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External hard drive becomes internal... What?
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<blockquote data-quote="pinto79" data-source="post: 1700502" data-attributes="member: 167075"><p>I can do that.</p><p></p><p>The mini has 2 drives that dwell within it's casing, as shown above, they are the OWC SSD and the original 500GB hard drive (Macintosh SSD and Macintosh HD respectively.) The OS (10.11.3) is contained only on the SSD.</p><p></p><p>I am also using 3 external hard drives. They are labeled Recording 2TB, Media 3TB and Time Machine. Time Machine is connected via FW800 and is used for backups. Recording 2TB is connected to a USB 3.0 hub and detects and runs without issue. Media 3TB is external and connected via USB 3.0 to the same hub as Recording, but as is noted on the first image I attached, it is seen as 3TB USB Internal Physical Volume OS X Extended. On the desktop it is shown with the same icon as the internal drives rather than how an external generally shown. It is used for media storage and is assigned to iTunes. In finder, it doesn't have an eject symbol next to it either.</p><p></p><p>It works fine as is and I have no issues with accessing it or my data, and iTunes is fine with it, I'm just confused as to why that would happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pinto79, post: 1700502, member: 167075"] I can do that. The mini has 2 drives that dwell within it's casing, as shown above, they are the OWC SSD and the original 500GB hard drive (Macintosh SSD and Macintosh HD respectively.) The OS (10.11.3) is contained only on the SSD. I am also using 3 external hard drives. They are labeled Recording 2TB, Media 3TB and Time Machine. Time Machine is connected via FW800 and is used for backups. Recording 2TB is connected to a USB 3.0 hub and detects and runs without issue. Media 3TB is external and connected via USB 3.0 to the same hub as Recording, but as is noted on the first image I attached, it is seen as 3TB USB Internal Physical Volume OS X Extended. On the desktop it is shown with the same icon as the internal drives rather than how an external generally shown. It is used for media storage and is assigned to iTunes. In finder, it doesn't have an eject symbol next to it either. It works fine as is and I have no issues with accessing it or my data, and iTunes is fine with it, I'm just confused as to why that would happen. [/QUOTE]
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