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I just bought a new Macbook Pro. My old Macbook was holding all of my info, including a combined total of 300gb worth of music and videos. I want to put those items (music and video) on a separate hard drive because I don't use them daily. My plan is to have one hard drive for my time machine back ups and one hard drive for my music and videos.
Regarding the external HD with my music and videos: once everything is on there, say I wanted to just put my beatles discography onto my computer from that HD. I hook it up, drag and drop the songs into itunes, and eject the HD. My two questions are: will the music still be on the hard drive, or did it go from the hard drive to my computer? Secondly, is that safe for the HD? I was told today by someone at the apple store that things arent meant to be deleted from external hard drives and it can be damaging to the drive. I have no idea if this is an accurate statement, seeing as one person at the store will tell you one thing, and the other one will completely contradict that statement.
Regarding the external HD with my music and videos: once everything is on there, say I wanted to just put my beatles discography onto my computer from that HD. I hook it up, drag and drop the songs into itunes, and eject the HD. My two questions are: will the music still be on the hard drive, or did it go from the hard drive to my computer? Secondly, is that safe for the HD? I was told today by someone at the apple store that things arent meant to be deleted from external hard drives and it can be damaging to the drive. I have no idea if this is an accurate statement, seeing as one person at the store will tell you one thing, and the other one will completely contradict that statement.