What is the Macintosh HD on Mac?

what is the Macintosh HD



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Posted on May 14, 2023 12:28 PM

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Posted on May 14, 2023 01:37 PM

It stands for "Macintosh Hard Drive" but really means the primary (boot) drive and can include drives with flash storage rather than actual rotating hard drives. It can be renamed, but as others noted "Macintosh HD" is the default name.

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