External Hard Drive for Late 2012 iMac (SSD)

[panzer06]

Ahhh yes ... you are correct. However, I thought the OP was looking for a RAID-0 OS X external SSD enclosure.

My experience has been that both the Little Big Disk and the Akitio will not boot Windows on a Mac. In fact, I have not found any dual drive enclosure so far which will. (I am not trying to boot Windows in RAID-0, just looking for a dual drive enclosure in which 1 of the disks would be Windows).

How did you get Windows to boot from a disk in the LaCie Little Big Disk?

I have not yet tried the OWC ThunderBay Mini ... however, I am currently booting Windows 8 from a 512GB Crucial M4 SSD in a OWC ThunderBay IV on my Retina iMac (also has a couple of OS X hard disks in there, my iMac has the 1TB SSD internally).

Conflicting indeed........

Hopefully someone can confirm if Lacie Little Big Disk can/cannot Boot, as I will be using it by next month.

I have a 2011 iMac and it is not fully EFI compatible but my Windows 8 install required EFI. The install kept failing saying it was not formatted in GUID which it was. So I gave up trying to install it and just cloned my Windows 8.1 install from my existing EFI based MSI GT70 2PE.

Put the cloned drive in the Little Big Disk enclosure and selected it from the list after holding down the Option Key during boot.

Once it came up I immediately installed the bootcamp 5.1 drivers. It finished the install and rebooted and all was well except...

NO SOUND

Turns out the 2011 iMac isn't EFI 2.0 compliant so the sound hardware isn't seen. I had to order a USB sound card which should be here by Wednesday. If that works I should be good to go.

Other than sound everything works and I didn't have to re-install all my games.

Cheers,

 

[hfg]

Put the cloned drive in the Little Big Disk enclosure and selected it from the list after holding down the Option Key during boot.

So ... no Windows drivers installed for Little Big Disk compatibility?

Perhaps I will have to try it again ... it has been some time (I have 2 LBD units).

 

[panzer06]

So ... no Windows drivers installed for Little Big Disk compatibility?

Perhaps I will have to try it again ... it has been some time (I have 2 LBD units).

I think it might work if I had a 2012 or later iMac. The Windows install sees the drive but says it can't install to the device and depending on whether I partitioned it first or left it blank it threw up different errors.

After a few hours I decided not to spend any more time and just use a working install.

Cheers,