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Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)?

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On 2021-02-18, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
> On 2021-02-16 18:07, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <2IVWH.3$IzB.0@fx35.iad> Alan Browne <Blackhole@entropy.ultimateorg> wrote:
>>> On 2021-02-11 04:42, Ant wrote:
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> Is it supposed to take a long time for macOSes (updated Big Sur v11.x
>>>> and Mojave v10.4.6) to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted
>>>> partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ExFAT (no encryption) always
>>>> mount right away, but the other ones take like a minute or more to be
>>>> seen and ask me to enter their passwords to mount. This is with a month
>>>> old external Seagate HDD
>> 
>>> I have 4 USB 3, 6 TB disks attached most of the time.  On a "wake from
>>> sleep" they're available in seconds.  On a re-boot or re-connect it can
>>> take 10 - 20 seconds for all 4 to show in Finder[1]. They are all
>>> encrypted drives.  The "password" is stored in Keychain so there is no
>>> entering of the password on each connect required.
>> 
>> I am going to guess that you have not, however, created multiple
>> partitions on those drives like it's 1999.
>
> I'm pretty sure I abandoned multiple partitions before 1999.

Same here. Hard drives are dirt cheap, and partitioning puts more data
at risk than is necessary.

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Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-02-11 03:42 -0600
  Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? Alan Browne <Blackhole@entropy.ultimateorg> - 2021-02-16 15:13 -0500
    Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2021-02-17 11:09 +1300
    Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-02-16 16:26 -0600
      Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2021-02-16 23:06 +0000
        Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-02-16 20:09 -0600
    Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-02-16 23:07 +0000
      Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-02-17 16:26 +0000
      Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2021-02-17 20:42 -0500
        Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-02-18 02:32 +0000

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