I just got a new mac pro (had a pre-intel iMac) and want to set it up correctly as much as able.
In addition to work needs, I do alot of digital photography (but dont make a living doing it) nevertheless the data is still important to me. Given that, and based on everything I've read from numerous posts and sites, I'm completely confused as to whether I should:
Set up a RAID with a good backup plan, or not worry about that and just have a good backup strategy alone?
Other questions:
-keep the stock drive as the boot drive only?
-set up the "initial" account as an Admin and not do anything to it (vs. just making any separate account an Admin)
-need windows - and have purchased Fusion, is best to put that on a partition on the boot drive (wont be intensive windows use, just to log into servers for work) I do want to be able to use the two os's at the same time.
any other advice on setting the new machine up properly from the start is appreciated!
In addition to work needs, I do alot of digital photography (but dont make a living doing it) nevertheless the data is still important to me. Given that, and based on everything I've read from numerous posts and sites, I'm completely confused as to whether I should:
Set up a RAID with a good backup plan, or not worry about that and just have a good backup strategy alone?
Other questions:
-keep the stock drive as the boot drive only?
-set up the "initial" account as an Admin and not do anything to it (vs. just making any separate account an Admin)
-need windows - and have purchased Fusion, is best to put that on a partition on the boot drive (wont be intensive windows use, just to log into servers for work) I do want to be able to use the two os's at the same time.
any other advice on setting the new machine up properly from the start is appreciated!