@David-TP My situation looks like scenario 2 - below the screenshots as requested. Note: my firmware is up-to-date. I formatted the SSD in ex-Fat - I tried create a few partitions and just as a...

@HelpFixDecoApp I have received advice from a few people, many thanks for this. Following the advice and what I could find on internet I have connected the SSD directly to my Mac and formatted the...

Thank you – when I plug the SSD directly into my Mac it works fine – it is visible in Finder and I can select it as disk for Time Machine. I ran First Aid and it is all in order. I bought the BE65 so...

@HelpFixDecoApp Thank you for your advice - I reformatted the SSD to ex-FAT as indicated, despite the documented recommendation to use APFS, and I managed to mount the SSD and can see it in Finder....

Looking for advice - I woiuld like to connect a 2Tb portable SSD to my BE65 USB port and use it for my Mac TimeMachine. No matter how I format the SSD and connect through the SMB// command, I only...