX 3. In the data doubler (the spot where the ...
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SSD adapter for optical drive
I'm going to add a SSD drive to my macbook pro.
I'm wondering if the optical drive adapter can have any influence on the disk speed, taking it down from a SATA III to a SATA II or I.
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Booting internally from a harddrive that was used on a different Mac
I just bought a new Mac Mini 2012 and have just replaced the drive in it with an SSD from my old MBP. Now the Mac Mini wont boot anymore, showing a stop sign when I try (after holding alt to begin ...
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How do I add icons to my menu bar?
I would like to know how I could add a USB eject button or battery power indicator to my menu bar on Mac OS X. I remember going into my Macintosh hard drive but I can't remember which folder to find ...
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How do I make the hard drive visible in the Finder?
On OS X Lion I don't see the hard drive in the Finder and I seem to have no permission to create a folder under / from terminal.
I know I can do this if I activate the root user, but I need to be ...
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SSD and Superdrive on Nvidia MCP79 SATA controller
Right now I have a Hitachi 320GB 5400rpm and a MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868 superdrive connected to the Nvidia MCP79 SATA controller in my MacBook Pro 5,3. The link speed of the hard disk drive is negotiated ...
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Time Machine External Drive
What factors are important when selecting an external hard drive for time machine backups?
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Mount 'target' machine over Firewire (Possible to bypass DMA after 10.7.2?)
Is it possible to mount/read data from a hdd over firewire that is not booted into 'target' mode?
My scenario
cMBP 1
cMBP 2 (target) this machine is fully encrypted without a efi password.
I know ...
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How can I boot to Windows on my Mac?
I have a MacBook Pro that I installed Windows 8 on via Boot Camp. I've managed to boot to it, before, but since then I've made two new partitions on the disk, and I'm afraid it's messed things up ...
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Time Machine - Is it backing up system files, preferences, etc?
Problem
My iMac is one which falls under a hard disk replacement program due to a possibly faulty disk made by Seagate in 2010. Because of that I will be soon sending it off to Apple for the disk to ...
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How to load windows 7 directly (without Boot camp) in a Mac Mini with intel processor whose Hard disk crashed and so is replaced?
The hard disk of my Mac mini with 2 GHz intel processor and 4 GB RAM crashed and so I have replaced the Hard disk. How to load Windows 7 without loading Boot camp? Windows 7 original DVD is not able ...
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Why do external hard drives stop working under very specific conditions?
I have a mid 2011 MacBook Pro 15" running Lion.
I have seen this behavior across 3 different external hardrives, with varying manufacturers (2x Seagate, 1 Western Digital), different file system ...
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Is my MacBook Pro hard drive dying?
I have an early 2011 13" MBP, i7, 8GB crucial RAM, 500 GB Seagate ST9500325ASG.
I've had it for about 4 months. Twice, including last night, the beach ball appears, concurrent with a sound that can ...
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How can I automatically have my Trash emptied when disk space gets below a certain point?
Sometimes my hard drive gets low on space, and various things don't work properly until I empty the Trash and free up some space. I know there are applications that empty the Trash after a set ...
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Diskutil can't find Core Storage Volumes
My OSX Mountain Lion will no longer atart up. After the logon screen it spins forever (the Apple logon is replaced by an error sign).
When I run in single user mode I get a "still waiting for root ...
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Large difference in reported free disk space
I have a strange discrepancy in the amount of free disk space that's being reported.
The finder says:
My iStat Menus says:
Which is the same as df -h reports:
remco@Prosperpine ~ $ df -h
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Mac OS X with swap turned off uses 6 GB of space in a few hours of heavy use
I have few GBs (5,38 GB at the moment) of free space on my hard disk (MacBook Pro 2010, 10.7.5). Few hours after I turn on/reboot my computer, the free space slowly goes down to zero and the system ...
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Time Machine deleting backups from several months ago (but not the oldest)?
During its "Cleanup" phase, Time Machine has recently been deleting backups from several months ago—even though these aren't the oldest backups, and my backup drive isn't full.
My backups go back to ...
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Are there any wireless hard drives work well with Lion or newer Macs?
Are there any wireless hard drives to use with a mac?
I need to copy paste files from and to this hard drive, when the disk on my mac is full. Do I need to look for a specific Apple drive or will any ...
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How does OSX assign disk numbers?
I have four drives inside my Mac Pro.
Bay 1: /dev/disk1s3
Bay 2: /dev/disk0s2
Bay 3: /dev/disk2s2 (also, my boot drive)
Bay 4: /dev/disk3s2 and /dev/disk3s3
How are the disk numbers assigned? If ...
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ZEVO: anyone have access to a current road map?
I've recently installed ZEVO on my Mac Pro and I'm looking forward to what ZFS will provide with data integrity, pool management and drive handling.
Wondering if there is a current road map?
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Western Digital external hard drive is constantly ejected
I have a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups, and recently my iMac has started to randomly eject the hard drive, preventing backups. It tends to happen while ...
