Split x2 additional hard drive

I just purchased a Split 13 X2 from Best Buy. I have been reading that it is possible to put another hard drive in the base. Yet I have not found any information on doing this. Does anyone know number 1 if this is possible on all Split X2's and what additional hardware must be purchased, and 2. how to perform this task.

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Of course. If you have everything you need on the SSHD, you can format the old hard drive. To do it, you can use Disk Utility, which you can find in /Applications/Utilities, and you have to follow these steps > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html
After formatting it (I recommend you to format it in "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as Format), you can use it to store other files that does not fit in the SSHD or for whatever you want

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I have a mac os x ver. 10.5.8 2x2.8 quad. my start up disk is almost full. can i change my start up disk from the original hard drive to an additional hard drive i added in Bay 4?

i have a mac os x ver. 10.5.8 2x2.8 quad. my start up disk is almost full. can i change my start up disk from the original hard drive to an additional hard drive i added in Bay 4?

Always want to keep the boot drive with more free space than may seem necessary for performance and to function at its best, 30-40% free or even 50% is not excessive.
Ideal is to separate your system from your data.
You should always have bootable backup / clone of your system
Don't use a green drive for system or data though.
When you are done cloning system and/or data, remove the old original and keep as backup.
Then move the system drive to #1 - no matter what you want to reset the default boot volume to where the system is.
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.1
http://www.bombich.com/software/updates/ccc-3.5.html
How to clone your system:
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120711_2-MacPro-internal-clone-ba ckup.html
How to relocate system and user data to another drive:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4337
By staying with 10.5.8 you are not going to receive security updates, might want to consider 10.6.8.

How to add and configure an additional hard drive.

I will like to know how to install and configure an additional hard drive. I will like to know how to configure the server so the services will start using this additional space. Intel based Xserver. late 2009.
Erik.

Your question is a little vague... "services will start using this additional space..."?
Let's see, where to start.
You don't say how many drives you currently have in your server. If all three drive bays are used then you'll probably need some kind of external array. There are many to choose from.
If you have a spare bay (or two) then you can buy a new drive bay (ADM - Apple Drive Module) (several online vendors still sell them), but you can't just put a bare drive into an empty bay since the blank trays lack the electrical connectors to support a drive.
Once you work out your drive options (internal vs. external, capacity, etc.) you can work out a plan to use them.
The specifics of that will depend on what services you're using. Are you web serving? file serving? home directory serving? or maybe mail? database? something else.
In general, once a drive is attached and initialized (via Disk Utility.app) it's up to you to configure the individual server components to use the space. That typically involves changing some kind of configuration parameter (e.g. httpd.conf for apache, /etc/my.cnf for MySQL, or various options in Server.app for other services) to tell them to use the new volume.
If you want to migrate the entire server to the new drive (e.g. the new drive is larger/faster) then you can clone your existing OS drive to the new drive and just reboot.
So, you see, there are many ways to do this. Everyone's situation will be a little different.

HT1229 How do I back up my entire iPhoto library to an additional hard drive. I have a WD 1TB hard drive which I would like to use as a backup drive to my MacBook Pro. What steps do I take to do this. Thank you

How do I back up myentire iPhoto library to an an additional hard drive, I have a WD My Book 1TB hooked up to my MacBook Pro via USB 2 port.

Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Most Simple Back Up:
Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
Slightly more complex: Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically.
Example of such apps: Chronosync - but there are many others. Search on MacUpdate or the App Store

HT1338 Can I split the 3T hard drive to include windows 7 partition?

Can I split the 3T hard drive on a new MAC desktop to allow a partition for windows 7?

http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

How to add additional hard drive?

How do I add an additional hard drive to my MACMINI? I would like to put a 2nd drive in the MACMINI, or perhaps add additional space to the drive inside? Is there a way to hack the old drive inside to make it bigger?
Thanks!
Capitan

You can not add a second internal drive due to physical space constraints but the mini's hard disk is replaceable. The type of drive you will require is dependent on your type of mini, G4 or Intel. Both require laptop drives but the G4 has the common PATA while the Intel uses a SATA drive.
The easiest solution is an external Firewire drive. There are some very nice ones available which are designed to sit beneath the mini and are finished in a similar style. Most also have built in Firewire and USB hubs to add additional ports to the system. My local Apple store actually has one attached to the display model. You can even put your operating system on an external drive and boot from that if you wish. It has been suggested in this forum that a 7200 rpm drive over Firewire can give perceivable speed improvement on a G4 (due to the internal 5400 rpm drive), but I have no experience with doing so.
Hope that helps,
Jason.

DV9310us/ additional hard drive

I have a Hitachi Travelstar5K320. Will it fit in my additional hard drive bay. Are the connectors the same.
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I have a Hitachi Travelstar5K320. Will it fit in my additional hard drive bay. Are the connectors the same.
Hi,
The connectors in the laptop are SATA and the hard drive is SATA II. However, your laptop supports only up to 160GB 5400rpm hard drives or a 200GB 4200rpm one.. Higher capacity drives than those mentioned may not work..
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Additional hard drive

I added a additional hard drive (seagate) to my macbook pro. With the hardwrk kit I removed the optical drive and build in the old HDD. My System now boots from the new SSHD. Is it possible to format the original HDD?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Of course. If you have everything you need on the SSHD, you can format the old hard drive. To do it, you can use Disk Utility, which you can find in /Applications/Utilities, and you have to follow these steps > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html
After formatting it (I recommend you to format it in "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as Format), you can use it to store other files that does not fit in the SSHD or for whatever you want

Installed additional hard drive, previous one is not recognized.

I have a G4 867 MDD using 4 internal hard drives. In the ATA100 bay, I had a Seagate which was my main System drive. I just bought a larger drive intended to become my system drive, so I moved the Seagate to the outer slave position. I changed the jumpers accordingly.
Problem is the computer now doesn't see my Seagate as a startup option, and will only boot into OS 9.2.2. First message is that the disk is unreadable, do I wan't to initialize? No! However, in this message, it does correctly see the drive as a 149 Gig drive. When I booted into OS X from an external drive, the profiler did see the Seagate but said it only was a 31 Gig drive, when in fact 149 is accurate. However it did not and does not mount on the desktop. Seagate is barely a year old, so I don't suspect drive failure. It worked perfectly before this.
I rechecked everything to make sure the cables were secure, etc. A year or so ago I had done the same kind of switching over when I bought the Seagate, but that time all was fine and when I booted, it defaulted to the old system, which is what should be happening now.
I need some help here, thanks!

Hi, opto -
...the profiler did see the Seagate but said it only was a 31 Gig drive...
Recheck the jumpers on that drive carefully. Some drives came with an additional jumper and position, which limited the effective capacity of the drive to 32GB (because some PC processors could not address a drive size larger than that).
...so I moved the Seagate to the outer slave position. I changed the jumpers accordingly.
It's not necessary to change the jumpers. With two drives on an ATA bus, it makes no difference to the Mac which is Master and which is Slave, nor which is connected to what connector. See the last paragraph of -
Article #24342 - Power Macintosh G3 and G4: IDE Master and Slave Support and Configuration
G4 MDD models can use the Cable Select jumper settings. You might experiment with setting the drives that way.

Additional Hard Drive in MAC PRO

I just bought my MAC PRO and wanted to know if anyone has any advice on where I can buy an additional 500 GIG internal hard drive for the machine?
If you have bought one, and have the URL to the item you bought, it would be a huge help.
Thanks.

For a 500GB drive you have
serveral options available to you with differing
benefits. For all round performance I would go with a
Maxtor MaXLine Pro. For quietness and low power usage
with an excellent performance I would otherwise go
with a Western Digital RE2. Both these drives come
with a 5 year warranty and are enterprise (server)
class drives.
PS Good one William… NewEgg is another popular
reseller.
Ned,
Was gonna suggest those... But I did not! Great choices and not much more. For some reason the WD drives are quieter to me...
Thanks!
William

No icon on desktop after installing additional hard drive

Hi guys, I have installed a new additional hard disk. Jumped the old original as 0 Master and the new one as Cable select. If I check the About this Mac window, the new volume shows the new hard disk with its volume but I don't see an icon for new hard disk on the desktop. Does it mean that I don't have it properly installed ?

welcome to macbook forum,
which mac that you install that hard drive too, because macbook using sata and you don't need to configure that jumper in macbook.
If you install that on desktop mac, and use the same cable, you should set both into cable select and your mac will register that based from the distance from the cable, the nearest is the first HD and the furthest one is the second.
also after that, you can open disk utility and eras / initialize the new HD.
Good Luck.

Can I install an additional hard drive to my Macbook Pro? (2 Hard drives)

I was wondering whether I could install a second hard drive to my 2011 Macbook Pro (2.0 GHz, 500GB HD 4GB Ram) making a total 1TB hard drive space?

There are third party solutions out there, however be warned they will most likely void any current warranty - as it involves removing your optical drive. I don't have details on them myself, but when my apple care expires I might consider that on a Late 09 model and push it to dual SSD's

How do i use additional hard drives for application installation

I have close to a terabyte of drives on my new mac pro and would love to use one of the other hard drives to install applications on- especially my windows applications- like solidworks. However every time i try to install something to my mac it wont give me a choice of where to put it. Same is true under parallels- so I keep on filling up my mac HD and the other 3/4 of a terabyte is unused!!!
I called apple care and they said that Apple doesnt recommend using other disks- where did they find him?
How do i use the other disks to install programs?
Richard

Richard:
Without repeating what eww has already expressed, it seems, in the first place, you need to give yourself adjust yourself to how Mac OS works, since by your own admission, you are new to Macs. When I use a PC, as I have to from time to time, I always wish that it worked as my Mac does. Of course, I just have to figure how to work with what I see as its limitations to get the job done. The learning curve gets less steep as we move along in the process.
Your work pattern and needs seem to be quite different from most mac users I know. This is neither good or bad, but it does mean that your needs are specialized. You seem to work with especially large files, for example. So your installed volume becomes crowded more quickly that most of the rest of us. However, eww's suggestion that you put some or all of your data on another HDD works for others in the same way, although in different situations. For example, some people with older macs can only install OS X on a partition of less than 8 GB, as they work with a limitation where they have to install OS X on the first 8 GB of the HDD. Thus they have to have most of their data on a separate partition.
You noted, +I have looked through mac HD and havent found " data" i can move any where yet+. May I suggest that you move your entire Documents folder to another drive, since that is where all your data would normally be stored. Another option would be to get a larger HDD. I don't know how large your present HDD is, but you can max out the size of your internal HDD. Or you can keep your working documents on your internal HDD and move the rest for storage on an external HDD. You know best what will work for you. What I am trying to say is that you have options, and I feel sure that you will get it figured out.
Cheers.
cornelius

Can I add an additional hard drive to my time capsule?

Can I add an aditional hard drive to my time capsule if the time capsule is near capacity?
If the Time Capsule is near capacity, will it stop backing up?

Can I add an aditional hard drive to my time capsule if the time capsule is near capacity?
Yes
If the Time Capsule is near capacity, will it stop backing up?
No, Time Machine will automatically start to delete the oldest backups to make room for new backups.

Can I make an additional hard drive partition with a boot camp partition on my mac?

Hi.
I have installed boot camp and now I want another partition for a second install of Mavericks. Can I make another partition for this without messing up Windows 8.1?

Is it dangerous to use an external HD to boot from? The guy at Circuit City told me it was.
One danger of using an external hard drive as a boot drive, is the connection is not as reliable as an internal hard drive. The other is the mistaken assumption that just because it is separate, or not part of the computer, that it is safe. The only true safety comes in numbers. You should always backup your data*:
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2.5" hard drives are a little less reliable than 3.5" hard drives because of the smaller parts involved. Mac Minis have 2.5" hard drives, whereas other desktop Macs have 3.5" hard drives. Whether the reliability of Firewire or USB over SATA or Parallel ATA on 2.5" is enough to offset this difference is hard to say. Having enough backups ensures you don't have to be surprised when you find out in your situation.
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Split x2 additional hard drive

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