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Originally Posted by pwalker8
People already boot from external storage.
I use an external raid drive (drobo) on my iMac for most of my media (iTunes and Calbre) and never have noticed any real delay. You just need to make sure you use a different drive for your backups since time machine can drag disk performance down quite a bit while it's backing up. I use two raid drives, which is a bit expensive, but is much better from a reliability and speed point of view.
If I were to use a mac-mini as a primary desktop, I would likely max out the RAM, get the base SSD hard drive and get a nice raid external hard drive.
I would use a different strategy for a laptop.
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Heh, yeah... I actually boot my windows partition from an external SSD on my MacBook Air just cause I don't have enough internal space for it. Works alright, except for the fact that my battery drains like crazy with this setup!