OSX Target Drive
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- sem
Hello,
Anyone here got experience with using an external on an iMac or Mac Pro as a target boot drive?
I wanted to know if the Firewire connection would be fast enough? or would there be some seriously lag?
Thanks
- monospaced0
Done this many times. Firewire is fast and will present almost no lag.
- sem0
FW > USB right?
- Firewire > Firewiremonospaced
- Mindblownpango
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- monospaced0
You can do it with Thunderbolt also.
- sem0
I don't have Thunderbolt on my iMac annoyingly. It might be on the Mac Pro i'll be using though.
Thats a whole different connection though right? as in I'd need to find a Thunderbolt drive if I could use it? my brain is not working today.
- pango0
From what I know is that FW has more consistent speed compare to USB3
- monospaced0
If this is just about booting off an external drive, you won't even need to bother with Target Disk Mode. You just have to plug the drive in any way you want (USB, whatever), and then boot from it (Startup Disk).
Target mode is all about using one computer to boot from another computer. For example, I have a laptop for work, but I like to work from my iMac's 27" display at home. Instead of yanking out the HD, which is impossible, I just use the laptop as the target (startup) disk, essentially booting from it instead of the iMac.
- i_was0
You can do it with SCSI also.
- nopemonospaced
- they dropped this over 10 years ago, and no shipping computer has a SCSI portmonospaced