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What is the best sequence and path to getting everything up and running perfectly? Should I clone the drive then do an snow leopard upgrade to the new hd. Or should I do a fresh install of Leopard on the new hd (Raptor) then do the snow upgrade? I have also heard that I need to leave the old video card in until I have the hd's all switched over to how I need them, then do the driver upgdae for the new GTX 285, then turn the mac off and remove the old vid card and install the new one. Is all this correct? I just need a sequence of events that needs to happen. I do not have anything on this hd that I need to keep, so a fresh install would not hurt anything. Thanks guys. also, should I setup one of my black caviers for a scratch drive? And if so, do I need to do something different to do that?

What is the best sequence and path to getting everything up and running perfectly?
Break the questions into a check list helps.
I like to 'diagram' drive layout and what goes where.
Give yourself time to format and test each.
Should I clone the drive then do an snow leopard upgrade to the new hd.
Or should I do a fresh install of Leopard on the new hd (Raptor) then do the snow upgrade?
Format the drives with Snow and if you want, clone your old system over. It shouldn't matter other than email, prefs, web bookmarks and such either way.
I have also heard that I need to leave the old video card in until I have the hd's all switched over to how I need them, then do the driver upgdae for the new GTX 285, then turn the mac off and remove the old vid card and install the new one. Is all this correct?
SL has the GTX drivers (who/where you heard, is off)
I just need a sequence of events that needs to happen.
See #1
Thanks guys.
also, should I setup one of my black caviers for a scratch drive?
And if so, do I need to do something different to do that?
Assuming you don't need 900GB of scratch, then yes, partition and use the outer 1/3.
Better yet, format each drive as 1/3 and 2/3 and then drag the 1/3 partition sections into the RAID create tab and window and make sure to set as RAID0 stripe (mirror is the default) so you have a fast scratch volume.
You said you wanted fast. I'd have gone 3 x 1TB WD Black even.
Drive bay #4 now is your current system.
Pull it out? use it external backup.
Put 2TB backup there.
Use the 650GB x 2 partitions left from setting up scratch for media library.
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