ADVICE for running a "toaster clone" to internal drive in QNAP

i need to run a (presumably CCC) clone to a new QNAP drive with the two 1TB internal drives that I got in the mail from DMS today (thanks hatter).
can i please ask the list if there is anything special here in terms of running this which I am promptly going to mail off site to my brother? i'd like to make sure I am doing this right and so far (other than sitting down to re-read the QNAP documentation closer tomorrow) I am thinking that I format the drive as Mac OS Extended Journaled and that I somehow "ground" myself on concrete or keep the drives on a rubber mat or something and basically make sure I am not shuffling about on carpet or have my finger in a socket somewhere?
I'd like to give these a comfy home as well so I suppose I should wrap them in bubble wrap, buy a static free bag from my local camera shop (?) put them in starch peanuts and then ship them off to be kept in this manner in the cardboard box in his garage?
thought to get some sea-faring advice before shipping them off from shore over here.
Thanks in advance for any consideration on this one.
- Jon

So clone them as bootable clones with CCC and try to boot from them to see if they are ok.
You really don't have to get overly paranoid handling the drives so long as you stay away from their pins.
As for shipping, yes, maybe there you can be a little paranoid.    You probably don't have to buy anti static bags if you don't have any handy.  Use some food baggies.

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    I have a MacPro and a second 1TB (blank) internal drive (arriving today)
    I'd like to install Windows 7 on the 2nd drive and have the rest of the drive usable by the Mac for spare space, scratch etc. I don't need a large space for Win 7 - only a couple of Apps and Office. 32 Gig would SEEM enough?
    Looking for most flexible solution. ie copying files between systems. being able to clean Win7 (remove easily and reinsntall) if issues.
    Some posts mention Bootcamp on a second drive seems to take the whole drive by default and not make it easily accessible from the Mac - definitely don't want this scenario.
    ?

    Hi deepshade,
    have a look/read at the BootCamp Installation Guide to be found here http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/ or inside the BootCamp Assistant in OSX.
    Especially the pages 6 and following.
    In essence, partition the second HD to one partition (using GPT as partition scheme (Option-button)) and MacOS Extended (Journaled) as file system.
    Then use the BootCamp Assistant to repartition that HD to two partitions making the needed Windows partition.
    32GB might be too small for your useage. In general about 40GB are recommended but with installing Office and some other apps I would recommend something in the 70-80GB area.
    And since resizing the Windows partition is quite a hassle to do, I wouldn't think "too small"
    It might be needed for the Windows installation to pull-out the HD in Bay1 (and according the Installation Guide this might also be the case just for the repartitioning with the BootCamp Assistant), so you should think about a temporary clone of your OSX from HD1 to the OSX partition on HD2, but your mileage might vary on this.
    And lastly FYI, there is a whole Forum dedicated to Apples BootCamp here http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237
    Regards
    Stefan

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