External SSD boot drive and dropbox

[need to restart]

I'm looking to use a Samsung T5 SSD as a boot drive and home to my dropbox folder.

Dropbox warns against putting your dropbox folder on an external drive

• If you’re moving the Dropbox folder to an external drive, the Dropbox folder must be available when your computer boots and before the Dropbox desktop app starts. If the Dropbox desktop app starts before such a drive mounts and gets recognized by your computer, you'll see an error. Dropbox will then give you the opportunity to relink your Dropbox account or exit if it can’t find your Dropbox folder.
  • If the external drive is disconnected from the computer while Dropbox is running, there's a small—but real—chance that the app will start deleting files before realizing that the entire drive has been removed.

I'm thinking if the external is the boot drive, that would solve the issue of the drive being available on startup.

But what happens if the external boot drive accidentally gets unplugged from the mac while it's running?

 

[Isamilis]

I am using the same setup. If the external boot drive suddenly unplugged, then system will be hang / unresponsive. You need to restart then. Btw, as I use T5 in iMac, I attach the drive to the standing behind (using double-tape), to prevent the drive disconnected accidentally. Regarding dropbox, I found no issue / warning from Dropbox app with this setup.

I'm looking to use a Samsung T5 SSD as a boot drive and home to my dropbox folder.

Dropbox warns against putting your dropbox folder on an external drive

• If you’re moving the Dropbox folder to an external drive, the Dropbox folder must be available when your computer boots and before the Dropbox desktop app starts. If the Dropbox desktop app starts before such a drive mounts and gets recognized by your computer, you'll see an error. Dropbox will then give you the opportunity to relink your Dropbox account or exit if it can’t find your Dropbox folder.
  • If the external drive is disconnected from the computer while Dropbox is running, there's a small—but real—chance that the app will start deleting files before realizing that the entire drive has been removed.

I'm thinking if the external is the boot drive, that would solve the issue of the drive being available on startup.

But what happens if the external boot drive accidentally gets unplugged from the mac while it's running?

 

[need to restart]

Thanks Isamilis!

 

[Fishrrman]

I just retired a 2012 Mac Mini that booted and ran from an external drive for more than six years.
During that time, I -might have- accidentally disconnected it once or twice -- can't even remember.

In any case, if that occurred, it would boot right up again as soon as it was re-connected.