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 nomel on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:18PM (#29089448)

I think that getting people to understand that regular backup are necessary when physical things, that exist around water, other humans, and electricity, are involved, is an impossible task that usually ends in tears.

If you don't back up your data outside of a single entity, you will lose that data eventually.

iCloud is the obvious choice for critical data, within the Apple ecosystem. Outside of one of the cloud services, it's the good old method of having some form of archival media to keep it on, which was the whole draw of the cloud services, when they first came out.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by whywhywhywhy on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:05PM (#29089849)

As experienced technical people we know that users will never grasp that no matter how many times we tell them, we’ll still be getting handed laptops that can’t boot and the “my only copy of my photos are on there, can you get them off?”

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by dirkg on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:29PM (#29090046)

this is like telling someone that if they lose their keys, or if a light bulb inside their house goes bad, they will lose their house and all their possessions, and then say 'you should insure everything you own'.

Its a ridiculous decision by Apple made purely for profit

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by nomel on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:59PM (#29090966)

I'm sorry, but storage devices have a failure rate of exactly 100%. They always have, and always will. Sometimes spontaneously, sometimes slowly. This has never had anything to do with Apple.

The correct approach to data integrity is backups, not trying to scrape bits from something that smoke has escaped from.

If your data is on a single device, you will eventually lose that data. Some people haven't experienced it yet, but it's a known truth that whole industries have processes around.

[ Parent | on HN ]