That variation of the icon continued through the Apple Silicon-era Big Sur redesign and was still with us in the very first public beta develop for macOS 26 Tahoe that Apple launched recently. The brand-new beta likewise updates the icons for external drives (orange, with a USB-C port on top), network shares (blue, with a world on top), and detachable disk images (white, with an arrow on top).

Other icons that recycled or riffed on the old hard disk icon have actually likewise been altered. Disk Utility now appears like a wrench tightening up an Apple-branded white bolt, for some factor, and drive icons within Disk Utility likewise have the brand-new SSD-esque icon. Installer apps utilize the brand-new icon rather of the old one. Browse to the/ System/Library/CoreServices folder where a number of the integrated os icons live, and you can see a lot of others that exchange the old HDD icon for the brand-new SSD.

Apple initially provided a Mac with an SSD in 2008, when the initial MacBook Air came out. By the time “Retina” Macs started showing up in the early 2010s, SSDs had actually ended up being the main boot disk for the majority of them; laptop computers tended to be all-SSD, while desktops might be set up with an SSD or a hybrid Fusion Drive that utilized an SSD as boot media and an HDD for mass storage. Apple stopped delivering spinning hard disks totally when the last of the Intel iMacs disappeared.

This does not really matter much. The old icon didn’t look just like the SSD in your Mac, and the brand-new one does not truly appear like the SSD in your Mac either. We didn’t desire to let the old icon’s passing go unremarked. Thanks for the memories, Macintosh HD difficult drive icon! Keep spinning, any place you are.