Johnbravelow

Q: Samsung T3 Portable SSD

Hi all,

 

  I am booting my iMac 21.5 retina on a Samsung T3 portable SSD. When i check the disk info using the Disk utility, it is saying it is not SSD and also it do not support SMART. I have install the Samsung Activation Pack but still not working.

 

Do anyone has experience on this ? Thanks

iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Apr 13, 2016 10:54 AM

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  • by KennethLarsen,

    KennethLarsen KennethLarsen Jun 4, 2016 6:36 PM in response to Johnbravelow
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    Jun 4, 2016 6:36 PM in response to Johnbravelow

    I have a iMac late 2015, El Capitan 10.11.5 and I use SoftRAID for my OWC Raid. The SoftRAID program find the Samsung T3, and list that the SMART status as passed test median life remaining 100%.     The Apple disk utility list the drive correctly also with the S.M.A.R.T status: verified.

     

    It seems that the driver for the T3 is a build with debug information.  When I run the system profiler the storage and usb status return 'There was an error while gathering this information' - looking in the system log i get the following details.

     

    6/4/16 4:42:29.297 PM System Information[820]: Failed to parse plist output from '/usr/sbin/system_profiler -nospawn -xml SPUSBDataType -detailLevel full', error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Unexpected character S at line 1" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Unexpected character S at line 1, kCFPropertyListOldStyleParsingError=Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1}}

     

    However, i have not had issues with the drive that is just awesomely fast.

  • by yitwail2,

    yitwail2 yitwail2 Sep 15, 2016 3:32 AM in response to KennethLarsen
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    Sep 15, 2016 3:32 AM in response to KennethLarsen

    I see this same error in the system log, but unfortunately, I do have an issue. After I eject the drive and put my 2015 retina MacBook Pro to sleep, and come back some time later and plug in the SSD again, it's no longer recognized and I have to reboot. Perhaps I have to leave the drive plugged in as much as possible, but that's inconvenient.