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July 24th, 2008, 01:09 PM
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| Replace HD Powermac G5 Dual 1.8 I'm considering replacing/upgrading the original drive that came with the mac to something larger and faster. Installing the new drive is no issue. My question, however, is how do I move the contents of the current boot drive to the newly installed larger drive? Ideally what I'd like to do is simply clone the contents of the old drive to the new drive, and then use the new drive as the boot drive. How difficult would this be, and what would be the best method? Thanks
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July 24th, 2008, 01:44 PM
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| Carbon Copy Cloner. One-click, bootable cloning. Available with a simple Google search.
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July 24th, 2008, 02:10 PM
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| I second the recommendation. I've used CCC to clone some older iMac G3s here at work and it's worked like a charm.
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July 25th, 2008, 03:55 PM
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| Does 10.4.11 put any size limitation on the size hard disk I install? My current drive is a Seagate 160 Gb 7200 rpm model. Would I gain anything by moving to a 10,000 rpm drive? I can get a 300 Gb 10,000 rpm WD VelociRaptor drive locally for around $300. Pursuant to the above, should I look for more drive space (750 Mb to 1 Tb) instead of increasing disk rotational speed? I guess I'm not sure which is more important. Thanks Spakman
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#5
July 25th, 2008, 04:24 PM
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| It's not the operating system that puts limits on hard drive sizes so much as the hardware (computer) itself. Mac OS X does have a theoretical maximum hard drive size, but it's up in the petabytes... much larger than any hard drive produced today. You would gain read/write speed by going with a hard drive with a faster spindle speed... do you do a lot of reading and writing of large/many files in your work? Or do you have tons and tons of files that you need to store and not access so frequently? I think that would be a deciding factor on whether to go with a faster hard drive or a bigger hard drive.
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