Recent content by Emil

Most of my original post was before I got my new broadband connection. Since I got the new connection and with the new location of the router, I am getting decent signal strength everywhere in my house. That covers everything except the old desktop. I will not be keeping my desktop for long now...

Thanks but I already sold it off.

I have You Broadband and I am switching over to Tata Play today. My current connection comes down from my building terrace to my bedroom window and my dual band router is setup in the bedroom. Although it is just a 1BHK flat, I get poor 5G range in some parts of the living room and the kitchen...

We are senior citizens and do not need multiple phones. The Poco speaker volume had gone down to an extent and was getting worse. In our experience, speaker volume is impacted by swelling of the battery. We decided to get rid of it before the value drops too much.

Not sure which one he used. He is sleeping now because he is in another timezone but I just checked with another friend who uses iBoysoft NTFS for Mac. Edit on June 2: He is using Mounty for NFS.

My son-in-law, who works a lot on Apple devices and occasionally on Windows, has just informed me that there is a free NTFS plugin on App Store that works very well for him. So I guess I'll stick with NTFS all the way. My drive is coming on Monday. I was not intending to be able to read the...

OK here's my plan of action. Open to advice/suggestions. 1. Format my new SSD as APFS. Copy data from my old HDD to the new SSD. 2. Back on the Windows desktop, reformat the Toshiba (still NTFS) and copy over the data from the second HDD in the desktop and put it also on the new SSD on the Mac...

That does not matter much. When there is bulk data to transfer, I will not be sitting and watching it happen. When it is smaller amount of data, double of a few mSec is immaterial. More importantly, are these kind of utility software available for MacOS?

Manually tracking checksum is not really practical.

Is there anything special I have to do when I first connect the drive to my Mac mini? Like is there a particular format I need to do? Any permissions to set? My first task will be to copy the data from my Toshiba to the new drive. Is there anything I need to keep in mind if I ever want to open...

Thanks @StygianClaw and @nareshak

In my case, my drive will be out of sight most of the time. Ordered the Samsung T7

I added a ssd in my son-in-law's HP laptop a few months back. I got tremendous amount of support from the HP support community to identify and choose the correct ssd. I bought and installed the WD SN570 and it works fine. I suggest that you too should check on that community.

Can someone explain in simple terms what is the impact of this?

I opened them on the Mac directly from the Toshiba drive and they worked fine. One pdf, one docx and a few jpgs. I will now need to buy myself a new external HDD so that I can copy the contents of the Toshiba and then reformat the Toshiba and use it as a backup. Then I'll have another backup on...