Timeline for Booting OSX from External Drive
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jun 23, 2015 at 16:10 | vote | accept | secondman | ||
| Jun 23, 2015 at 12:34 | answer | added | Russell Uhl | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 12:21 | answer | added | Tonny | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 11:11 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Nope, still gonna be slow as all hell ;) | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 11:07 | comment | added | secondman | I guess the only question left would be, is there a difference in the external drive being a powered device versus just a USB device? All the drives I'm looking at are AC powered, not just plug and play USB devices. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 11:03 | comment | added | secondman | Yeah it seems to be the consensus. Financially I'm relegated to a 2TB internal or Firewire external. Thanks for the help Tetsujin. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 6:50 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Short answer, not efficiently. It will work, but it will be molasses. You can't force a USB2 post to be USB3. Get the largest drive you can & use it internally. Those iMacs take standard 3.5" drives - now available up to 8TB. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 3:11 | history | asked | secondman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |