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dcmaccam

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Sep 14, 2017
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I boot my 2019 iMac running Monterey from a Samsung X5 Thunderbolt drive. The drive contains a WD 750 Black SSD. It runs great with this configuration. Is there any thing in Ventura that will stop me from continuing to boot up this way. Not planning to upgrade yet but maybe soon.
 
I installed it on a Samsung X5 using my MBP 16” (intel) today just to test it out, no issues occured during installation, so it should work fine. I’m also booting my iMac 2019 from another X5 drive, but haven’t decided if I will upgrade from Catalina.
 
Ventura boots well on an external SSD connected to the thunderbolt port of my Mac Studio 24. The only thing I had to do with the upgrade is to use an USBA-cable. Afterwards I could use the thunderbolt Usbc-cable.
 
I have 3 installations of Ventura running on External Thunderbolt 3 SSD's. Two of them are bootable backups and 1 is a test configuration. I created all of those using the recovery mode in Venture. It allowed me to install Venture on those and then copy the my internal drive to the new clones. I now use CCC to run backups from my internal drive to all three of the SSD's. 2017 iMac, 1tb ssd. Not sure if this helps but works great for me.
 
I was think of just doing a direct upgrade over my Monterey installation which is running on my External Thunderbolt 3 drive. Hoping it will boot correctly after the installation. I have backups on my time machine drive.
 
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