When will there be updated drivers and utility software to support the new MacBook Pro M1 Max units? I now have two 32TB SSD Shuttles that are nice looking doorstops.

Glad it helped! Considering how many folks have run into this problem, not sure why they didn’t post this far and wide on their support forum, but perhaps I missed it: – Due to how the M1 Mac computers function and work with our G-Speed Shuttle units, we have released a driver update that needs …

I was finally able to get my shuttle to mount to my M1 Max MacBook Pro 2021!! Please follow the steps here. You have to install the Promise software and downgrade your boot kernel security settings. My G-Speed Shuttle now works on my M1 MacBook Pro using the new Promise driver! Hooray! Download …

Happy to hear that worked for you. I am very familiar with this process and have been through it many times. That is the exact process I used to get the drive to work with the M1 iMac and M1 MBP 13 when they came out but no luck for me with any of my M1 or M1 Max units under Monterey.

No luck with those instructions for me either. Looks like it is time to check into returning this product while I still can. Very disappointed in Western Digital. As someone in charge of corporate purchasing it will be tough to trust Western Digital going forward.

Having to use the Promise build to make the drives work on the original M1 Macs was bad enough. I know the G-Tech folks are just bundling the Promise controllers, etc. but at least they could pretend to care about the Mac. When I first contacted support they blamed Apple and said Apple was working …

No further response. I have contacted Apple support. No knowledge of this issue and no recognition that it is being worked on. I have former colleagues who still work at Apple (I recently left WWPM there after many years as a PM) who are aware of the issue but claim these are known issues that 3rd p…

So I’ve used the Promise drivers and managed to get my drives to show up for a few hours to minutes each. Usually they end up un-mounting themselves, sometimes they just lock up the Mac. One of them no longer mounts at all. I’d like Western digital to send me a pair of 32TB SSDs formatted in exFat …

Hey everyone. I’m currently in the process of switching over to mac from Windows, the m1 lured me in. I was going to get the g shuttle to use for external storage, I’m a photographer and DOP, but am a little worried having seen this thread. Having looked into it more it seems like there’s lots of i…

I’ve owned 9 RAID arrays based on the Promise technology (the G-Tech drives are essentially repackaged promise RAIDS, easily verified by taking them apart when they fail). 4 of the 7 Promise drives failed. Usually first a drive module and then eventually the backplane. I have owned many G-Tech driv…

Thanks so much for that response. It seems pretty ludicrous that this has happened. I’ve spoken with Apple tech and they said that there are no RAID systems which they can currently confirm compatibility with the m1 chip and monterey. That’s crazy! Anyway, I’m still a little unsure of what to do. …

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This is an update, thanks to @Alright4here post I was able to workaround my problem and get a fix for my G-Studio XL 12TB, follow his steps on this topic.

http://community.wd.com/t/g-speed-studio-xl-now-working-with-my-2021-macbook-pro-m1-pro-monterey/272896?u=antoniopena

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