Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed

Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by radley on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:03PM (#29088040)

FWIW, a 4TB SSD with the same speed (7GB/sec) is currently $1200 ($750 more than the 2TB). So Apple's price is decent for the current market.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q54GHTC/

I'm certainly not enthused about being stuck with current market capacities, but at least I don't feel gouged on price.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by lamontcg on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:15PM (#29088821)

Yeah but I don't need a 4TB SSD right now. I barely need a 2TB.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by magicalhippo on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:48AM (#29092625)

At least that extra free space will ensure you have optimal speed (SSD's slow down writes when they close to capacity) and prolong the lifetime of the drive (less write cycles per cell), so it's not for nothing.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by sroussey on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:40PM (#29090882)

I have 2TB of data but use a 1 TB drive and let the OS leave a bunch of files in the cloud, the one I don’t use.

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