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pastrychef's Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (WI-FI AC) build w/ i9-9900K + AMD 6600 XT

Recopied EFI folder onto EFI (EPS) partition. Rebooted. In BIOS, still don't see something like (UEFI: SABRENT) in boot settings. Only see Samsung USB and WBM (Sabrent). Clearly the WBM details (in EFI:EFI\WINDOWS) are readable, but the OC stuff isn't. But on the Samsung USB, it works fine.

#frustrating
 
pastrychef said:
I won't be building a new hackintosh based on new Intel chipsets. I've gotten a Mac Studio and have fallen in love with it.

However, I did recently use old parts I had laying around and put together a hackintosh based on an HP ProDesk 400 G3.
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Once you're bitten by the hackintosh bug (like Peter Parker and the radioactive spider) it changes you forever. It's difficult to go back to only using Apple built Macs. Guess we'll all have to do that eventually. It doesn't mean we have to get rid of our older hacks we like so much.

A bite from a spider somehow granted teenager Peter Parker its arachnid abilities and instead of using them for personal gain, he decided to help others with them. An orphan living with his aunt, May Parker, the boy chose to wear a mask while fighting crime so as not to burden her with his actions.
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trs96 said:
Once you're bitten by the hackintosh bug (like Peter Parker and the radioactive spider) it changes you forever. It's difficult to go back to only using Apple built Macs. Guess we'll all have to do that eventually. It doesn't mean we have to get rid of our older hacks we like so much.
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I was looking for a cheap alternative to a Raspberry Pi 4 as the prices of those have climbed to the neighborhood of about $200 (more if you factor in cost of heatsink, power adaptor, SD card). Since I had CPU, RAM, and storage already, the ProDesk Mini build made great sense since barebones units can be found for $40-50 now.

Since a single i7-7700T can easily do the job of 2-3 Pis, the power consumption pretty much evens out. Also, since it's an X86 system, I was able to run macOS instead of Linux. Given a choice, I'll choose macOS over any other OS every time.
 
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dclive said:
What is the downside or the impact of this?
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Poor TRIM implementation which leads to ultra long boot times after you've used the drive for some time. It doesn't show up right away. Similar to what happens with Samsung NVMe drives. You can use it a while and see if it happens. I would make a clone of it to another NVMe like a WD SN570 or SN770. Then you've got a bootable backup if things go haywire.
 
trs96 said:
Poor TRIM implementation which leads to ultra long boot times after you've used the drive for some time. It doesn't show up right away. Similar to what happens with Samsung NVMe drives. You can use it a while and see if it happens. I would make a clone of it to another NVMe like a WD SN570 or SN770. Then you've got a bootable backup if things go haywire.
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So is the issue things might go haywire, or is the issue that boots might take more time? Two totally different scenarios. Where can I read more about this?

I have my HP EX920 backup still. :) And (Zzzzz!) Time Machine too.

I wasn’t terribly impressed with Carbon Copy Cloner results. Doing a fully copy didn’t result in a bootable disk after the copy was done, even though I had a working EFI on it, a working EFI on a USB stick (tested known good), and the copy went without errors. That said, once I (manually) installed 13.1 and then updated to 13.2 on there, at least it works and all my data and VMs and such are there, so there’s that….
 
dclive said:
I wasn’t terribly impressed with Carbon Copy Cloner results. Doing a fully copy didn’t result in a bootable disk after the copy was done, even though I had a working EFI on it, a working EFI on a USB stick (tested known good), and the copy went without errors. That said, once I (manually) installed 13.1 and then updated to 13.2 on there, at least it works and all my data and VMs and such are there, so there’s that….
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Nowadays, I just boot in to the Recovery partition, do a clean install on the new drive, then use Migration Assistant. This has worked great for me every time I've done it.
 
dclive said:
So is the issue things might go haywire, or is the issue that boots might take more time? Two totally different scenarios. Where can I read more about this?
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It's the extra wear and tear on the drive that results from TRIM not working properly and causing the long boot times.

"The outcome is that trimming on such SSDs will be non-functional soon after installation, resulting in additional wear on the flash."

You can read the technical description of the problem as explained by vit9696.

 
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trs96 said:
It's the extra wear and tear on the drive that results from TRIM not working properly and causing the long boot times.

"The outcome is that trimming on such SSDs will be non-functional soon after installation, resulting in additional wear on the flash."

You can read the technical description of the problem as explained by vit9696.

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I suspect by the time I care I'll have moved the requirement for that machine to M2. I just bought the M2 Mini $499 model for a basic infrequently-used area, and honestly, it's sufficient to replace the i5-9400 + RX580 that was in the room. No, gaming (Starcraft II!) is not quite as good, but everything else is much faster.
 
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