Apple's Target Disk Mode is useful for troubleshooting, but it does bypass the file security offered in OS X, which may be a concern for some people. Here are a couple of ways to better secure ...

Apple equips you with several intuitive methods for transferring files between Macs. These include Ethernet for straightforward wired connections, Target Disk Mode for transforming one Mac into an ...

Booting one of the Macs with the T key held down starts the computer in Target Disk Mode (TDM), and its drives appear on the desktop of the other Mac (the host Mac). Files can be dragged and ...

hints that Apple may add an enhanced version of eSATA to future Macs. The patent describes what is essentially Target Disk Mode for eSATA. The eSATA spec doesn't include any way to do something ...

Apple TIL article #86014 confirms our previous report that getting FireWire Target Disk Mode (TDM) to work requires moving the FireWire 2.3 extensions to the host computer. However, the article ...

Until recently, that methods was known as Target Disk Mode, and it remains in place for all Intel Macs. New Apple silicon Macs with an M1 processor rely instead on Share Disk (sometimes called ...

Apple is also replacing Target Disk Mode, which is used to transfer data between two Macs, with what's called Mac Sharing Mode. Mac Sharing Mode turns the system into an SMB file sharing server ...

Sharing Mode on ‌Apple Silicon‌ Macs replaces the older Target Disk Mode found on Intel Macs, and can be used similarly to transfer data between two Macs. Mac Sharing Mode turns the system ...