Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet?
by _ph_ on Monday February 03, 2020 @02:15PM
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And how exactly do you use an external drive? Due to the limitations of the internal drive, I have used quite a variety of external drives with my iMac, but no solution is really good and all are much inferior to an internal drive. USB 3 drives work the best, but are limited and speed as is the number of USB ports on the mac. Going via hubs is possible, but reduces the reliability of the connection, I keep getting drive disconnects. Also, I haven't really been able to find a reliable Thunderbolt 2 drive.
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Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet?
by scarface74 on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:24PM
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What’s wrong with the higher end TB2 SSD drives/enclosures?
Which ones? Can you list one, which doesn't disconnect from time to time without unmounting the file system?
I used a thunderbolt enclosure from OCW and eventually the file systems were corrupted beyond repair.
I’ve never had that problem, using a Buffalo drive station mini (which I upgraded the 2 SSDs without issue either), neither with Akitito thunderbolt 3 4-bay thing. Both products are discontinued though. People complained about the Akitito one disconnecting on Amazon, from memory someone said the cable was a bit loose. I used an Apple thunderbolt cable from the beginning (because someone left out the included cable and it was coming from the US to NZ over Christmas...) and I dunno if that plays a part, but it’s snug and I’ve never had an issue.