Internal SSD viewed as External NOT removable Hard Disk

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Internal SSD viewed as External NOT removable Hard Disk

Hello everybody. I just bought an internal OWC AURA PRO SSD 512gb using on my Macbook Pro with retina display Late 2013 with OS X El Capitan. Everything works fine except for two things: why is the AURA recognized as an external NOT removable Hard Drive and not as the internal default remote disc? Second question: how to fix the slow boot problem? I tried to make a PRAM reset and to repair disk permission via SUDO commands but it's still slow.

Thanks and have a great day!!!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on May 8, 2016 1:13 AM

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Answer 1

OGELTHORPE

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May 8, 2016 3:05 AM in response to Sintek

Sintek wrote:

why is the AURA recognized as an external NOT removable Hard Drive and not as the internal default remote disc?

Please provide a screen shot. I simply do not understand this.

( You might also consider contacting OWC technical support )

Download and post an Etrecheck report:

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Ciao.

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Sintek Author

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May 8, 2016 5:41 AM in response to OGELTHORPE

Nothing to do. They told me for now there's no way to make the system recognised this ssd as an internal drive....but it's still slow in the boot. Why?

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Answer 3

OGELTHORPE

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May 8, 2016 5:44 AM in response to Sintek

The Etrecheck report that I requested may offers some clues to the slow performance. Please download it.

Ciao.

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Sintek Author

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May 8, 2016 6:21 AM in response to OGELTHORPE

EtreCheck version: 2.9.12 (265)
Report generated 2016-05-08 15:04:48
Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.comRuntime 1:47
Performance: Excellent

Click the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products. Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.

Problem: Computer is too slow

Hardware Information: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) [Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service] MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,1
1 2,4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
8 GB RAM Not upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: Unknown Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 213

Video Information: Intel Iris

Color LCD 2880 x 1800 W2243 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz

System Software: OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 (15E65) - Time since boot: less than an hour

Disk Information: OWC Aura SSD disk0 : (479,95 GB) (Rotational)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
OWC Aura SSD (disk0s2) / : 479.09 GB (402.00 GB free) Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

MARVELL VIRTUAL ()

USB Information: Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Thunderbolt Information: Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Apple Inc. Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Gatekeeper: Mac App Store and identified developers

Kernel Extensions: /Applications/Kies.app

[not loaded] [not loaded] [not loaded] [not loaded] [not loaded]

com.devguru.driver.SamsungACMControl (1.4.32 - SDK 10.6 - 2016-01-30) [Sup com.devguru.driver.SamsungACMData (1.4.32 - SDK 10.6 - 2016-01-30) [Supp com.devguru.driver.SamsungComposite (1.4.32 - SDK 10.6 - 2016-01-30) [Supp com.devguru.driver.SamsungMTP (1.4.32 - SDK 10.5 - 2016-01-30) [Support] com.devguru.driver.SamsungSerial (1.4.32 - SDK 10.6 - 2016-01-30) [Support]

/Library/Application Support/Avast/components/fileshield/unsigned

[loaded] com.avast.AvastFileShield (3.0.0 - SDK 10.10 - 2016-04-12) [Support] /Library/Application Support/Avast/components/proxy/unsigned

[loaded] com.avast.PacketForwarder (2.1 - SDK 10.10 - 2016-04-12) [Support]

System Launch Agents: [not loaded] 6 Apple tasks [loaded] 154 Apple tasks [running] 78 Apple tasks

System Launch Daemons: [not loaded] 46 Apple tasks [loaded] 161 Apple tasks [running] 81 Apple tasks

Launch Agents: [running] com.avast.update-agent.plist (2016-05-08) [Support] [loaded] com.avast.userinit.plist (2016-05-08) [Support]

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] [loaded] [loaded]

com.avast.init.plist (2016-05-08) [Support] com.avast.uninstall.plist (2016-05-08) [Support] com.avast.update.plist (2016-05-08) [Support]

User Launch Agents: [not loaded] com.avast.home.userinit.plist (2016-05-08) [Support] [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2016-05-08) [Support]

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Other Apps:

[loaded] [loaded] [running] [running] [running] [running] [running] [loaded] [running] [running] [running] [loaded] [loaded] [running]

com.avast.account com.avast.crashreport

com.avast.daemon com.avast.fileshield com.avast.helper com.avast.proxy com.avast.service

com.fiplab.MemoryCleanHelper com.fiplab.memoryclean.90592 com.google.Chrome.84192 in.appyogi.ethernetstatus.83872

in.appyogi.ethernetstatushelperapp 398 Apple tasks

198 Apple tasks

Internet Plug-ins: Default Browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-05-08) QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-05-08)

3rd Party Preference Panes: Flash Player (2016-04-16) [Support]

Time Machine: Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off Volumes being backed up:

OWC Aura SSD: Disk size: 479.09 GB Disk used: 77.09 GB Destinations:

Volume [Local]
Total size: 0 B
Total number of backups: 0 Oldest backup: -
Last backup: -
Size of backup disk: Too small

Backup size 0 B < (Disk used 77.09 GB X 3)

Top Processes by CPU: 99% kextcache

7% com.avast.daemon
4% WindowServer
4% kernel_task
3% Google Chrome Helper(3)

Top Processes by Memory:

693 MB 385 MB 229 MB 221 MB 147 MB

kernel_task mdworker(21)
Google Chrome Helper(3) Mail
com.avast.daemon

Virtual Memory Information: 2.35 GB Free RAM
5.65 GB Used RAM (4.24 GB Cached) 0 B Swap Used

Diagnostics Information: May 8, 2016, 02:48:24 PM Self test - passed
May 8, 2016, 12:36:53 PM ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/

com.apple.audio.InfoHelper_2016-05-08-123653_[redacted].crash /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/XPCServices/com.apple.audio.I nfoHe

Contents/MacOS/com.apple.audio.InfoHelper
May 8, 2016, 12:36:51 PM ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/

com.apple.audio.InfoHelper_2016-05-08-123651_[redacted].crash May 7, 2016, 02:33:01 PM ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/

com.apple.preferences.sharing.remoteservice_2016-05-07-143301_[redacted].crash /System/Library/PreferencePanes/SharingPref.prefPane/Contents/XPCServices/

com.apple.preferences.sharing.remoteservice.xpc/Contents/MacOS/ com.apple.preferences.sharing.remoteservice

I think that less than an hour isn't of much help... Ma sei italiano?

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Answer 5

May 8, 2016 6:38 AM in response to Sintek

Do you have the new SSD selected as the boot drive?

From System Preferences > Startup Disk, ensure your startup disk is OWC Aura SSD.

Also you Mac does not require AntiVirus software. It will slow your computer down and is not necessary.

Uninstall Avast as per developers instructions.

Kim

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Answer 6

OGELTHORPE

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May 8, 2016 7:29 AM in response to Sintek

Macs have builtin AV protection so no AV applications are needed. A third party AV application may be slowing your MBP down and may very well corrupt the operating system. Delete AVAST per these instructions:

https://www.avast.com/en-us/faq.php?article=AVKB67

In addition, delete MEMORY CLEAN. The OSX is designed to allocate the RAM resources with out any assistance from any third party application. Thsi is totally unnecessary and has the potential to create problems by interfering wioth the OSX.

Ciao.

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Csound1

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May 8, 2016 7:32 AM in response to OGELTHORPE

I totally agree

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Answer 8

Sintek Author

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May 8, 2016 9:29 AM in response to Sintek

Ok. I deleted AVIRA now. And Memory Clean is only for me for having an idea of the memory I use (percentage in the toolbar): I never started a memory clean process 🙂. And yes the OWC AURA SSD is setup as the boot drive. Anyway my MAC is still slowly in boot....More suggestions?

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