best external hard drive for m1 mac mini

The issue came up when I tried booting the mac from the drive. I followed guide videos and websites and I was able to create a bootable installer of Big Sur on a USB stick. How can I get this M1 to boot into the external SSD?īootable installer won't recognize on 2020 M1 Macbook air I updated my mac to the latest version of Monterey and decided that I wanted to revert back to Big Sur after some compatibility issues. Guess what, yep, you guessed it, it says I can't use it because it needs to be 'updated' - even though it is the current version of macOS (11.01).īTW, I tried the Startup Security Utility as shown here So I formatted my SSD and reinstalled 11.01 onto it. It then said I had the wrong version of macOS, even though the internal SSD had the same exact version (11.01). It said I needed to reinstall 11.01 all over again, so I tried, but it got halfway and then said there was an error and it stopped installing. I thought I would just plug it in the M1 and it would work, since it has the same OS version as the internal SSD, but it wouldn't let me. I recently bought a 2018-2019 Mac Mini and was using my external SSD just fine with it, but now with the M1 it is having all kinds of connectivity issues.

Hi, I bought the new Mac Mini M1 and would like to use it with a external 1TB SSD.

Best external hard drive for m1 mac mini