I have not tried fresh installing to either of those enclosures yet which may attach the "missing part" and run. this was not present when booting from the LaCie or ONYX enclosures which may explain why Windows didn't run on those enclosures. I did not try any repair attempts because I didn't want to have to start over, however I did notice that the Seagate Thunderbolt Adapter flashed what appeared to be a BIOS message on the screen at the start of the boot process. Both enclosures started the boot, but stopped with an error that it couldn't find an important part. However, I did try to relocate the Samsung SSD with Windows on it over to the LaCie "Little Big Disk" Thunderbolt enclosure, and the ONYX MINIPORT USB 3.0 enclosure. I have been able to create/install a Windows 8 boot disk using a Samsung SSD mounted on the Seagate Thunderbolt Adapter, and it seems to run very well. maybe open it later and install inside) with the highest speed possible. So, I am very interested in keeping my Windows external to the iMac (for now. I need a bootable Windows environment on my iMac, and don't want to use any of my internal 768GB SSD. Windows Booting from Thunderbolt Adapter/Enclosures Right: BackupPlus (4GB test file size option) I get the same results with AJA Disk Test program. they are both the same speed with a Crucial M4 256GB: Hopefully, the above information may be helpful to others to identify which they have, or which they are buying. I will try to run some tests with the same SSD on both units to try to quantify the differences. They look identical, and it is misleading that both units have the same "Model: SRD0001" printed just under the title name. Label: Seagate GoFlex Adapter Thunderbolt My older unit is: Seagate GoFlex 1 TB Ultra-Portable External Hard Drive for Mac with Thunderbolt Adapter I just received a new: Seagate Thunderbolt Adapter for Backup Plus Portable Drives
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