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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:08 pm
by wilxon
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.
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.
Re: Just put a 320 gb HD in my macbook pro. diggin' it.
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:13 pm
by wilxon
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....
LOL, i have some 400gb & 500gb on their way, made by Hitachi. Only problem is that they are 12mm thick instead of the usual 9.5mm thick. Im gonna test one (500gb) in my MBP and see how compatable it is. It definatly wont fit in a macbook but i rekon there is a good chance it will only just fit in a macbook pro.
Ill report back and tell you what i find
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:26 pm
by doc holiday
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!
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:25 pm
by wilxon
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!
Yea, i see your point, i havnt had a bad one yet, but im still using Tiger and not leopard.
apparantly it doesnt work as well with leopard
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:39 pm
by doc holiday
really with any cloning utility you should boot into your clone just to make sure.
it's better to be safe then sorry!
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:01 am
by atlantis
Don't forget to add an external hard drive for backups. I hate losing all of my data. Splurge and get a UPS with that also for the power surges coming this summer!
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:15 am
by dysanfel
I just did the same to my MBP, 320gig is great.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:04 pm
by Winston
dysanfel wrote:I just did the same to my MBP, 320gig is great.
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:48 pm
by philipc
I have a 180gb 7200 drive that i installed about a month ago and the thing absolutely flies. It boots up OSX in about half the time compared to before although curiously Windows is no quicker.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:01 pm
by dysanfel
Winston wrote:dysanfel wrote:I just did the same to my MBP, 320gig is great.
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.
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.
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!!
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:11 pm
by Winston
dysanfel wrote:Winston wrote:dysanfel wrote:I just did the same to my MBP, 320gig is great.
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.
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.
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!!
Have you ever tried verifying/repairing permissions?
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:21 am
by dysanfel
Winston wrote:dysanfel wrote: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.
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.
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!!
Have you ever tried verifying/repairing permissions?
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.
Yes, I repaired my permissions immediately and got no such warning. Hmmm..