If you’ve downloaded a few icons you’d like to try out, lets get started! Open the folder where you’ve stored your icons. If there’s a specific drive you’d like an icon for, searching for the model with followed by “icns download” or “png” will sometimes give you want you want, assuming someone else took the time to make you an icon. For the first 20 years of the Mac's existence, you began your workday by doubleclicking the Macintosh HD icon in the upper-right corner of the screen. icns files for basically all of their icons.īeyond this, I suggest doing some Googling.

IconArchive is another site worth checking out, offering.

I used this one for my second drive in the first screenshot of this article.

DeviantArt has a bunch of hard drive icons, but you’ll have to do some digging.

It’s perfect if you’ve added your own solid state drive to an older Mac, and want to show that fact off a little.

This forum post has a collection of icons for various solid state drives, including the Intel icon I used in the images above.

I don't have a Mac with default naming that has been upgraded from High Sierra, only ones that came already with Big Sur, so I can't really make an. Doing so certainly makes it easier to keep track of which drive is which. The greyed out disk is your boot volume, which would nominally be called 'Macintosh HD' The data drive is usually just called 'Data' in there, though it shows on the Desktop as 'Macintosh HD'. Both Lacie and Akitio offer icon packs, for example.

Some external hard drive manufacturers may offer icons to match the drives they sell.

Here’s a quick roundup of icons I’ve found: You might also find icons in PNG format you can convert to ICNS using an online converter like iConvert Icons.

Look for icons that are square, ideally 512 by 512 pixels (or higher), and in Apple’s. First, you’ll want to find a few custom icons to try out.

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