I just got my new iMac back from the Apple store last night following their transfer of data from my PC, so I guess I'm officially a Mac user now!
I briefly played around with the computer and have a couple of questions about the hard drive.
First, although the drive is not what I would call noisy, I can definitely hear it "crunching" when I open a program and when the computer is accessing it to read/write. Is it reasonable to expect that the drive be completely silent? I don't hear any hard drive sound from my PC, but then the fans are making so much noise compared to the Apple that I might not hear it even if there is some sound. My one concern is that I will be using the computer at times to record audio and if a mic is sensitive I suppose it could pick up hard drive noise.
My other question has to do with data and drive space. The iMac has a 2 TB hard drive. When I brought it to the Apple store it said it had 1.99 TB free. I had maybe 350 GB of data to transfer and when I got the computer back it now reads 1.35 TB free. The math doesn't add up. Does anyone have an idea why I might now be missing 250-300 GB of space?
Thanks.
I briefly played around with the computer and have a couple of questions about the hard drive.
First, although the drive is not what I would call noisy, I can definitely hear it "crunching" when I open a program and when the computer is accessing it to read/write. Is it reasonable to expect that the drive be completely silent? I don't hear any hard drive sound from my PC, but then the fans are making so much noise compared to the Apple that I might not hear it even if there is some sound. My one concern is that I will be using the computer at times to record audio and if a mic is sensitive I suppose it could pick up hard drive noise.
My other question has to do with data and drive space. The iMac has a 2 TB hard drive. When I brought it to the Apple store it said it had 1.99 TB free. I had maybe 350 GB of data to transfer and when I got the computer back it now reads 1.35 TB free. The math doesn't add up. Does anyone have an idea why I might now be missing 250-300 GB of space?
Thanks.