Before I go any further, just installed 4 hard drives to Mac Pro 5,1 Lion

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Before I go any further, just installed 4 hard drives to Mac Pro 5,1 Lion

Velociraptor 500 gb, 10,000 rpm in 2nd. drive bay. 1TB black WD in 3rd drive bay, 1TB black in 4th drive bay. 3TB green in external enclosure/back up, not Wired to Mac Pro Yet. I want the velociraptor to be system clone for fast start up and for media files.That needs to be partitioned correct? (dont have Carbon Copy Yet. I clone after formatting correct? One of the Black WD HD internal back up. The other Black HD for Extra media. Green External back up. Should I hold off on the external formatting till the internal 3 hard drives are formatted? Just not sure what to expect when I plug it back in? Thank you

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Posted on Jun 10, 2013 10:13 PM

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kaz-k

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Jun 10, 2013 11:38 PM in response to toltecwarrior

Not sure what you want to do, though as usual one partition is just fine for 500G drive for Carbon Copy. Format it with Disk Utility before making clone drive with Carbon Copy Cloner.

Make sure you must backup the data first.

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Jun 11, 2013 12:13 AM in response to kaz-k

Thanx kaz, even if I'm not partitioning the hard drive still need to be formatted right? I did read that if I want to use bootcamp/ windows not to format That drive, but when I do that I'll just add another hard drive. like I said I'm just not sure what to expect adding so Many drives. Thanx

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kaz-k

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Jun 11, 2013 1:53 AM in response to toltecwarrior

Yes, you must format the drive first. Install drive inside the Mac Pro, then format the drive with Disk Utility.

If you need to have bootcamp capable drive, following tip could help you.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3986?viewlocale=en_US

-- kaz-k

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