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Upgrading Hard Drives - It's Really This Easy

By Steven McGurn • @mtl_steve

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.

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Storage is Cheap

By Steven McGurn • @mtl_steve

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

PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 2)

By Steven McGurn • @mtl_steve

So now that my iTunes and iPhoto setup is done (sort of), I moved my attention to trying to create the first of hopefully many family movies that will inevitably embarrass the kids (hopefully they’ll still pick a suitable retirement home for their mom & dad!).

The importing of existing videos from the external hard drive that was salvaged from the HP and placed in an external enclosure was seamless. The videos were added to events and their date/time stamps were visible to iMovie. This helped in annotating and adding bottom thirds to my movie. The clips can also be filtered by criteria, thus showing the clips that made sense to use as source matter. So far, I’m liking iMovie over Premiere Elements.

Continue reading PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 2)

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