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I have a 20" iMac G5 and I love the computer but my hard drive is full and it is a little slow lately. I plan on upgrading the HD with a WD 640GB hard drive up from the 250GB HD I have now unless there is a better option out there.
Here is what I plan on getting: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=551 Now my problem is how can I get all of the data off of my current hard drive without having to buy an external HD just to transfer everything to? Last edited by Fullthrottledesigns : 2009-07-22 at 07:41. Reason: Snow Leopard is Intel only!!!! |
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Why not just get an external anyway? You have a desktop so portability shouldn't be an issue.
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Well, you could always buy a HDD enclosure (without a drive installed), put the new drive into it, and transfer the data from the old drive while it's still installed in the iMac. You can then test the new drive by booting from it before you actually perform the drive swap.
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Should I just go with an external drive? I was hoping a new HD with more space would help speed up the computer.
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How much RAM do you have in the computer? RAM upgrade would speed it up depending on what you do.
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I am maxed on Ram with 4GB
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Just a random thought: how easy is it to replace a HDD in iMacs?
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I found a tutorial and it looks pretty easy you just need a few small screwdrivers and that's about it.
link: http://www.ehow.com/how_4969125_repl...ve-imac-g.html |
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What are you doing on the iMac that you require more speed?
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General responsiveness? He mentioned that the HDD is getting full and the system is getting sluggish. A full HDD will do that, between filesystem fragmentation and, if he doesn't have much RAM, lack of contiguous space for the swapfile (which goes back to point #1).
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Actually all the more reason to get an external drive case as well. Use the external drive as your scratch disk. You'll notice a boost by having a clean drive as well as being able to write files to both drives at once instead of the single, internal drive.
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Well there you go. No Scratch Disk space = sluggish.
Personally I'd go with an external FireWire HD. You can find a TB w/enclosure (full-sized) for under 100 bucks these days. Use that as your Scratch Disk and/or project files and you'll free up a little breathing room on your iMac. [edit]; Beaten! So it goes. |
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Thanks, do you recommend any particular external drive??
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It used to be anything with an Oxford chipset was better, but I have no idea if that's still the case or not. Been a while since I've purchased one.
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