- Joined
- Jun 2, 2011
- Messages
- 134
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4-B3
- CPU
- i7-2600K
- Graphics
- RX 560
I have an old SandyBridge hackintosh (in sig) that I have Catalina running on. When I last updated it (from Yosemite to Catalina), my Samsung SSD started causing freezes. I had other HD issues (occasionally partitions would start throwing I/O errors, needing a reboot). I abandoned my SSD in order to stabilize my system, and currently boot off a partition on a 7200 rpm drive that also has some data partitions.
I have gotten the system stable, however I still get long pauses (5-10 seconds) of non-responsiveness, beachballs, etc. Often occurs when opening finder, opening a webpage, copying files, unzipping files, etc. I suspect it is related to HD access, possibly the disk needing to wake up, or maybe to many things access the same physical drive. I really don't know.
My Samsung SSD should work, so I am going to revisit that now that my system is stable and see if I can get it working. I also have an Apple SSD that I pulled from a dead Macbook Air. I have it in PCI adapter in my hackintosh and can access it. I understand that my Legacy BIOS cannot boot from this NVMe drive, but that there are some drivers/kexts that may or may not allow this. A lot of this information is old, because my hardware is so old, and I am hesitant to start reading to old/obsolete/abandoned stuff.
Questions:
- Should my system run smoothly with my boot drive on a non-SSD with my data partition?
- Can my system boot from an NVMe drive? Does the type of NVMe matter?
- I know that my hardware is no longer officially supported, updating OSX will be more and more difficult, and this computer has served me well. Is this the end of the line? Is it worth replacing my SSD if the one I have won't work?
I have gotten the system stable, however I still get long pauses (5-10 seconds) of non-responsiveness, beachballs, etc. Often occurs when opening finder, opening a webpage, copying files, unzipping files, etc. I suspect it is related to HD access, possibly the disk needing to wake up, or maybe to many things access the same physical drive. I really don't know.
My Samsung SSD should work, so I am going to revisit that now that my system is stable and see if I can get it working. I also have an Apple SSD that I pulled from a dead Macbook Air. I have it in PCI adapter in my hackintosh and can access it. I understand that my Legacy BIOS cannot boot from this NVMe drive, but that there are some drivers/kexts that may or may not allow this. A lot of this information is old, because my hardware is so old, and I am hesitant to start reading to old/obsolete/abandoned stuff.
Questions:
- Should my system run smoothly with my boot drive on a non-SSD with my data partition?
- Can my system boot from an NVMe drive? Does the type of NVMe matter?
- I know that my hardware is no longer officially supported, updating OSX will be more and more difficult, and this computer has served me well. Is this the end of the line? Is it worth replacing my SSD if the one I have won't work?