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MacinScott Author

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Issues with external SSD after installing Ventura

My G-Technology G-Drive ev Raw SSD has been having issues since upgrading to macOS Ventura 13.2. Spinning beach ball requiring me to force quit the Finder. Very slow read/write speeds at times. Sometimes issue mounting and unmounting the drive.

My external drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled and I never had any issues on Big Sur or previous operating systems.

I ran Disk Utilities First Aid but it failed because it said the volume could not be unmounted.

Any suggestions? Should I try to copy the contents to another computer and reformat the drive as APFS instead?

2020 Intel 27" iMac i9

iMac 27″

Posted on Mar 17, 2023 6:46 AM

Issues with external SSD after installing Ventura

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