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Moving "HOME" Folder contents to External Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="CPLOP" data-source="post: 1517886" data-attributes="member: 302929"><p>Hello Karen, </p><p></p><p>Thanks for finding my post useful. I spent some time hunting down that diskmount command. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>1. The speed of the external disk <em>may</em> be a variable when considering data transfers, retrieval, etc...There are faster drives but I am considering price, quality and performance at the same time, so I am likely to sacrifice something. I am not sure how the portable will work with your mac, but a few years back I had the same setup on a windows notebook a and a portable external, and it actually worked great.</p><p></p><p>2. There are a lot of drive enclosures without fans. This was a personal choice because I had an external hard drive come to a grinding halt and it always ran hot (Seagate of course). I really do not want that to happen again, so I took the extra caution and purchased an enclosure with a fan. The fan may not make that big of a difference but the case is always cool. The enclosure was actually cheap at $24. It seems to be constructed well. We will see how long it lasts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CPLOP, post: 1517886, member: 302929"] Hello Karen, Thanks for finding my post useful. I spent some time hunting down that diskmount command. :) 1. The speed of the external disk [I]may[/I] be a variable when considering data transfers, retrieval, etc...There are faster drives but I am considering price, quality and performance at the same time, so I am likely to sacrifice something. I am not sure how the portable will work with your mac, but a few years back I had the same setup on a windows notebook a and a portable external, and it actually worked great. 2. There are a lot of drive enclosures without fans. This was a personal choice because I had an external hard drive come to a grinding halt and it always ran hot (Seagate of course). I really do not want that to happen again, so I took the extra caution and purchased an enclosure with a fan. The fan may not make that big of a difference but the case is always cool. The enclosure was actually cheap at $24. It seems to be constructed well. We will see how long it lasts. [/QUOTE]
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