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So you literally cannot boot an M1 Mac with a nonfunctional internal drive, even if you’re successfully ’booting’ from an external drive before it fails? The SS

by mrkstu 6y ago

So you literally cannot boot an M1 Mac with a nonfunctional internal drive, even if you’re successfully ’booting’ from an external drive before it fails? The SSD is integral to its functioning?

my123 6y ago
Yes.
- mrkstu 6y ago
  Good to know- glad I got a terabyte drive then, since it will less likely suffer a wear failure in its usable lifetime, but sad that a wear part guarantees a finite lifetime for a machine with no moving parts.