Re: Is Mac OSX Mountain Lion ok for photographers ?
Of course a fresh ML (with migration) works better. No question about that.
But I thought I would mention that this is the very reason I decided to remove all internal boot drives from my system and go with USB devices. Mr. Mac doesn\'t like seeing multiple OS X boot devices - and it can cause problems. I think I remember Apple specifically recommending against the practice - I know for sure they did from the early releases of OS X all the way back to the very early versions of MacOS - not sure about now tho. I have the OS installed on a number of thumb-drives and several rotational media drives which insert into one of several cradle bays - externally.
I think it\'s pretty cool that the Mac Pro computer itself has no boot options at all and won\'t start without one of these external components. Security-wise now it really is impossible for someone else using this system to mess up my settings, accounts, or app installations. They have their own \"key\" - an entirely different installation of the OS - with all their own settings and apps in use while mine are completely removed from the system. It\'s also pretty flexible for mission specific activities where the entire environment can be customized and tuned for a given task range - and the whole environment can be changed out for another with the insertion of a different thumb-drive (and a re-boot).
While I haven\'t taken this step yet, I think RAID 0 sets of the cheaper 128GB thumb drives can be used to gain back the tiny bits of speed which are lost as a result of this configuration as well. And for about $150 a fast solution already exists which will make this easy and affordable. I dunno if I\'ll go the RAID 0 thumb-drive way or not but what I\'m doing now sure seems like a nice way to do things. I\'m digging it. And if I could get two or three hundred MB/s from it with a total capacity of 500GB or 1TB that would make it all the better!
Re: Is Mac OSX Mountain Lion ok for photographers ?
Of course a fresh ML (with migration) works better. No question about that.
But I thought I would mention that this is the very reason I decided to remove all internal boot drives from my system and go with USB devices. Mr. Mac doesn\'t like seeing multiple OS X boot devices - and it can cause problems. I think I remember Apple specifically recommending against the practice - I know for sure they did from the early releases of OS X all the way back to the very early versions of MacOS - not sure about now tho. I have the OS installed on a number of thumb-drives and several rotational media drives which insert into one of several cradle bays - externally.
I think it\'s pretty cool that the Mac Pro computer itself has no boot options at all and won\'t start without one of these external components. Security-wise now it really is impossible for someone else using this system to mess up my settings, accounts, or app installations. They have their own \"key\" - an entirely different installation of the OS - with all their own settings and apps in use while mine are completely removed from the system. It\'s also pretty flexible for mission specific activities where the entire environment can be customized and tuned for a given task range.
While I haven\'t taken this step yet, I think RAID 0 sets of the cheaper 128GB thumb drives can be used to gain back the tiny bits of speed which are lost as a result of this configuration as well. And for about $150 a fast solution already exists which will make this easy and affordable. I dunno if I\'ll go the RAID 0 thumb-drive way or not but what I\'m doing now sure seems like a nice way to do things. I\'m digging it. And if I could get two or three hundred MB/s from it with a total capacity of 500GB or 1TB that would make it all the better!
Jan 31, 2013 at 10:00 AM
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