Apple apparently thinks that you’d prefer not to see the icons for your Mac’s built-in hard drive, solid-state drive, or those of any external drives on the desktop of macOS. However, I want those icons on my desktop. If you’re like me, here’s how to make them show up. Click on the desktop so the Finder is “active.”. Used to be that every external device you plugged into a Mac system had the same generic hard drive icon, but you’re right, now a lot of drives seem to have their own icons. I think many of them have the icon added when the drive is first formatted by the manufacturer, actually, because it’s sometimes weird how similar the icon is to the. External Hard Drive icon - World 's best selection of high quality Free External Hard Drive icons. You can put the icons for drives on a Mac's desktop by adjusting Finder's preferences. External Hard Drive icon - World's best selection of high quality Free External Hard Drive icons.
Custom icons for AKiTiO storage drives:
Lacie Hard Drive Icons Mac
| File | Description | File size | Last modified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the aDrive U3 | 1371 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for generic AKiTiO drive | 896 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the AKiTiO Palm RAID | 1363 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for AKiTiO Thunder2 Duo Pro | 3160 kB | Jun 02, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the AKiTiO Thunder2 Quad | 1728 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for AKiTiO Thunder2 Quad Mini | 1595 kB | May 17, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for AKiTiO Thunder2 Storage-AV | 1364 kB | Jun 01, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the AKiTiO Thunder3 Duo Pro | 1143 kB | May 24, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the AKiTiO Thunder3 Quad Mini | 957 kB | Jun 13, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the AKiTiO ThunderGo | 1255 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Neutrino Thunder D3 | 1433 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Neutrino Thunder Duo | 1539 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Neutrino Thunderbolt Edition | 1329 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Neutrino U3 | 1863 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Neutrino U3+ | 1863 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the NT2 U3.1 | 1017 kB | Jun 13, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for SK-2500 U3 | 3654 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the SK-2520 U3.1 | 975 kB | May 24, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the SK-3501 U3 | 1130 kB | Jun 13, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for Taurus Super-S LCM | 3261 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Thunder3 Quad X | 801 kB | Aug 17, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Thunder3 RAID Station | 1658 kB | Mar 15, 2018 |
Macsales Hard Drive Icons
How to change a drive icon on Mac OS X
- Turn on the external drive and connect it to your computer.
- Download the icon for the corresponding drive from above and store the ZIP file on your computer.
- Unzip the file and store the image found inside it (*.icns) on the desktop.
- Click on the drive on your desktop to select it and then choose Get Info from the file menu or click Command + I.
- Make sure that you have permissions to access and edit the drive. Usually, there is no need to change anything but if you have read only access, it's not possible to change the drive icon.
- Drag the *.icns image from your desktop to the little drive icon in the top left corner of the Info window. When you see a green plus sign, drop it to change the icon.
- Done! You can now delete the *.icns image from your desktop.
- To restore the default drive icon, go back to Get Info. Select the little drive icon in the top left corner of the Info window and then select Cut from the edit menu.