Anybody rocking a 500 GB internal laptop drive?
Anybody rocking a 500 GB internal laptop drive?
I installed a 320 about 3 months ago and son of a b. if it isn't already reaching capacity. Looks like my dream of having everything on 1 drive is already reaching it's limits with more software waiting in line to be installed. Damn you sample libraries!
With a new computer in my near future I want to slap the largest drive possible in it before I start the month long process of installing and authorizing everything. There aren't that many 500 GB laptop drives available at the moment and I wanted to know if anybody is using one yet.
We're talking a MBP by the way.
With a new computer in my near future I want to slap the largest drive possible in it before I start the month long process of installing and authorizing everything. There aren't that many 500 GB laptop drives available at the moment and I wanted to know if anybody is using one yet.
We're talking a MBP by the way.
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I put in the 320 after my Apple Care expired. It was quite the experience installing it myself but having accomplished that I've never felt so alive (yeah, my life is boring). Before that I had an 80 GB drive and about 3 externals and that was not sexy at all. Now I just have the 320 GB internal and a 1 TB external and it's just so so sexy.
I used an external enclosure to clone my 80 onto the 320 and made it bootable. I then ran it externally for a week or so until I was comfortable that it would work. It was screwing up some of my Live sets running as an external but once I installed it internally everything worked fine, not sure what that was all about. My advice is to test drive it for awhile but don't do anything important if possible.
I also read somewhere that on the new MBP they make physically swapping the internal drive a lot easier.
I used an external enclosure to clone my 80 onto the 320 and made it bootable. I then ran it externally for a week or so until I was comfortable that it would work. It was screwing up some of my Live sets running as an external but once I installed it internally everything worked fine, not sure what that was all about. My advice is to test drive it for awhile but don't do anything important if possible.
I also read somewhere that on the new MBP they make physically swapping the internal drive a lot easier.
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Word... I'm rocking the before now MBP. 2.33 GHZ Dual core...
It is still very tempting to do the upgrade, cause I could always cancel the apple care and have them give me a pro-rated refund... Then again... I'd be cancelling the apple care...
Apple would probably stop caring about me.
It is still very tempting to do the upgrade, cause I could always cancel the apple care and have them give me a pro-rated refund... Then again... I'd be cancelling the apple care...
Apple would probably stop caring about me.
If you can imagine it, it can happen...
yeah, it's really whatever you've had experience with.. OWC (eshop.macsales.com) has good DIY bundles.. which really means the drive and an enclosure. i got my 500 and a usb2.0 enclosure for $154
(after you back up) i'd also recommend just sticking the new drive in there, formatting it (boot from the external), installing a fresh copy of the OS, and then using the Migration Assistant to move all your stuff to the new internal drive. in doing this before with other machines, i don't always trust the 'clone to the new drive then change them' method. weird things invariably happen.
(after you back up) i'd also recommend just sticking the new drive in there, formatting it (boot from the external), installing a fresh copy of the OS, and then using the Migration Assistant to move all your stuff to the new internal drive. in doing this before with other machines, i don't always trust the 'clone to the new drive then change them' method. weird things invariably happen.
In this case I'm talking about sticking it in a brand new computer so I won't be needing to back anything up. Hell, I might even order the drive before I get the computer so I don't have to wait when I do get the computer.
Also with drives being so cheap I sometimes get in the habit of buying 2 when there's a big jump in drive size. 1 is for the new internal drive and 1 is for cloning/back up.
Also with drives being so cheap I sometimes get in the habit of buying 2 when there's a big jump in drive size. 1 is for the new internal drive and 1 is for cloning/back up.
I have a 1tb drive I am currently using to manually backup my internal 320 as well as storing "bulky" things I don't want on my internal, like Apple Loops and MacProVideo tutorials. Also I'm on 10.4 so no Time Machine yet.
I think the big system I am going to have to figure out is transfering things back and forth between my production computer and my gigging computer and somehow throwing Time Machine in the mix for all of it.
I think the big system I am going to have to figure out is transfering things back and forth between my production computer and my gigging computer and somehow throwing Time Machine in the mix for all of it.