I've finally decided to bite the bullet on a new iMac 27 and am now looking for a new HDD enclosure for my old PC's drives(3xHDD, 1xSSD) one of which includes an SSD that I would still like to run Bootcamp off of. Is there anything that is reasonably cheap that could do this?
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4 x 3.5 bay HDD Enclosure for iMac
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I don't have any experience with multi-drive enclosures, but you might want to see what OWC has.
Be aware that you cannot put a Bootcamp partition on an external drive. OS X only allows you to put Bootcamp on the internal drive.
Well that's put a spanner to my plans. Looks like I'll need to un-fusion my internal HDD and partition the SSD in half.
Indeed. I'm sure many people would rejoice if we could put Bootcamp on an external. I know I would! I have a 256GB SSD on my MBP and that partition eats up a generous portion of it.
The Mediasonic ProBox is one option, but what I see people using with the new Mac Pro is the Vantec enclosure, at least those who don't go for Thunderbolt or something with a RAID built-in. Both are $99.
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Not totally true...there are workarounds (see Google) if you have a thunderbolt enclosure (or a Seagate Thunderbolt adapter might work too)
I went with the ProBox on my Mac Mini. Works great, very quiet, price is right. I'm running it as straight USB 3.0.
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I use the probox 8bay for my hackintosh via usb 3. although I'm not sure if you can run bootcamp off of a drive.