Q: Startup USB pianfully slow, will External USB HD be faster?
My iMAC 2009 OS will not boot leaving me hanging with the spinning wheel of death at the apple logo. With Alt-Cmd-R I was able to verify the internal harddrive is "ok" so it appears my OS X is messed up and needs to be reinstalled. Before reinstalling, I want to save all the data on my interanl HD to an external. I created a startup disk using a 64G USB but it is painfully slow. Would the Mac run faster if the OS was on an external USB 3T HD?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Posted on Sep 9, 2014 5:46 AM
by Lanny,Solvedanswer
Desktops
I created a startup disk using a 64G USB but it is painfully slow. Would the Mac run faster if the OS was on an external USB 3T HD?
If the 64Gig USB that you refer to is a thumb drive, yes, it will be slow. They are not in the same performance league as hard drives.
Posted on Sep 10, 2014 11:29 AM