Mr. Blonde Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Hi, Purpose: I want to be able to create a seperate Mac OS X installation with Final Cut Studio on it. So I can boot up any (Intel) Mac with Alt and choose to boot from my external "Mac" (the HD). Mac: iMac 24" (Intel, standard version) Experience: I used my home made external (took the parts from a external housing) Maxtor DiamondMax 10 USB HD drive (7200 RPM PATA133 200GB). It works but it crashes when to many Apps are running at the same time. Last time it crashed completly and doesn't boot up any more. Question: Is it caused by the bandwith of the USB 2.0? How can I solve it (buy a firewire HD?)? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I think FireWire is better by far, very far. I used with My PowerBook and never had a problem, but my choices wre narrow because USB in my PB is 1.1 so very poor transfer rate. It's a shame that PCs dont boot with FireWire Disks (at least I never known any that could). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Blonde Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 I think that the FireWire 800 drives are the best choise for my purpose. Opinion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scart Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 By far go with a firewire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 firewire, you can't boot up off of usb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Yes he can, he has an Intel Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 on intel, you can boot up off of usb, but don't you need to do modding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_4e Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Regardless if you can boot off of a USB drive (I have no clue), if you're running apps like Final Cut, you would definately want the performance of firewire over usb. The differences are pretty substantial if you get the 800. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Blonde Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 It is possible to boot from USB , you've got to set the partitions to GUID. I think I'm going to search for a nice FireWire 800 disk. Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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