external boot drive

I have a iMac 27, 3.4 late 2013 standard model and I want to make it better by booting from an external SSD disk via TB2. Now SSD speeds of 500MB/s would be ok but if it would be possible I would like using something like RAID 0 in order to get higher speeds (or maybe you know other solutions...

Hello, I was wondering about getting an external SSD to boot macOS 10.12 from. I mean basically using my MBP as a host that shares all the hardware but the storage with the external SSD. My question is, if I get a virus on the SSD, will it affect the MPB even when booted on the soldered apple...

I have a strange problem. When I want to export my most recent project from iMovie to iTunes, the process stops and forces a reboot of the computer. If I export to a movie file, iMovie crashes. Each time. Now the funny part. I run OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 from external SSD on a 2012 basic Mac...

I have a strange problem. When I want to export my most recent project from iMovie to iTunes, the process stops and forces a reboot of the computer. If I export to a movie file, iMovie crashes. Each time. Now the funny part. I run OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 from external SSD on a 2012 basic Mac...

Hello there, first post! Hope this is in the right place. After trying a few methods of installing Windows 10 on an external drive (SanDisk ultra 2 500GB SSD in an enclosure) using my old mid-2010 27' iMac, I hit success using Rufus to create bootable software with Windows to go using this...

Hello! I am looking to install Windows 10 on an external drive to avoid taking up space on my internal Flash drive on my iMac (27-inch, Late 2013). I know Windows cannot boot off USB (at least not without some major tinkering), so Thunderbolt is the way to go. Can anyone who's done just that...

Hello, could anybody recommend me which brand/model would be ideal to run latest mac os? I'm not looking for anything more than 500GB max... Thank you!

Hello everybody, I'm wondering if anybody has any experience installing and booting mac os from SSD drive Samsung T3. Reading from older articles it seems there was software (samsung) issues with the T1, but so far I couldn't find anything specifically with respect to the new T3. Any thoughts or...

Hi all, so I just bought a new MacBook 2016, i7 2.7ghz, 16gb, Radeon Pro 455. I am coming from Windows 10 and want to also run Windows 10 on this new MacBook. I have done a Windows install to an external SSD and this seems to work pretty ok, but I am now wondering should I return this unit and...

Hello, I have tried a lot of things but i don't seems to find the way to install windows with bootcamp assistant on a external SSD anyone with any tips for me ? Here's the most useful link I found but can't seems to get the 1st step right ! Thanks a lot

Hi guys, I'm using a 2014 iMac Retina with a 1TB Fusion Drive. I like to upgrade my Mac to include more than 120GB of SSD storage, so at first I looked at replacing the internal hard drive. The 68-step iFixit guide mat it seem like a pretty risky procedure, and I'm now wondering if you can use...

Happy New Year! The internal drive in my 2009 iMac is dead, so I've been using an external boot drive (I didn't want to invest the money in having a new drive installed). This is a second computer, used mostly for email, so it doesn't need to be very powerful. Recently, however, it has been...