That Internal USB Port inside the 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra

2023-07-28 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: Apple, Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra, Apple Silicon, data integrity, diglloydTools, IntegrityChecker, Mac Pro, Samsung, USB

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Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of the innards...

Want some extra storage inside your 2023 Mac Pro? Setting aside the SATA ports (more involved mounting/power), there is a single internal USB port inside the Mac Pro which takes a standard USB-A cable.

All I had to do was use the cable supplied with the Samsung T7 Shield and plug it in.

Regrettably that internal port runs at only 5 Gb/sec or about 500 MB/sec. OTOH, it’s slick to have an internal clone backup always there and out of the way. If you move your Mac Pro around, tape it or velcro it inside the chassis somewhere.

Works great!

PSSD T7 Shield:
Product ID:	0x61fb
Vendor ID:	0x04e8  (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Version:	1.00
Serial Number:	********
Speed:	Up to 5 Gb/s
Manufacturer:	Samsung
Location ID:	0x0d100000 / 1
Current Available (mA):	900
Current Required (mA):	896
Extra Operating Current (mA):	0
Media:
PSSD T7 Shield:
Capacity:	2 TB (2,000,398,934,016 bytes)
Removable Media:	No
BSD Name:	disk17
Logical Unit:	0
Partition Map Type:	GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:	Verified
USB Interface:	0
Volumes:
EFI:
Capacity:	209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
File System:	MS-DOS FAT32
BSD Name:	disk17s1
Content:	EFI
Volume UUID:	0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B
disk17s2:
Capacity:	2 TB (2,000,189,177,856 bytes)
BSD Name:	disk17s2
Content:	Apple_APFS