On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:26 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > > on 2013-12-24 8:44 Bruce Walker wrote > >> By not booting from and running the OS from an internal SSD you are >> missing out on one of the most important performance boosts you would >> have otherwise received. > > > i assumed Stan would be booting from his external SSD; current SATA-3 SSDs in > USB 3 enclosures might not match the Apple internals (which use PCIe and can > exceed SATA-3), but i doubt the difference will often be noticeable > > also, Stan's iMac has a an empty PCIe storage slot, so he can actually add a > cheaper and faster one later (after the warranty expires, and if he feels up > to messing with the adhesive)
Well, hell, if Stan's iMac can boot off external USB drives then he'll be in great shape. Since older Macs can only boot from Firewire I assumed that newer ones would have a similar restriction like only booting from Thunderbolt. There's usually some sort of issue with supported equipment. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
