Use a MacPro hard drive in something other than a MacPro?

Hi gang,
The local Apple Store is one of the only places that sells internal SATA 1 TB hard drives. I wanted to buy some of these to populate an external RAID array. I was a little spooked when I noticed that the Apple website lists these drives as for the MacPro. Are these a proprietary drive, or can they be used like any other internal SATA drive?
Cheers!

This should help give you an idea:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/3.5-SerialATA/
If you want an array, you generally need a controller and one drive per, or something that supports RAID.

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06-sep-2012 0:14
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When using Time Machine, if I delete items from my computer, will they still be backed up to access later on my external hard drive?
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I have just bought a macbook pro and i want to use an ext hard drive with it which i previously used on a windows computer, but when i plug it in it doesn't show up on my macbook pro, I've wiped it and just need to format it but don't know how, help

i have just bought a macbook pro and i want to use an ext hard drive with it which i previously used on a windows computer, but when i plug it in it doesn't show up on my macbook pro, I've wiped it and just need to format it but don't know how, any help would be much appreciated

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Now that i have a mac pro.how can i use a portable hard drive while i have the time machine working on my mac?

what do i do if i want to use a portable hard drive for backing up, if i also see
the time machine also on there?

flora1917 wrote:
what do i do if i want to use a portable hard drive for backing up, if i also see
the time machine also on there?
Do you mean you're already backing-up to a Time Capsule, and want to switch to using an external HD? If so, just format the drive and select it via Time Machine Preferences > Select Disk. See #21 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.
If you mean something else, please clarify.

Time Capsule is backing up more than is used in my hard drive

Hi!
I have been using TC for more than four years and my current one is my second. I am very happy with it and I think it is one of the best apple developments.
However, I have upgrade to Mavericks recently (I update from scratch) and my initial backup become longer than in previous occasions. I have erase also the time capsule because I wanted to have a fresh start everywhere.
Additionally to this longer time backing up I have come to something quite astonishing... Time Machine is backing up more GB than I am actually using in my hard drive... Can someone explain this for me?
Thanks
PS1/ I am doing everything through wifi, and I have an airport port express in the middle.
PS2/ The speed of the back up is just fine... It is not as fast as the previous ones I have done from scratch. I am more worried about the amount of data that it backed up... Besides, in the time machine configuration I do not have all my hard drive for back up. e.g. I have a virtual machine and it is not backep up.
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Some of it.. is the difference between digital bytes and binary bytes.
You are contrasting the Apple bytes and Orange bytes and worrying why they don't match up.. they will never match up. They are not the same.
If you did not realise it, apple changed the way TM reads the disks to digital bytes.. so a 2TB drive does not format to 1.8TB which is the correct size in binary bytes. (real bytes)
Your HD info on the other hand is actually measuring binary bytes.
If you did not realise..
Here is v5.6 airport utility
Here is v6 airport utility looking at the same drive.
And Time Machine.
How does one version of the utility see the disk as 2TB and the other as 1.8TB.. simple.. one is real bytes and the other is the hard disk manufacturers way of making disks look bigger than they are.. ie digital bytes.
So nowadays I just ignore everything the Mac tells you about file sizes because none of it is now believable. What is truth? When you stop having standards then truth is in the eye of the advertising man and you always get the biggest number for specs and lowest number for price.. and neither are true.
if you are using digital bytes or binary bytes.. so think of it as your maths teacher taught you.. 6 apples does not equal 6 oranges. And when you throw away the standard who knows what you are counting.
Check Pondini for info about what size a backup really is.
http://pondini.org/TM/D4.html

I would like to know if you have to back up a macbook hard drive, can I use a external hard drive that has been previously used to back up several pc 's, or is it best to have a separate external drive for the Mac?

I would like to know if you have to back up a macbook hard drive, can I use a external hard drive that has been previously used to back up several pc 's, or is it best to have a separate external drive for the Mac?

In the Mac side of things, backups usually come in two flavors: clones or incrementals.
A bootable clone is a bit-for-bit copy of all essential files in the startup volume. If using the Lions, clones can be made using CarbonCopyCloner or just plain old Disk Utility. These backups represent the safest protection of your info, but take the longest to do. Recovery is an inverse process: you copy the clone back into the internal drive.
Incremental backups start with a complete backup of the startup volume and only copy whatever changed from the previous run. OS X includes the fully integrated Time Machine backup utility to do this. It is extremely easy to do and takes the least amount of time. Recovery is another matter altogether since you have to start with a freshly installed instance of the OS and have to apply all intervening backups to bring the result to the latest saved version.
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Holler if you need specifics on how to do each. This was just an executive summary.

How do i use an external hard drive for all my itunes music?

how do i use an external hard drive for all my itunes music?

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