{"id":752,"date":"2020-04-19T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=752"},"modified":"2020-04-19T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T04:30:09","slug":"silicon-power-a55-1tb-and-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Power A55 1TB and macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I purchased a Silicon Power A55 SSD (1TB). I&#8217;m temporarily using the A55 to boot a 2015 MacBook Pro. The A55 boots up the MacBook Pro when connected via a USB to SATA connection, but the behavior is different when using a FireWire cable to SATA connection (Seagate GoFlex FW 800 cable).<\/p>\n<p>With the A55 connected to GoFlex cable, the MacBook Pro boots part way up, but then a circle with a slash appears across the screen:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_753\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1262-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of A55 connected via FireWire\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1262-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1262-1024x787.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1262-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1262-1536x1180.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1262-2048x1574.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A55 connected via FireWire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anyway, I filed a support ticket with Silicon Power to resolve this situation. It could be that this drive is not fully compatible with FireWire interfaces &#8211; stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I purchased a Silicon Power A55 SSD (1TB). I&#8217;m temporarily using the A55 to boot a 2015 MacBook Pro. The A55 boots up the MacBook Pro when connected via a USB to SATA connection, but the behavior is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=752\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}