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Old Jan 16th, 2006, 09:57 PM   #1
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Wondering if anyone could give me advice on a hard drive I picked up. It's the Acomdata External HD E5 (160 GB/7200 rpm). I picked it up on boxing day...and I got a pretty good deal (will cost me $90 after mail in rebate). However, I'm thinking of picking up a new iMac, and am not sure of the benefits of holding on to this HD. Is an external HD something smart to have? Is this model a particularly good one? Sorry for the naivety...just starting to scratch the surface of the world of Mac.
Thanks for helping this newbie.
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Old Jan 16th, 2006, 10:09 PM   #2
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Hey people...
Wondering if anyone could give me advice on a hard drive I picked up. It's the Acomdata External HD E5 (160 GB/7200 rpm). I picked it up on boxing day...and I got a pretty good deal (will cost me $90 after mail in rebate). However, I'm thinking of picking up a new iMac, and am not sure of the benefits of holding on to this HD. Is an external HD something smart to have? Is this model a particularly good one? Sorry for the naivety...just starting to scratch the surface of the world of Mac.
Thanks for helping this newbie.
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BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP. Any external drive is great for backup and as external storage. Once you start playing with video, drive space just dissapears.
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Old Jan 16th, 2006, 10:22 PM   #3
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Absolutely use it for an entire backup of your computer's drive! I have never had a drive go on me in OS X (touch wood), but someday one will. It's just a matter of time and the odds.

You would use an aplication like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to do this. Go to versiontracker.com and search for these software titles.
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I'm thinking of picking up a new iMac, and am not sure of the benefits of holding on to this HD.
A) ABSOPOSOLUTELY as Tyger puts it so succinctly.....you need backup...... BUT

B) Nothing backs up right now as a full clone to the new Intel iMac

Keep it, it's perfect.

For now just backup your user folder and I expect we'll see SuperDuper very soon for the MacIntel world.
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Is CCC no longer good? Drawbacks?
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CCC will not work with Tiger and currently NOTHING works with IntelMacs.
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Old Jan 17th, 2006, 12:12 PM   #7
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Really? CCC works on Tiger just fine for me....
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