In a pinch, I purchased a 2020 iMac with the standard 512GB drive. I have had 3 external drives, all when under heavy IO, have multiple issues. Either get the eject error message or system goes into the spinning beachball.
I tried, unsuccessfully to run parallels off the drive and now Photos lock up.
I thought maybe related to APFS and external drives, however, this has been happening since Catalina. All BETA.
Current Environment
Inland Premium 2TB SSD 3D NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive
Spin Report
Date/Time: 2021-02-11 16:04:16.684 -0700
End time: 2021-02-11 16:32:10.659 -0700
OS Version: macOS 11.3 (Build 20E5172i)
Architecture: x86_64h
Report Version: 32
Data Source: KPerf Lightweight PET
Shared Cache: DB4CE127-0183-3337-9D6A-7DA6BEF355B5 slid base address 0x7fff20268000, slide 0x268000
Reason: Slow response to HID event
Command: Photos
Path: /System/Applications/Photos.app/Contents/MacOS/Photos
Identifier: com.apple.Photos
Version: 6.0 (340.0.140)
Build Version: 101
Project Name: Photos_Apps
Source Version: 340000140000000
Parent: launchd [1]
PID: 1374
Time Since Fork: 12090s
Event: spin
Duration: 579.08s
Duration Sampled: 9.97s (HID event started 569.2 seconds before sampling)
Steps: 615 (10ms sampling interval)
Report threshold: 0.5s
Hardware model: iMac20,1
Active cpus: 16
Boot args: chunklist-security-epoch=0 -chunklist-no-rev2-dev
Time Awake Since Boot: 6602s
I tried, unsuccessfully to run parallels off the drive and now Photos lock up.
I thought maybe related to APFS and external drives, however, this has been happening since Catalina. All BETA.
Current Environment
Beta (20E5172i)
Inland Premium 2TB SSD 3D NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive
Spin Report
Date/Time: 2021-02-11 16:04:16.684 -0700
End time: 2021-02-11 16:32:10.659 -0700
OS Version: macOS 11.3 (Build 20E5172i)
Architecture: x86_64h
Report Version: 32
Data Source: KPerf Lightweight PET
Shared Cache: DB4CE127-0183-3337-9D6A-7DA6BEF355B5 slid base address 0x7fff20268000, slide 0x268000
Reason: Slow response to HID event
Command: Photos
Path: /System/Applications/Photos.app/Contents/MacOS/Photos
Identifier: com.apple.Photos
Version: 6.0 (340.0.140)
Build Version: 101
Project Name: Photos_Apps
Source Version: 340000140000000
Parent: launchd [1]
PID: 1374
Time Since Fork: 12090s
Event: spin
Duration: 579.08s
Duration Sampled: 9.97s (HID event started 569.2 seconds before sampling)
Steps: 615 (10ms sampling interval)
Report threshold: 0.5s
Hardware model: iMac20,1
Active cpus: 16
Boot args: chunklist-security-epoch=0 -chunklist-no-rev2-dev
Time Awake Since Boot: 6602s