Posted on 08/19/2015 10:26:58 PM PDT by dayglored
I think you're using out-of-date info. That was true long ago (like more than a decade), but it is not true now.
Since about 2005, Apple Mac computers use standard hard drives (and more recently, SSDs). The only thing different about the hard drive supplied with an Apple computer is that the drive is certified to meet Apple's more stringent spec requirements, and it gets the Apple logo in addition to the other standard manufacturing information on the label.
After many years of use, none of my Apple computers still have their original (Apple-approved) hard drives. They've been replaced with higher-capacity standard Seagate rotating HDs, or Samsung SSDs. In every case, in addition to OS X, there is Windows 7 installed using BootCamp.
There is absolutely no user-discernible difference between the Apple-logo'ed drives and the equivalent standard non-Apple drive, other than the Apple drives seem to last longer on average.
Ergo, I find it very hard to believe that although Windows can interface flawlessly with either one, some magic BIOS is needed in one case and not the other.
> All this BIOS/UEFI stuff is making my head spin.
I hear ya there. It's confusing.
“I think you’re using out-of-date info.”
I am hardly up to date anymore. But I do remember some SSD tests that suffered under Bootcamp.
Don’t hold your breath but I will look somemore.
Hmmm. That would be worth knowing about.
> Don’t hold your breath but I will look somemore.
Thanks, I appreciate your keeping an eye open. I'll do a little looking on that SSD thing, too.
Still looking. My memory came back a little but I can’t find the site.
It discussed how Bootcamp partitioned the SSD for read/write and said that it wasn’t as efficient as a true Windows partition.
OTOH, I have looked at several sites this morning where people are getting ok SSD performance, some after doing some tweaks.
... still looking ...
I haven’t been able to get data within the last couple of years.
Old data showed that Bootcamp drivers were using IDE instead AHCI but I saw lots of posts where people were getting AHCI to run.
Biggest complaint was that Bootcamp wrote the drivers and they had no strong motive in optimizing for best performance and as a result were not as efficient as they could be.
Still looking at UEFI implementation. My head hurts.
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