doc holiday wrote:Cache wrote:the thing about large drives that scares me is that if something bad goes wrong with drive, you could be hosed.
eg a 1TB drive sounds great, but if that thing gets corrupt and you have ALL your tracks on it.....thats a lot of data to try recover...
if you make proper backups your fine.
Winston wrote:So I just ordered the Western Digital 320 gb hard drive a few days ago and now I got it up and running. I wasn't sure if I'd use the time machine function in to put everything back on the disk as it was or just do a fresh install, but I ended up going for a fresh install. So I'm sitting here re-installing all my software. Good times!
Man, I don't know if it's the extra hard drive space or the fresh install of Leopard, but things sure do feel much snappier now. The thing loads in seconds and apps open pretty darn quick. I had just installed leopard over top of OSX 10.4 before I got the new drive, but I had heard that a fresh install was the way to go, and I'd have to agree now.
Anyways, if anyone's in the market for a new lappy drive, the WD drive is pretty great so far. Totally silent, not too hot, and friggin' huge. 320gigs! Although I had maxed out my previous 160gb HD, I'm not gonna have to worry about space for a while now I reckon.
Ahhh the freedom....
Yea, i see your point, i havnt had a bad one yet, but im still using Tiger and not leopard.doc holiday wrote:wilxon wrote:
I have 2 x 320's, one in an external caddy and i use superduper to make a bootable copy of my hard drive, everyweek leave it running overnight.
EASY.
With superduper, always be sure your clone does boot!
Then your fine!
Hey dysanfel,dysanfel wrote:I just did the same to my MBP, 320gig is great.
I ebayed the 1gig stick and bought a 2gig. Honestly, I have never maxed out the 3gigs, the lappy now runs so smooth that it is transparent. I havent noticed any performance hit from the mixed pairs, only more RAM to spare.Winston wrote:Hey dysanfel,dysanfel wrote:I just did the same to my MBP, 320gig is great.
I just noticed you have 3gb ram in the same machine as I have. How's that treatin' you? I have 2gb right now, and it can only handle up to 3gb, but I keep hearing it's best to have the ram in pairs of the same amount. However, it seems a waste to get two 2gb sticks when I can only use one.
Have you ever tried verifying/repairing permissions?dysanfel wrote:I ebayed the 1gig stick and bought a 2gig. Honestly, I have never maxed out the 3gigs, the lappy now runs so smooth that it is transparent. I havent noticed any performance hit from the mixed pairs, only more RAM to spare.Winston wrote:Hey dysanfel,dysanfel wrote:I just did the same to my MBP, 320gig is great.
I just noticed you have 3gb ram in the same machine as I have. How's that treatin' you? I have 2gb right now, and it can only handle up to 3gb, but I keep hearing it's best to have the ram in pairs of the same amount. However, it seems a waste to get two 2gb sticks when I can only use one.
Even though my CPU is now a bit out of date I have not been able to max this computer out in any of my sessions. I am not a bit jealous of newer CPUs in the MBPs, the 2.16 is plenty enough.
The 320gig drive rocks. I did a clean install of Leopard and then copied all my apps back from a CarbonCopy Cloner backup on my external FW drive. The best part is that EVERYTHING WORKED PERFECT!!
Yes, I repaired my permissions immediately and got no such warning. Hmmm..Winston wrote:Have you ever tried verifying/repairing permissions?dysanfel wrote:I ebayed the 1gig stick and bought a 2gig. Honestly, I have never maxed out the 3gigs, the lappy now runs so smooth that it is transparent. I havent noticed any performance hit from the mixed pairs, only more RAM to spare.Winston wrote: Hey dysanfel,
I just noticed you have 3gb ram in the same machine as I have. How's that treatin' you? I have 2gb right now, and it can only handle up to 3gb, but I keep hearing it's best to have the ram in pairs of the same amount. However, it seems a waste to get two 2gb sticks when I can only use one.
Even though my CPU is now a bit out of date I have not been able to max this computer out in any of my sessions. I am not a bit jealous of newer CPUs in the MBPs, the 2.16 is plenty enough.
The 320gig drive rocks. I did a clean install of Leopard and then copied all my apps back from a CarbonCopy Cloner backup on my external FW drive. The best part is that EVERYTHING WORKED PERFECT!!
Even though everything works fine with the new drive, I do get a new warning when I do a verify or repair permissions. Says something or other and then permissions not reparable for a bunch of things. I'll probably post a new thread about it, but I'm just curious if that's because of the new drive.
