hi all, I am experimenting with an external drive before migrating anything. I noticed that my system starts to go very slow and lock up when I actually try and make use of the drive by reading/writing. Is this because it is in a single drive setup?
FadingIntoBlue wrote:hi all, I am experimenting with an external drive before migrating anything. I noticed that my system starts to go very slow and lock up when I actually try and make use of the drive by reading/writing. Is this because it is in a single drive setup?
What are you using to connect the drive? If you are using USB with an external, I (and others) have always found it fairly unreliable, slow performance, prone to lock up. I've used both Thunderbolt and Firewire800 with reasonably good performance, others have used eSata I believe.
Also: how do I reformat a drive back to HFS? It won't let me in disk utility.
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