internal Hard drive

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Hi all,

I have just purchased a 2TB INTERNAL hard drive my main drive is 320GB so I need more space.

I guess my mac pro is 4 years old Quad core 800MHZ with 10gb of ram.

Recently it has really started to slow down. I use my computer primarily for music/3d animation which takes up a lot of room.

I have just over 10% of space left.

My question is:

should I start using my new hard drive as my main drive as its pretty old and can I?

or do I have to use the main drive that came with the computer?

also is it difficult to install windows on my mac

I am worried it might mess up my computer.

Mac Pro 2.8 Quad Core, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 10gb ram

Posted on Nov 7, 2012 12:10 PM

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Answer 1

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leave the old drive as is as backup and emergency

buy a new boot drive - 128GB or 250GB SSD or 10K WD are nice

move all the media libraries to 2TB Black or Enterprise drive

Never let a drive get full and 10% free is overly full

put Windows on its own hard drive too to make life easy.

Clone your system to new drive

having everything on one drive gets sluggish and clogged with too many I/O requests.

When fyou are backed up, when you have new clone (CCC) of your system and drives, you might use the old drive for Windows.

I'd like to see system / windows / 2x2TB for audio and media and documents - and external backups for CCC and TimeMachine.

You can put drives in lower optical drive bay.

Add more RAM though it gets costly beyond 8x2GB

ATI 5770 makes a good addition if you have not (reqs 10.6.5+)

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Answer 2

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I have another 1 TB internal and a 1tb External which are acting as 2 back ups and older data from older computers.

What I use the SSD drive for?

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