How do I connect a Mac to another Mac as hard drive?
Can we still start a Mac as a slave or as a hard drive, to be connected to another Mac?
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MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.7
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Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:
Only under certain conditions:
Transfer files between two Mac computers using target disk mode - Apple Support
To elaborate:
If the Mac that you want to be the "disk" is an Intel-based one, then
- If either Mac is running Big Sur or later, the connection must be a Thunderbolt one. Apple appears to have dropped support for FireWire and USB Target Disk Mode.
On the other hand, if the Mac that you want to be the "disk" is Apple-Silicon-based, then you can use a "USB, USB-C, or Thunderbolt cable".
Transfer files between a Mac with Apple silicon and another Mac - Apple Support
So the way in which you get a Mac to act as a "disk" and the types of connections you can use now depend on what type of processor it has.
