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Upgrading Hard Drives - It's Really This Easy

Let’s get the 320 GB hard drive upgrade, it should be enough space for awhile…

…or not.

When we ordered the MacBook Pro in February ’09 our entry option for the hard drive was 250 GB, so upgrading to 320 GB wasn’t a huge upgrade, but it was roughly a 40% improvement in head room.

When I ordered the hard drives for the Drobo, I added a 500 GB, 7200 RPM with 32MB cache drive to the shopping cart, which in theory should provide some extra performance compared to the 5400 RPM drive that came stock with the MacBook Pro.

I used SuperDuper to create a bootable image of the original drive onto a firewire external hard drive. This process took roughly four hours to complete. With the image created, the next step was to swap out the drives.

Continue reading Upgrading Hard Drives – It’s Really This Easy

Storage is Cheap

I’ve been wrestling with our home backup strategy for over a year now. A little background: We made the switch from PC to Mac in February 2008. Since then I have shed away my previous strategy of using SyncToy with an external USB hard drive, combined with a slew of 16GB thumb drives held at a top secret offsite location.

I now rely on Time Machine, working in tandem with a 1TB LaCie d2 Quadra hard drive. As hard rives go, this is a beauty. It comes with the following connections:

  • Firewire 400
  • Firewire 800
  • USB 2
  • eSATA

It also uses the aluminum chassis effectively as a heat sink, making for an fairly quiet running drive.

Most people would end it there. Continue reading Storage is Cheap