Frequent spinning beach ball

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Posted on
Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:37 pm
MarcoGT offline
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Frequent spinning beach ball

Hi all,

nothing to do with Indigo/HomeAutomation: on my iMac (it is not the Indigo Server), mid-2013 I have since weeks frequent spinning beach balls.
Disk Utility found nothing; EtreCheck (this a tool which is used also on Apple Support Forum) says disk is failing. It is an old 5400rpm disk, and maybe this is also the root cause.
During Christmas holiday I replaced failed disk on a late-2006 iMac and it was really simple, but on the "slim" iMac I would not take the risk.
I plan to install macOS on an external USB3 SSD (no FireWire, and Thunderbolt enclosure are too expensive).

What do you say about?

Posted on
Mon Jan 21, 2019 1:42 am
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Re: Frequent spinning beach ball

Just for info, I bought a Samsung 860 EVO (1TB) and a SATa-USB3.0 enclosure.
Installed there Mojave, everything fine. Speed is awesome, no spinning beach ball anymore

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Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:03 am
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Re: Frequent spinning beach ball

I'm curious. Did you have Mojave installed on the iMac before you attached the external drive? If yes, was it an upgrade to a prior OS?

I have a slim iMac giving me I/O trouble since upgrading to Mojave. I have some suspicions as to the cause, but don't have nearly enough data yet...

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Posted on
Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:50 pm
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Re: Frequent spinning beach ball

Yes, I had Mojave on the internal HD, but problems started before upgrading to Mojave.
I think the disk is almost at the end of life

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