You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!

When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

mook2420 Author

Level 1

4 points

Ventura 13.2.1 MacMini M2 - External Drive access so slow.

On another Mac installation drive access is near instant - on this installation of Ventura it hangs for 20+ seconds even when the drive has been spun up recently for access.

I cannot imagine this is a "non bug" type situation. I tried disabling Spotlight completely but that has not improved anything.

Has anyone had any experience with such weirdness such as this? I had been using older iOS' for a while so this is all new to me.

Clicking around boxes and waiting patiently has grown to be too frustrating every time I need to do any simple task in practically every application that uses finder to navigate the filesystem...

I pray it is a simple cache change or setting that can provide a solution.

*Edit*

I did read over some other people's posts with a similar issue going back to 2022 and wanted to note that my drives are formatted HFS+, perhaps I should migrate the data over and reformat to APFS... I may still want to wait until anyone else could possibly chime in.

Mac mini (2023 with M2 Pro)

Posted on Mar 6, 2023 3:11 PM

Top-ranking reply

mook2420 Author

Level 1

4 points

Posted on Mar 8, 2023 12:28 PM

I wanted to come back and report - after laboriously copying over all the data to another drive THEN back after partitioning as APFS...

The issue is no longer there - so chalk this up to "Ventura hated the HFS+ external USB3 drive I had been using for media storage/access for a long time" changing it to APFS made it happy and I am no longer having to wait 20 seconds or so just to show the contents of the drive.

Not an elegant fix or a clear explanation as to why this would happen but I will take it over continued frustration and or data loss.

View in context

Ventura 13.2.1 MacMini M2 - External Drive access so slow.

Similar questions