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OccamMD
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Hey, first post so please bear with my ignorance. I bought my wife a PB about a year ago and we have been pretty happy with it, but the 80GB is really small for doing iMovie, and she loves this, and the new camera, Canon 20D, eats up space as well. I talked with apple and they will not upgrade the drive. Questions are:
1) Is it possible to do this myself with the PB, or is their some inherent hardware limitation?
2) If possible, I still have 18 months on the warrantly so should I wait to do it?
3) If I wait, I have a 250GB Buffalo LAN drive on the home network, should I convert this to the Apple only or get a firewire drive?
4) If firewire or USB2, what is the difference in transfer speeds?
5) Can I use Final Cut Express HD, which we just got, from an external drive without much issue?
I have a bunch of questions, but I've been happy enough with the PB to talk my Mom into getting one, she just bought it, and I'm converting over the home network to an Apple server sometime soon. My only disappointment was that I would like to use ROKU players around the house and they don't support the AAC (sp?) iTunes coding scheme which screws me up a bit.
Also, I can hear the cooling fan in the top left side of the PB now, like it is going out of balance. Is this a real issue, or should I let it go? I have the warranty, will they fix it?
1) Is it possible to do this myself with the PB, or is their some inherent hardware limitation?
2) If possible, I still have 18 months on the warrantly so should I wait to do it?
3) If I wait, I have a 250GB Buffalo LAN drive on the home network, should I convert this to the Apple only or get a firewire drive?
4) If firewire or USB2, what is the difference in transfer speeds?
5) Can I use Final Cut Express HD, which we just got, from an external drive without much issue?
I have a bunch of questions, but I've been happy enough with the PB to talk my Mom into getting one, she just bought it, and I'm converting over the home network to an Apple server sometime soon. My only disappointment was that I would like to use ROKU players around the house and they don't support the AAC (sp?) iTunes coding scheme which screws me up a bit.
Also, I can hear the cooling fan in the top left side of the PB now, like it is going out of balance. Is this a real issue, or should I let it go? I have the warranty, will they fix it?