The transition from PC to Mac is pretty much a done deal! The last piece was getting another external hard drive to act as the data store for all docs, music, vids, pictures. We have two external hard drives hooked up to the Mac. One is the hard drive for the Mac, and the other is the backup to the root external drive.
The internal hard drive of the Mac stays clean this way. We are using Chronosync as the vehicle to run backups from the root external drive to the backup external drive once a week. Once it is all set up, it is great because there is little to think about as the backups happen as frequently (or infrequently) as you schedule them with the Chronosync SW. I had originally thought of mirroring the drives but then thought a scheduled backup would be better so that in the event of a drive failure, the backup drive would not mirror that data loss!
My overall impressions of the Mac are very positive. The OS seems a lot more stable, and generally much faster (some of that can be attributed to the memory and processor). It is taking a little time to learn how to navigate through Mac-land but I am slowly figuring out where to customize things and just how powerful this OS is.
One of the most impressive things with the Mac is the speed of the Firewire 800!!! I transferred about 120G of data from the Mac to the external drive in about 1 hour! That is just unbelievable. That is part of the reason I wanted the external drive option - there is no loss in speed compared to the internal drive when editing music, pictures, movies, etc.
So far, big thumbs up!!!
The internal hard drive of the Mac stays clean this way. We are using Chronosync as the vehicle to run backups from the root external drive to the backup external drive once a week. Once it is all set up, it is great because there is little to think about as the backups happen as frequently (or infrequently) as you schedule them with the Chronosync SW. I had originally thought of mirroring the drives but then thought a scheduled backup would be better so that in the event of a drive failure, the backup drive would not mirror that data loss!
My overall impressions of the Mac are very positive. The OS seems a lot more stable, and generally much faster (some of that can be attributed to the memory and processor). It is taking a little time to learn how to navigate through Mac-land but I am slowly figuring out where to customize things and just how powerful this OS is.
One of the most impressive things with the Mac is the speed of the Firewire 800!!! I transferred about 120G of data from the Mac to the external drive in about 1 hour! That is just unbelievable. That is part of the reason I wanted the external drive option - there is no loss in speed compared to the internal drive when editing music, pictures, movies, etc.
So far, big thumbs up!!!
Glad you've come over to the dark side.
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