- Check the Samsung external SSD in System Information. If you see the LED on it randomly toggles.
- SSD Is Not Recognized by Your Laptop. If you are having issues getting your laptop to recognize your SSD we recommend following these steps: If the drive is being added as a secondary storage device, it must be initialized first ( Windows®, OS X® ). If not, disregard this step. Remove, reseat, and double-check the connections.
- Unlock the settings and click on details. Tick on Samsung Electronics close the details window and restart your Mac as prompted. Then, remove your Samsung Portable SSD and open the Samsung Portable SSD utility. Connect your SSD press refresh and you should be fine.
Here's how to find out if TRIM is running or not. Click on the Apple icon (top-right corner) then choose About This Mac. Click on System Repor t. On the left pane of the System. Bothered by Samsung SSD 850 EVO not detected on Windows 10, during installation, by BIOS, by Magician, or not showing up in “This PC”? Come and see its solutions here.
Do Samsung Ssd Work With Mac
Why My Ssd Is Not Detected
I recently bought the following, for fast external storage for my Mac:
* Samsung 970 EVO M.2(2280) SSD (500GB)
* Century Katana M.2 SSD USB3.1 Type-C enclosure
https://www.ark-pc.co.jp/i/40310320/
After fitting the SSD in the enclosure & attaching via my Mac's USB 3 port, the SSD is not detected, either in the Finder, Disk Utility or System Information. However, the enclosure's VLI USB 3 chipset does appear in the USB 3 section of System Information.
How can I get my Mac to recognize the SSD, so that I can format it?
I have the exact same result when I attached the SSD to a Windows 10 laptop; it recognized the VLI chipset of he enclosure, but didn't detect the SSD.
Also, the SSD is compatible with the enclosure's M.2 interface (it is 2280, with M key).
So it looks like some issue with the SSD itself, or with the M.2 interface connection. When I connected the SSD to the enclosure's M.2 interface (at a 30 deg angle), it was a tight fit & required some wiggling, but eventually was a snug fit.
Wnat should I do? Any ideas?
Thanks!