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Apple Computing Products:
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newb questions regarding adding a HD…can someone please translate into simple terms
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<blockquote data-quote="MacHeadCase" data-source="post: 311390"><p>Hi Brice0501! I don't have all the answers but here are those that I do have.</p><p></p><p>Yes you will be able to drag and drop to your backup hard drive. Seagtes are top notch and they are the only company that have their hard drives backed up with a 5 year warranty.</p><p></p><p>They might not be the cheapest around, but Other World Computing are great, I used them to buy RAM for an old grape iMac I had way back when and I do not hesitate to recommend them. They are efficient, helpful and very nice to deal with.</p><p></p><p>Here is what they have to offer in terms of internal hard drives specifically for the <a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/sata/mac-pro" target="_blank"><strong>Mac Pro</strong></a>.</p><p></p><p>As for hassle free backups, why not use <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html" target="_blank"><strong>SuperDuper!</strong></a>: it was in a comparison test with three or four other backup utilities for Mac OS X Tiger and it came up on top with having the most accuracy and fewer <em>dropped</em> files in the resulting backup. Plus you can make the backup bootable if anything should happen to your usual hard drive.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps a bit. :girl:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacHeadCase, post: 311390"] Hi Brice0501! I don't have all the answers but here are those that I do have. Yes you will be able to drag and drop to your backup hard drive. Seagtes are top notch and they are the only company that have their hard drives backed up with a 5 year warranty. They might not be the cheapest around, but Other World Computing are great, I used them to buy RAM for an old grape iMac I had way back when and I do not hesitate to recommend them. They are efficient, helpful and very nice to deal with. Here is what they have to offer in terms of internal hard drives specifically for the [URL="http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/sata/mac-pro"][B]Mac Pro[/B][/URL]. As for hassle free backups, why not use [URL="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html"][B]SuperDuper![/B][/URL]: it was in a comparison test with three or four other backup utilities for Mac OS X Tiger and it came up on top with having the most accuracy and fewer [I]dropped[/I] files in the resulting backup. Plus you can make the backup bootable if anything should happen to your usual hard drive. Hope this helps a bit. :girl: [/QUOTE]
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