
#Macfly pro really slow download
Then, it's child's play to use either CarbonCop圜loner or SuperDuper (both are FREE to download and use for 30 days) to "clone" the contents of the internal drive to the external.įinal step is to go to the startup disk preference pane and set the external to be the new boot drive.īe aware that Adobe products were never speed demons on the Mac (from what I've read from others). Initialize/erase the drive to APFS, GUID partition format (if you're using Mojave or later). Or, you could buy an "nvme" blade drive, and a USB3.1 gen2 enclosure (many available), and just put it together yourself (many just snap together). There are a few USB3.1 gen2 drives you can buy "ready to use", such as the Samsung t7, or Sandisk Extreme (I think that's the name). (Use BlackMagic Speed Test to check, it's a free download)īTW, is it a 1tb "hard drive" in the 2017 27" iMac, or is it a 1tb "fusion drive"? What kind of reads are you getting from the internal drive NOW? You could buy the app for a month to see if you like what it does, then spring for the. USB3.1 gen2 will give you read speeds of around 850MBps, perhaps a little more. MacFly Pro’s range of tools prove useful when you need them, and stay out of your way the rest of the time. The iMac will boot and run as easily from an external drive as it will from the internal, and will be faster, as well. Then set it up to be an EXTERNAL boot drive. Put together a USB3.1 gen2 drive (USBc), and plug it into one of the USBc ports on the back.

If you don't want to mess with that, there's "an easier way": Yes, it IS "a difficult job" to pry open a 2017 iMac and get it all back together - without breaking anything.
