Not sure drives or enclosures with FW800 ports are still anywhere to be found, but it offers a number of options for booting (such as the Target mode, which I'm not sure USB can do, whereby you boot a Mac from another Mac as an external drive). My next project should probably be to learn how to make a lean, bootable High Sierra system on another of those USB drives.

My old workplace in the US still has their Mac Pro 5s from 2007/2008 running strong. So, hope you get all set up and make a lot of music.īTW, these Pro 6,1s still sell for more than €2500 here in Italy. That thing is a workhorse that's far more reliable than my own brain.) Otherwise, I'd have sold my Proteus 2000 ages ago. (Of course, newer computers can render 15 times as fast and play 4k videos and etc., but that's not my main use. Sure, quite an improvement, but the extra 3ms as of now do not harm my playing. Upgrading that to Thunderbolt while keeping the same quality would run at some 4000 USD at best, and I would cut my latency to about 2ms. RME interfaces still sell for a lot of money, some 300-400 USD for a Fireface 400 like mine. But from a technical and macroeconomic standpoint, I've spent less than 500 US dollars to bring 1TB of SSD to my Mini and replacing the CMOS battery. I'm not the 'old timer' who begs to 'go back' to the 'good old days', quite the opposite. If you and I were to sell our machines, we'd spend 5 times more to get more or less to the same level of efficiency (and, in my case, I'd lose Redmatica's unmatched functionality - the Autosampler in MainStage is nowhere near that). Its original OS was 10.6 server, which I backed up to my firewire drive and I still use it to run the Axon editor and the excellent Redmatica suite, which took years to resurface in stripped down versions within Mac apps. It's obviously slower than newer machines but, at its time, it was blazing fast and to this date it performs quite well. Coupled with the RME interface, I get less than 5ms latency and zero drive correction latency using the firewire port. These Mac Pros are still running strong, and I wouldn't let them go if I had a workflow/setup that is functional for my purposes.įor instance, on my end, I have a Mini Server - Core 2 Duo still - with dual SSD that still works like a champ (it runs on High Sierra). You can backup your internal and external drives onto other drives and if you want incredible speed you can get a Drive compatible with the fastest port you can boot from in your Mac Pro. That's the ultimate goal and the main reason I upped this Mac Pro from Sierra this week.Īs a registered super duper user I recommend it.

I'll eventually be forced to update to Catalina (for work reasons) but I'll want to be able to boot to something my VG-99 librarian and other 32-bit software will work with.

Not quite clear on what speeds I'm getting from these little ADATA drives, but they are certanly sufficient! I think it's the 1st or 2nd generation Darth Dustbin.įor various reasons, I needed to be sure I could revert it to the perfectly working Sierra, so I cloned the whole disk to an ADATA 1TB external USB 3.something. This old MacPro6,1 probably shipped with an OS way older than I could tolerate now. Quote from: mooncaine on December 19, 2020, 12:48:19 PM I have a 7200 RPM drive empty and it's becoming Catalina. So far I have not experienced any pitfall but I will follow your suggestion to keep then separated. I made a Catalina partition to test what I would have lost if upgrade and I boot it here and there to retest. I have a Mojave boot drive via USB (internal HDD on 2013 iMac is toasted) and a superduper backup copy I use for experimenting and keeping backups at the same time. It worked for the most part, but at times Backup wouldn't run.)Īlso, bear in mind that Apple Restore functions (command+R during boot) allows you to restore the last operating system installed - Mojave for me as well - so you don't need to restore to the original system and upgrade to Mojave. (I had a 6TB drive backup all of my machines, with several 1TB and 500GB partitions in it, between FAT, OS Journaled and APFS. I've read posts to that effect and nobody knows why, but it happens at times. Maybe Catalina and Big Sur will fix that, but I've found that Mojave misbehaves when reading from a physical drive that has multiple partitions. Now, whereas it is technically possible to have a drive partitioned to accommodate multiple backups, I would highly recommend you get a single drive and let it all be APFS. Quote from: Dalai_llama on December 19, 2020, 03:06:56 AMĪdding to Paolo's comments, SUPERDUPER and Carbon Copy Cloner - both will create external bootable partitions.

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