I’ve an exterior NVME enclosure with 40Gbps Thunderbolt 4 connection (Acasis TBU405 M1 Professional) with a Samsung 980 Professional 2TB put in, linked to the M1 Mac Mini (2020) Thunderbolt port, working Sonoma 14.0.
I need to eject / unmount the bodily drive so I may disconnect the drive with out getting +1 within the “Unsafe Shutdowns” subject of smartctl -a report.
Present drive partition setup is 2 volumes in 1 container. I appear to be solely capable of eject the two volumes, however not the “Exterior Bodily Disk” (top-most merchandise) of this exterior SSD drive.
As you’ll be able to see within the screenshot in Disk Utilities, the 2 volumes are greyed out and the drive does not present on the desktop. However the bodily drive “Samsung SSD 980 Professional 2TB” continues to be displaying within the listing.
I attempted these instructions (with and with out sudo) within the terminal but it surely does not unmount the drive totally (the sunshine on the enclosure continues to be on after the instructions, and the drive nonetheless stays within the listing in Disk Utilities).
diskutil eject disk4
diskutil umount disk4
diskutil unmountDisk pressure disk4
The output of those instructions are all “profitable unmount” or “ejected efficiently”.
How can I truly unmount it? I do not need to have a excessive unsafe shutdowns quantity on the sensible report, presumably damaging the SSD.
PS. Once I click on the unmount button within the GUI Disk Utilities window of the top-most degree of an exterior drive, e.g. an spinning HDD, or a flash drive, an SD card, all of them disappear off the listing on the left sidebar.
