Using an iPod or similar as boot drive?
I've heard it either way that you can put OSX onto an iPod and boot from it with all your programs, I've also heard that it's too slow and that it will fry the hard disk. Any thoughts? I recently purchased an Archos Recorder 20 with USB 2.0 and it seems plenty fast (transferred 5.79GB in 7 minutes). In addition, the hard drive has been originally designed as being a laptop/notebook drive and runs at 4,200RPM.
-CFPC
-CFPC
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Don't do it, it's a fragile little drive. Pick up a VST FireWire drive if you want a portable boot disk, but spare your iPod.
It never got hot, it never made funny noises, and it was plenty fast. And yes, my iPod lived to tell the tale, and still serves me quite well, going on six months after purchase. Though I don't use the iPod for that purpose at the moment, just for tunes right now. I'm not in class at the moment, but would probably do it again. I had a good experience with it, found to be super convenient for transporting files back and forth from home to class, and of course it works great for sharing the files with my pismo.
But do be aware that Apple does not officially condone this use of the ipod.
Anyone else have an experience to share?
ciao,
michael
All the horror stories I heard came from the forums over at <a href="http://www.ipodhacks.com" target="_blank">http://www.ipodhacks.com</a>
I have a Firefly 5 GB drive, and yeah, I know that's the same disk as the iPod and therefore is not recommended for booting on a regular basis. But I'd like to have it set up for booting just in case I need to.