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Free Zero Install 2.25.1 for iphone download12/22/2023 ![]() ![]() #3 - Use an external solid state HD as a bootable drive. The first senior adviser gave me three options: They have been on the phone and have screen shared when all this has been done. Incidentally, a total of 6 senior advisors from Apple Support have been involved in this setup. Having Time Machine backup on the SSD I can fit in my pocket is beneficial. At the time, I would want them to restore from Time Machine. The reason I am doing it this way is when I take my iMac to the Genius Bar at the Apple store, they may want to wipe my hard drive clean and then install a fresh Big Sur. When I back up using Time Machine, I back up the internal SATA hard drive. ![]() My SSD external is 1TB, which I have partitioned into a 100GB bootable MacOS, and a 900GB Time Machine partition the I use for Time Machine. So the internal hard drive works normally when the MacOS is booted from the SSD external, but the hard drive is very slow when I boot using the internal hard drive. I am able to quickly access files stored on the internal hard drive. And I have all of the MacOS apps in the /Applications/ folder. I have installed on the SSD external the 3rd party apps I use. (It will get too long in one.) If you get this drive, you will also need this cable. I can walk you through the steps in a separate post. Also, Apple sells it, so Apple themselves trust the drive. If you want to proceed with the SSD, I recommend the. You will see about a 10 times speed improvement for storage. You are better off buying a USB external SSD and running macOS off that. ![]() The speeds for that hard drive are the acceptable speeds, but it might be slightly slower than normal. ![]()
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