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Hey there everybody.
This is my first Mac (that i bought off of eBay around Feb (the iMac has Apple Care until September 2011)), and I am running low on space. With fathers day coming up I want an idea of what to request from the Mrs.
YOu see all of my specs below/beside here.. the only thing not mentioned is that I back up to a 1TB Seagate external using TM.
I included shots of my HDD and External to show the space left.
I am a normal person, this iMac is not used for work. Purely play. So the data that is occupying my HDD is dl'ed music, pictures, dl'ed movies, and some documents.
This iMac was a good deal on eBay, and money was an issue then so I wasn't pumped about paying A LOT more than what I did for a bigger internal HDD. As for the data on the drive increasing; the pictures will most likely keep growing, music is going to increase the fastest, and movies can be discarded as I get done consuming them. But I also want to avoid common mistake of not leaving ~30GB for OSX to function properly (i read that on the forums a lot).
So what should I do? Get a larger external drive? Have my ancillary materials (music/movies maybe pictures) get saved to the external INSTEAD of the HDD (how)? Just use my HDD for OSX and Apps?
Since I still have applecare I am not really cool with (or able to) put a SSD in this great piece of machinery. Down the road, maybe, but not now.
I am aware of Partitioning, is that something that could be useful to me? I think yes. Especially if I get a larger external (2 or 3 TB), and somehow make X% of the new drive an extension of my HDD. THen the remainder be used as the back up.
Or is that possible now? Partition my 1TB into 250GB/750GB or something along those lines, and do what i just mentioned above.
Any thoughts/corrections are welcome. Thanks
This is my first Mac (that i bought off of eBay around Feb (the iMac has Apple Care until September 2011)), and I am running low on space. With fathers day coming up I want an idea of what to request from the Mrs.
YOu see all of my specs below/beside here.. the only thing not mentioned is that I back up to a 1TB Seagate external using TM.
I included shots of my HDD and External to show the space left.
I am a normal person, this iMac is not used for work. Purely play. So the data that is occupying my HDD is dl'ed music, pictures, dl'ed movies, and some documents.
This iMac was a good deal on eBay, and money was an issue then so I wasn't pumped about paying A LOT more than what I did for a bigger internal HDD. As for the data on the drive increasing; the pictures will most likely keep growing, music is going to increase the fastest, and movies can be discarded as I get done consuming them. But I also want to avoid common mistake of not leaving ~30GB for OSX to function properly (i read that on the forums a lot).
So what should I do? Get a larger external drive? Have my ancillary materials (music/movies maybe pictures) get saved to the external INSTEAD of the HDD (how)? Just use my HDD for OSX and Apps?
Since I still have applecare I am not really cool with (or able to) put a SSD in this great piece of machinery. Down the road, maybe, but not now.
I am aware of Partitioning, is that something that could be useful to me? I think yes. Especially if I get a larger external (2 or 3 TB), and somehow make X% of the new drive an extension of my HDD. THen the remainder be used as the back up.
Or is that possible now? Partition my 1TB into 250GB/750GB or something along those lines, and do what i just mentioned above.
Any thoughts/corrections are welcome. Thanks