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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Subject	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)?
Date	2021-02-17 11:09 +1300
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On 2021-02-16 20:13:49 +0000, Alan Browne said:
> 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.
> 
> (Catalina 10.15 ish.)
> 
> [1] IIRC even if the volume doesn't show in Finder quickly, I believe 
> they show in Disk Utility quicker than that - but I won't stand on it.

My guess would be the OS on booting/reconnecting is checking the disks, 
which is doesn't do on waking. For large cpacity drives this can take a 
bit longer than smaller capacity drives.

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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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