Recommendations needed! I need to run (and use) an iMac from an external drive…

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Charlie Austin] “What say the nerds?”

https://www.movieweb.com/dvd/DVfIWhhfvBTbio/im-a-nerd

[Charlie Austin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “[Charlie Austin] “What say the nerds?”

https://www.movieweb.com/dvd/DVfIWhhfvBTbio/im-a-nerd“

🙂 Well, if you’re a nerd… help a brother out! The lacie rugged TB drive looks good, but only 5400 RPM. I need the system to run more or less the same as it does from the internal drive…

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[John Davidson]

Hey Charlie – is this the newer iMac with USB3?

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Charlie Austin]

[John Davidson] “Hey Charlie – is this the newer iMac with USB3?”

Hey man… 🙂 Yeah it is. I have a little USB 3 toshiba drive, but it boots the machine, and runs it, like a Performa. I’m assuming it’s a slow-ass notebook drive in it? I have to be able to actually work, so i guess I need something gooder…

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[John Davidson]

I’ve had good results with the toshiba Canvio’s. I think the 3TB you can get from Best Buy for $100 if you show them the price on Amazon.

Probably would have been more useful if I had told you that before 9pm :). Blame my Merlot!

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Chris Harlan]

[John Davidson] “Blame my Merlot!”

I hereby nominate “Blame the Merlot” as the official motto of this forum. Any seconds?

Oh, and drive-wise, it might be a little pricy for this, but you can reuse for good times later. I’ve got one of those LaCie TBolt/USB3 SSD drives. Its pretty fast, though it would only give you 256GBs for your faux system drive, but maybe that’s enough.

Here’s a MacRummors thread where a bunch of folk debate the same thing:

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1478771

[Jeremy Garchow]

What is going on with the internal drive?

[Charlie Austin]

Something very specific to me regarding a security requirement from a movie studio 🙂 Nothing for other iMac users to fear…. I’m using the Toshiba drive now. Not real snappy, but it’s working…

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Darren Roark]

I have the LaCie 512gb Little Big Disk with an os x boot partition on it. I use it on my retina macbook pro to test software upgrades. It works really snappy but it was pricy.