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Post by wiz on Feb 19, 2020 17:36:47 GMT -6
Is anyone running Catalina on external SSD?
I’ve been doing some research but there’s 1 million threads on the subject and I’m wondering if anyone here has successfully done this.
I have stayed on high sierra as Mojave had problems running On external SSD.
If you are running it successfully.... What sort of SSD are you using?
Cheers
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Post by donr on Feb 19, 2020 17:43:42 GMT -6
I'm on Mohave, from a Samsung EVO 1TB SSD in a Other World TBolt 4 bay enclosure. Trashcan MacPro, no issues.
Staying away from Catalina until I'm positive I don't need any more 32 bit apps.
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Post by kcatthedog on Feb 19, 2020 17:59:59 GMT -6
Ah why, instead of just partitioning ?
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Post by wiz on Feb 19, 2020 18:00:05 GMT -6
I'm on Mohave, from a Samsung EVO 1TB SSD in a Other World TBolt 4 bay enclosure. Trashcan MacPro, no issues. Staying away from Catalina until I'm positive I don't need any more 32 bit apps. Thanks for the reply. Is your boot time slow? |
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Post by wiz on Feb 19, 2020 18:07:45 GMT -6
Ah why, instead of just partitioning ? It’s not about that it’s about ssd apps partitioning and Slow boot times |
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Post by kcatthedog on Feb 19, 2020 18:14:36 GMT -6
Fair enuff, too much both to upgrade the boot drive ?
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Post by donr on Feb 20, 2020 3:31:06 GMT -6
A T-bolt SSD is no slower than a built in drive in my experience. If it is, I haven't noticed it. So it's certainly not -defective- slow. All my apps, DAW, plug-ins run on that disk. Session data goes on another one in the same enclosure.
To answer Kcatt, my music computer doesn't need the latest OS at all. But I don't use Catalina on my laptop either. Mohave both of them. I still have my internal SSD, as a backup boot drive, but at 256gigs, it ran out of room a long time ago.
What's the upside of making a separate partition for Catalina?
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Post by kcatthedog on Feb 20, 2020 4:42:19 GMT -6
I understand.
I thought wiz was implying his boot drive was slow. I thought he had a computer he could upgrade himself if so then he could install the fastest ssd he could buy.
I think mac os’s get wierd with a double install: 2 OS, bit you can select your boot drive, so you can have a partitioned boot drive, I think, with 2 OS’s.
Personally, I‘d stay away from Catalina, but wiz has very high IT knowledge and skills, so I defer to him.
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