2nd Hard Drive...internal or external

I'm adding a second hard drive to my MacPro.
I'm looking at a 1TB internal made by MCE prostor
http://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&ProductCode=PS1000GS&Category_Code=STORHDDT&ProductCount=3
or an external...everyone says a Lacie Extreme.
Any thoughts would be helpful
Thanks

Lacie Xtreme is the way to go. The idea is to liberate your machine the extra "stress". Mine have been very faithfull. If I were you I would rather have two 500s than 1TB unit. I like to have all my work backed up in a hardrive outside my system, just in case. Believe me these Lacie Xtreme 500 are flawless with the MAC. It is like having another internal HD, with the advantages of: PORTABILITY, and SECURITY. If you ever get a MACbook Pro, and decide to take all your files on the road, like mua, you just grab your Lacie and go.
P.S. I have learned from experience, when backing up files, it is better to be safe than sorry.

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All my hard drives (internal and external) have a small lock in the lower left corner of the icon and I don't have permissions to access. Permissions are set to 'Custom' in the get info window and I can't change them.

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Terabyte Hard Drive: Internal or External?

I’m shopping for a new Mac and had a Micro Center salesperson tell me not to buy one with internal terabyte storage because, he said, they are not stable; something about losing data packets and as a result data. He recommended buying external storage instead. I asked an Apple Store sales person about this and he said he didn’t know because they haven’t sold many with that much internal storage. Anyone with experience in this? I would much prefer it to be internal because I need to add that much external for backup and don’t want to have two external drives if I can help it.

To my knowledge, there is no difference between an internal and an external drive. The external has a USB/Firewire enclosure, but the disk itself is the same.
Maybe external drive has 2x500G instead of 1x1TB, which may mean better stability, but that is the only reason I see.

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I am shopping to buy an external hard drive, too, to back up all my important data.....but could I buy a external CD RW Burner to burn back-up disc and it will do the same job. Or is is better to buy an external Hard drive to save the data? Will I be able to burn CD Back-ups from my external hard drive?
In other words, I am a little confused on whether to buy an external hard drive or external CD RW Burner? What is the best route?
Thanks for any body that can help with this issue.

Hi,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
I suggest getting a external hard drive over getting an external CD-RW or DVD-RW. One of the major reason is that its great for backing up your internal hard drive; you can do it all in one place. One should always backup their hard drive just incase anything happens to your computer. One can't predict the day when a friend trips over their own feet; knocking your iBook on the floor with a huge crash. The most annoying thing to carry around when traveling is the Mac OS X install discs. I hate bringing them with me because I am in constant fear that I will loose them. The reason I bring them with me is because if something happens while I am away, I can troubleshoot my problem. I can startup from the install disc and then run Disk Utility, Archive and Install, Erase, and partition my hard drive. Once someone has a problem on the road; they will never leave their house without the discs. Instead of carrying around those discs, I partitioned one of my external hard drives into three sections, one for backup (140Gb), one for Mac OS X Tiger (10Gb), and the last one is for Panther (10Gb. I gave my girlfriend an iBook and she has Panther on it). This means I am equipped to startup my computer without using my internal drive.
Have you ever lost your iTunes library or your TurboTax data? Well, by backing up your hard drive (internal to external), you can save all your vital data incase something happens. You will find it a life saver if anything ever happens.
If you are looking into external hard drives, I suggest anything from LaCie, SmartDisk, or Western Digital
I recommend the LaCie D2 Hard Drive Extreme w/ Triple Interface, SmartDisk CrossFire, or the WD Dual Option.
I use a SmartDisk CrossFire for both my iTunes library as well as my iPhoto library. If you need help moving your iTunes library you might want to look at Knowledge Base Document #301748 explains How to Move Your iTunes Library.
I don't think you want an external burner of any kind for backing files because it will cost you a lot more in the end. You will have to use multiple discs for one big folder like iTunes. It is a pain and is also expensive. You can easily loose a disc or scratch it up.
Jon
PS Duane brings up the a really good point.
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Is it possible to use one of the mac pro's internal hard drives as a external drive that can be accessed by a macbook etc?

is it possible to use one of the mac pro's internal hard drives as a external drive that can be accessed by a macbook etc?

Only if you move it to an external enclosure and let them both access it through a file server.

My plan to get win7 on 2nd hard drive

Hi all,
I recently bought a new 15" MPB with an apple installed 128gb SSD drive.
My plan was to install a 2nd hard drive in the DVD spot, a 500gb with a 70ish GB win7 partition. I would like to use Win 7 for screencasting for windows tutorials and for Gaming...mostly for gaming
I thought, naively, that this would be a simple boot agent setup...boy was I wrong.
I have already installed the 500gb drive in the optibay, it is working fine
I did not realize that a macbook pro cannot boot to an external drive or dvd. I could be wrong here but all my research seems to indicate that it can't...using something like refit does not fix this problem
I tried going through the boot camp setup with my external dvd drive attached through USB...did not work
also tried a USB thumb drive...no dice
I'd like to avoid having win7 on my 128gb ssd as there is limited space
my current plan is this...if it doesn't make sense or seems wrong please let me know
put the dvd drive back in
make a bootcamp partition on the sad...maybe 35gbs
install win7
if thats working ok put the hard drive back in
use win clone to clone the bootcamp win7 to the hard drive
hopefully that will work...
I'm just not sure how I'm going to partition the drive
I would like a 100gb ntfs partition for windows
and the rest partitioned mac
looks like win clone can expand the image to the larger partition
ipartition seems like it would work for this, but not sure
any ideas on how I can make a ntfs partition on the internal?
can I partition the drive with a windows machine? maybe do the 400gb as exfat?
thanks

Get http://www.virtualbox.org/
It lets you setup your own Windows virtualized disk image anywhere you like it. You'll still need to boot into Mac OS X, but it can run either seemlessly with Windows or full screen if you so desire.
As for booting externally, Mac OS X has no trouble booting on external drives on any MacBook Pro. As for Boot Camp, check with the Boot Camp forum.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp
Note, when using external hard drive for anything but backup, how many copies you have of information that is both on the internal and external drive.
There should be at least two separate external copies of all your data somewhere in event one fails.

Looking for a 2nd hard drive on DV9700

I want to add a 2nd hard drive to my HP dv9728ca. Are there any specs I should look for? Right now I have a 160GB hd, and the manual ( http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01295898.pdf ) seems to indicate my only choices are 120GB or 160GB. According to the service manual, if I want a 200GB or 250GB, I can't use my 160GB anymore. The possible options are as follows : 250x2 (5400), 200x2 (4200), 160x2 (5400), 160+120 (5400), 120x2 (5400 or 7200, but both the same). Now I've upgraded computers before, even built some from scratch, and I've never seen this type of requirement. Is this for real? I've read a post from someone saying he had trouble with his new drive which was bigger than his original one. What about the 1.5GB/sec vs 3.0GB/sec? My understanding is that the 3.0 is downward compatible, but some seem to pretend you have to set a jumper on the drive to bring it down to 1.5. Any help would be appreciated. And what if I add a 7200rpm drive instead of 5400rpm? I don't see how these should cause any trouble, but from looking around it seems HP motherboards are very specific as to what they'll let you do. I already purchased the caddy kit, all I need is the hard drive, but I don't want to end up with one that's not compatible.
If anyone's added an additional hard drive to a dv9700 series laptop, please let me know what model you chose (brand, capacity vs what you had, 5400/7200, 8MB/16MB).

Hi, I have dv9730ca laptop myself and I have 2 160GB seagate 5400rpm 8MB hdd's, they have an external data transfer rate of 300MB/sec and an internal data transfer rate of 1.1GB/sec. They do get up to around 55oC (i use cpuid - hwmonitor to check this out) and I have heard using the 7200rpm hdd's can increase the heat output so I would recommend using the 5400rpm hdd's instead. The best way I have found to get over the heat issue from any laptop is to use a targus chillmat, it has 2 fans and runs off a usb port. I hope this info helps you out
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Need help with cloning my hard drive to an external

I need to clone my hard drive to an external drive so that it is bootable and able to be used still, but I also need to do a fresh system install on my macbook pro. I have alot of programs currently on my system that I don't want on the fresh install but I will still need to use them on the external if I boot off of it.
My questions are:
1. Is this possible to do
2. If so how do I do it.
Thanks in advance

So virtually 2 different systems being able to operate on the one machine?
yes and yes.
most of the prosumers here keep a pair or at least one clone of every machine they have, theyre priceless tools for recovery from HD crash, and priceless in testing and usefulness.
yes, people use a clone drive for many things including testing or 'sandboxing' new software on a clone rather than their computer.
its the best fastest way to getting back to 100% quickly after a HD crash, many many advantages.
HD clones
Advantages:
1. HD clones are the best, quickest way to get back to 100% full operation in mere seconds.
2. Once a HD clone is created, the creation software (Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper) is no longer needed whatsoever, and unlike TM, which requires complex software for its operational transference of data, a HD clone is its own bootable entity.
3. HD clones are unconnected and isolated from recent corruption.
4. HD clones allow a “portable copy” of your computer that you can likewise connect to another same Mac and have all your APPS and data at hand, which is extremely useful.
5. Rather than, as many users do, thinking of a HD clone as a “complimentary backup” to the use of TM, a HD clone is superior to TM both in ease of returning to 100% quickly, and its autonomous nature; while each has its place, TM can and does fill the gap in, say, a 2 week old clone. As an analogy, the HD clone itself is the brick wall of protection, whereas TM can be thought of as the mortar, which will fill any cracks in data on a week, 2-week, or 1-month old HD clone.
6. Best-idealized 2nd platform redundancy for data protection, and 1st level for system restore of your computers internal HD. (Time machine being 2nd level for system restore of the computer’s internal HD).
HD cloning software options:
1. SuperDuper HD cloning software APP (free)
2. Carbon Copy Cloner APP (will copy the recovery partition as well)
3. Disk utility HD bootable clone.

2nd hard drive buying suggestions for FCE?

I have a 2Ghz dual G5. When downloading HiDef footage from my videocam to FCE 3.5, I about run out of space.
I was thinking of adding a 2nd hard drive.....plenty seem to get an external firewire, but I dread more desk space taken as well as extra cords, especially power cords and another plugin.
I was thinking of adding a 2nd hard drive in the spare internal bay......I don't need to go too hogwild, something in the $200 range isn't overkill......but a raid drive is "right out" as the Brits would say.
Rumor has it the internal should be a serial ATA at 7200 rpms but I have heard SCSI drive are faster for real time editing....
Thoughts and recommendations?

Internal SATA will work great for you. I added a 400GB drive to my system and it's working great. No problems when editing footage either. I also use about 1TB in external firewire storage without any problems. I have two firewire enclosures sitting on top of my G5 tower so they don't take up any desk space.
As far as SCSI goes, technically they are the fastest around especially when striped in a RAID. BUT, they are EXTREMILY expensive for similar storage capacities, more challenging to find, and unless you are editing 35mm or greater film uncompressed, I really don't think they are worth it. If you are editing 35mm film uncompressed then buy a RAID with fiberchannel for connection to your system;-)
Happy editing,
Dave F

Size allowed for 2nd hard drive.

I have an old G5 2.0 ( A1117) and want to add a 2nd hard drive. Is there a limit to how big a hard drive I can install?
I ask because I also have a G4 and there is a limit on the size that it will accept.
Thx

WARNING!!!
It might be, that the the person who told me this, meant this for 3TB external drives. Because here http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=17109770#post17109770 you see, that it doesn't work internally in a G4.
Contradicting to Japamacs posts about WD Green drives not working, they say, that Green drives work.

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Thanks Allan but I dont understand, if I plug my external drive in to USB I am able to boot from it using a very early OSX version, it shows up in the start up disc too, the disc I am trying to boot from is in bay 2 on my mac, as I said it is showing up on the desktop...

DV7-6c90us 2nd hard drive issues and AMD Radeon Issues

The Problem:
1)My AMD card has always been flakey and I've tried multiple times to uninstall it permanently and can't, it won't let me. I want to remove it completely since I'd rather have access to the extra hard drive than the graphics card.
2) when the card is working then my 2nd HDD won't work, but when the AMD card isn't working then my 2nd HDD works
What I'm Working with:
HP DV7-6c90us
Intel Core i7 2670qm chip
16GB of RAM (I added them, Kensington 1666MHz system underclocked to 1333MHz since that's what the i7 maxes out at)
Then whatever obscure AMD Radeon graphics card came with my system.
Windows 8 Pro
2nd HDD is a 1TB Segate Momentum drive, I pretty much took it from a Travel Drive and put it in my latop
Using the standard power brick that came with my laptop (120W) and battery is almost always at 50% or better)
The laptop is just over a year old (got it 06/08/2012 from HH Gregg)
What I've done:
Checked to make sure the 2nd HDD is installed correctly, it is and is plugged in to port two. It shows up in BIOS, but when you try to test it BIOS hangs. It's not corrupt since when it does decide to work, it works without any issues. It even works when I plug in my USB 3.0 adapter and use it as an external drive. That's not really an option since I am constantly transfering and managing that hard drive so it would be too much of an inconvenience.
I tried uninstalling AMD Radeon completely, but can't. I used a site that showed me what to delete from registry, Program File (x86), User App Data (Local and Roaming), and tried to uninstall it through "Programs and Features" under Control Panel (the Catalyst software). At every reboot it comes back like a virus. I don't need it, nor do I want it since the performance is so spotty and has always been, I do need the 2nd hard drive working again since i use it much more than I do AMD.

Huffer wrote:
You will not like the answer but RAID is not possible on that machine. HP does have RAID function on some of the business models but the Pavilion is a consumer model and they have never had a RAID option on consumer models that I know about. Even if you could set up a RAID-0 array it would wipe out the data on the first drive and you would have to reinstall Windows from scratch and when you do a RAID-0 even on machines that permit it the two drives generally need to be identical, not just similar or the same size.
how is it then that some hp models ship with 2 HDD's but show up as one then eg there is a pavilion that is almost identical to mine sorry i don't know the model # but even more recent there are envy models that have this. or do they actually show as separate drives?

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I'm totally new to Solaris. As an enthusiast, I wants to install Solaris 10 on my Win XP PC's 2nd Hard Drive(40GB, empty) from Solaris 10 DVD.
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Happened upon this post while searching for an answer to something else and figured I would give my 2 cents on what you are trying to do so as to offer you some other ideas, as in stuff I have done personally in similar situations, just in case the other suggestions don't work out (and to avoid repartitioning your main hdd if it is your ONLY computer with an OS you have available).
Assuming you have a standard tower or mid-tower with at least 1 free 5 1/4" bay open, and if your motherboard doesn't support booting from a slave drive, and if you prefer a hardware solution so your OS installs are isolated from each other to be certain no corruption happens, like I personally do*. Then you may consider a pair of key lock internal hard drive racks (newegg search "hard drive rack ide" or sata). You would need at least 1 free 5 1/4" bay for the rack mount, then place the hard drives in their housings, each set as master, and you can stick in which ever OS drive you want, turn the key, then boot up (I recommend storing drives not in use in some large anti-static bags for protection). If you have 2 open slots, like I did on my tower, then you can connect both to the same cable and leave both in at all times. Just make sure ONLY 1 drive is keyed "on" at a time, or else you will get errors due to duplicate masters set. Also make sure you ONLY turn the keys when the system is OFF, the racks do NOT make the drives hot-swappable, it is only to offer an easier solution for using multiple hard drives on one PC so you don't have to open the case all the time and potentially damage the pins or the drives when switching them out.. Also you may need longer cables depending on the motherboard controller placement and the size of your tower, 80 wire 40pin if you are dealing with IDE (when you get longer I've noticed less 80 wire and more slower 40 wire cables). As always when dealing with the actual hardware, be extra careful, make sure power is off and PC is unplugged, touch the PC power supply if you don't have better solutions such as anti-static mat/wrist band, etc. You probably know all of this, but just making sure.
*I lost a lot of data one of the first times I tried an open source OS many years ago (some Linux distro, I forget which), I tried to repartition my windows 98 drive, it worked fine for about a week booting between the two, then most my personal windows files suddenly were random sizes and random folders ended up full of garbage files with garbage file names among other peculiar things.. If I partition a drive I generally only do it BEFORE I put data on it or install OS's.. or at least make CERTAIN that I have adequate methods for restoring my OS and personal files (such as imaging my OS install to a larger drive temporarily, etc)..
Anyway, was just offering some possible alternatives to repartitioning your main OS drive.. -TCP

Migration assistant can't find 2nd hard drive.

Hello. I'm trying to use Migration Assistant to transfer data (music) from a 2nd hard drive
I have installed in my older tower. MA has no problem finding my first drive but no detection of my second. Is there simply a preference I'm overlooking? Any help would be great!

franz1 wrote:
The top one has icons showing the two partitions from the external drive and the Air's HD.
That sounds like the Today (Now) display, the one that's show in full when you first Enter Time Machine. It's not a backup; it's the current contents of your Mac.
When I clicked on the 2nd window, it seems to be a back up from July 20, which I remember making on the old MacBook. It has one folder on it with my username.
Yes, that's a backup.
When I click on this folder, I find 4 folders inside it titled: Applications, Users, Library and System. I clicked on Applications and it was empty
That sounds like you'd excluded Applications from backups. Or else you didn't wait long enough for all the apps to be displayed.
sometimes the names of programs covered with a see-through "no parking" sign - a circle with a slash through it
That's an incompatible app.
Is this the Time Machine's records?
Yup.
Can I click on the July 20 date and click on restore? Will everything just come back on it's own?
No. You can restore individual items that way (if you have permission to them), but not a whole system. You can restore "simple" apps that way, too, but not "complex" ones -- ones that came with their own installers, because they install other files in other places. If you don't restore those other things too, the app won't work well, if at all.
Can you post a screenshot of the Migration Assistant window that should show your backups (something like this):

I need to replace my laptop Hard drive. How do I get my iTunes off the old hard drive to an external so I can put it back on the new hard drive?

I need to replace my laptop Hard drive. How do I get my iTunes off the old hard drive to an external so I can put it back on the new hard drive?

Type move itunes library into the google serach bar.
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Help. Can I go to a 1TB 2nd hard drive in my HP Pavilion dv8000 (also listed as a dv8333cl ?)

hello-
I have an HP dv8000 notebook computer running windows xp-sp2. I upgraded my 2nd hard drive (not the windows xp/boot drive - just document/family photo & video storage) to a Hitachi 320 GB drive 4 years ago. it works great but I"m almost out of space.
item/specs - 320GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145227
I would like to change it out for a newer Hitachi 1TB drive - as I am now approaching a full drive for photos,videos,docs.
such as this one - 1TB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 6.0Gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145584
It is listed as having a speed of 6.0 gb/s instead of 3.0 gb/s and It says it's 'Advanced Format'. Any reason my windows xp-sp2 laptop won't be able to use this drive?
In searching around the web it seems that my version of windows xp with sp2 as well as my bios may be the controlling factors. In entering my product number on the HP Software and Drivers page it indicates my bios is up to date (only available update is for an AMD processor). I may update to SP3 - though further research indicates XP with SP2 has no trouble 'seeing' a 1TB drive.
This compatibility doc from Hitachi that mentions these drives are compatible with some HP DV computers - but not mine specifically (dv8000 or dv8333cl) - and it also lists my motherboard/chipset as being compatible - Intel 945PM Express (I'm not sure about the express part but I'm pretty sure I have the Intel 945PM).
http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/5E27D1BA34214ECB8825797B00282A2F/$file/TS5K1000_Compat...
If not the Hitachi - due to the Advanced Format issue - how about a seagate or western digital 1TB drive such as:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178006
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136927
I'm running windows xp with SP2 - it's very stable, my dv8000/8333cl is a centrino dual core intel 1.83ghz, i've upgraded to 2GB of Ram installed, Also I just recovered from a 'black screen' by 'reflowing' (tearing down computer and heating up the Invidia GPU to 350 degrees for a bit to 'reflow' the solder connections to my motherboard) my nvidia Geforce GO 7600 GPU chip and cleaned/re-engineered the heat sink with custom copper heat shims - so my HP laptop is running great and I want to keep it going for a long time.
What are the downsides to popping in a 1TB secondary drive to see if it will be 'seen' and if I can partition and format it for use as my storage drive? Any thoughts? Thanks much!

Seems like my 32 bit windows xp will recognize and use up to 3-3.5GB of the 4GB of RAM. And since memory is pretty cheap now I'm going to try this also.
Anyone have any success going beyond the stated 2GB max for memory?
My Intel 945 PM motherboard/chipset lists max memory as 4GB - so it will only be limited by the 32 bit windows xp?
Thanks for any thoughts.

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