Careful though. Filling an SSD will hurt performance. More free space the better. Dont cram her fullThank you, I will check my data to see if it fits the 256 gb internal drive.
Careful though. Filling an SSD will hurt performance. More free space the better. Dont cram her fullThank you, I will check my data to see if it fits the 256 gb internal drive.
Thanks, will do.Careful though. Filling an SSD will hurt performance. More free space the better. Dont cram her full
I suppose there must be ways to avoid all the possible issues and and all will be fine. Or that the folks who have had issues got special workflows or softwares that runs into this where others don’t.I have always done it this way, people always say I'll have problems, and they might be right.... but years later I'm waiting for these problems...
I might change my ways and do symlinks though if I do run into any problems, but fingers crossed I don't need to. Keep in mind, I dont do "work" on my mac, I wont lose money if I have to create a new local account or reinstall my OS.
I did do some googling and it seemed like Monterey caused havoc on these types of setups with updates. I did do a upgrade last night from 13.0 to whatever is the latest now and kept going no problem..I suppose there must be ways to avoid all the possible issues and and all will be fine. Or that the folks who have had issues got special workflows or softwares that runs into this where others don’t.
But the point is with older generations of Macs, the drives were SATA or older and there was no concept of whichever must be the defacto boot volume. However with Apple Silicon this has changed, or perhaps even earlier with T2 T1 chips in the last Intel Macs. Apple killing off all Macs with internal HDDs, then shifting to APFS also means they expect a certain minimum performance from the boot volume. And then there is the added security features that weren’t there before. All in all it makes shuffling the boot volume much less trivial than before
Did you ever get curious and try putting the OS on an external drive since?Done.
I decide to delete some Apps and everything I can , move data to external drive , move Photos to external drive.
I managed to keep everything under 166 Gb. So I use the internal SSD as the boot drive. Have free space around 90 Gb which should be enough.
Move Data & Photos to the Samsung T7.
Took 2 days to install osX and migrate from Time machine backup. (very slow because I use HDD docking with the old HDD I got.)
Have a little trouble with Epson driver. (communication error)
Now I think I got it works fine.
Want to thank you everyone in this thread for your help, input & info.
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
There is nothing special about it. I've run my macs from external drives without problems, including modern ARM processors and macOS up to Sonoma.Did you ever get curious and try putting the OS on an external drive since?
I'm tempted to do because at least then I can plug in a drive to any mini and have "my" computer running essentially on boot. And pretend the external drive is 40% slower: Will I notice in practice? Idk.
Anyhow, it was an interesting read with a twist at the end. Wonder if anyone has tried recently.
I mean the whole argument about the trashcan PowerMac was that "the expansion is on the outside", which could naturally apply to these studios & minis too...