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Originally Posted by MCSE+I-Turncoat
Gee I was told that Mac’s were a quality product.
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Apple uses the same drives in its Macs as any other manufacturer puts in its PCs. The drives Apple uses are no more or less prone to failure than any other.
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Originally Posted by MCSE+I-Turncoat
So you all are telling me that the hard drives die all the time? I have never lost a hard drive yet on a PC.
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No, they're telling you that its senseless to create a backup to a partition on the same drive because
if the drive fails, you're going to lose your backup and this whole exercise would have been for naught.
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Originally Posted by MCSE+I-Turncoat
So let me ask how long does it take to back up an iMac to an external fire wire hard drive?
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That depends on how much you want to backup and the speed of the drives. Firewire 800 has a theoretical peak speed of 800 Mbps.