Mac Pro :: Hard Drives Larger Than 1 TB?

Jun 1, 2008

I would have thought, given the pace of innovation, that we might have had hard drives larger than 1 TB by now. Has anyone heard of any potential rumors?

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MacBook Pro :: Swapping Hard Drives Larger Then 500GB

Jan 12, 2011

I have a older mac mini and a 6 month old macbook pro, the mini's hard drive is full, can I take the one from the mbp, wipe it, and put it in the mini and get a larger one for the mbp? If so are there any recommendations for a HD larger then 500GB for my mbp?

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Intel Mac :: Recommendations For Larger (3TB Or 4TB) Replacement Hard Drives For It?

May 19, 2012

I have an older iMac (20" Mid-2007, 2.4GHZ Core 2 Duo), and I'm running out of hard drive space on the internal HD. I'd rather replace the HD than whole computer (and external hard drives are a pain because I have not managed to get Time Machine to back them up properly). any recommendations of larger (i.e., 3TB or 4TB) hard drives that will work well as a replacement *internal* drive for this iMac? 

Info:
Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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Software :: Upgrading Hard Drive To Larger Drive / Cmpletely Cloning The Drives?

May 16, 2009

I have a Mac Book Pro core duo with a partition running windowsXP pro. The hard drive is almost completely full. I want to replace the drive with a larger drive and clone the current drive. Is there a way to completely clone the drive complete with the partition, boot camp, windows etc? I'm running mac os 10.4.11

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Mac Pro :: Possible To Migrate RAID To Larger Drives?

Apr 2, 2009

I'm about to configure my 2006 MP with one of Apple's RAID cards using RAID5. I currently have 4x 750GB drives that I can use, but I can see needing more space in the not too distant future. When I do need more space, can I simply drop in a 2TB drive, let the RAID system reconfigure itself, and repeat this until I have all 4 drives in place? Is there a better or different way to do this? I know that if one of the drives is larger than the others, then only a drive space equivalent to the smaller drives will be used in RAID5. After addition of the fourth drive (per the above scheme), will the array then use the full 2TB of each drive?

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MacBook Pro :: Where Are The Larger Faster WD Drives

Feb 11, 2010

Where are the larger faster WD drives? The 1TB 5200rpm drive has been out for several months, in the garbage MyPassport configuration. What is the holdup to releasing these as bare drives? Also, isn't there supposed to be a WD 640gb 7200rpm drive? It seem like 2.5" drive tech and/or distribution is really lagging.

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Applications :: How Do I Combine Two Smaller Drives Into A Single Larger Virtual Time Machine Drive?

Jul 20, 2010

My MBP has a 320GB harddrive with like 240GB used on it but I only have two 250 GB harddrives so you can see the problem I'm in. I would like to combine into a single virtual drive so that it can accommodate my Time Machine backups.

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OS X :: Are Solid-state Drives Faster Than Hard Disk Drives?

Sep 13, 2009

I'm looking at the specs page for the MacBook Pro and it reads this...

Your MacBook Pro comes standard with a 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive. Choose a hard drive with a faster speed for greater performance. Or you can choose a solid-state drive that offers enhanced durability.

Basically suggesting that the HDD option has a performance advantage over the SSD, but is this the case? I always thought SSDs could read & write quicker because they use solid-state flash memory as opposed to hard disks.

I want to go with the 256GB SSD but I want to know how it ranks in speed.

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Intel Mac :: Can Fit A Larger Hard Drive

Apr 9, 2012

I have an early-2008 iMac with 2.66GHz processor, 4 Gig RAM and a 500Gig Hard Drive. Can I increase Hard Drive size in any way?  I also have a 500Gig Time Capsule for my backups..

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iMac (20-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook Pro :: Upgrade To A Much Larger Hard Drive?

Apr 20, 2012

I plan to upgrade my hard drive from 320 gb to 750 gb. I have a macbook pro 13 inch laptop which I purchased last October. Can I just do a fresh install of osx lion on the new hard drive? Do you guys recommend hard drives from Western Digital or Samsung?

Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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Power Mac G5 :: Upgrading Hard Drive To Larger Size?

Dec 15, 2007

I have a power mac G5 2.7 that is 2.5 years old. It came configured with two 400GB drives inside as it will only hold two. I now really want to change them out to either two 750 GB or preferably two 1TB drives. Apple, however, has told me it won't work and that my unit will not handle this huge additional power consumption. I have called mac mall and they say no way as well. OWC says they have many working like that and its never been a problem. Then I called Apple again and they said it will work fine. I have 6 more months of Apple care, but either way do not want to blow the interior of this system up. I know I need SATA drives and would ideally like to purchase the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.

Information:
Powermac G5
Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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Laptops :: Installing Larger Hard Drive In MacBook Pro?

May 16, 2008

I have purchase a new hard drive for my MacBook Pro Intel 2 Core duo and know how to do it, but once it is installed in the machine, I want to know how to install the operating system. The computer now is almost empty (only a few photos I have backed up) so there is no need to transfer any data. Do I just use the discs that came with it? Please tell me how I restore the system with this new hard drive.

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MacBook :: Replaced Hard Drive With A Larger - Can't Load OS?

Jul 22, 2009

iBook, G4 12", 1.2 GHz

This old unit needed a bigger hard drive, so a friend gave me a Hitachi 60 GB drive he didn't need and I installed it. He told me that it was formatted for MS-DOS and that I would need to reformat it for Mac OS. I'm pretty sure that I did accomplish that using Disk Utilities in the Installer program.

I put a OS 10.4 install disk in and tried to boot from it. My problem is I'm getting a screen alert that says, "This software cannot be loaded on this computer." I can either restart (what good is that?) or go to "Startup Disk" where I choose the install disk (or Network Startup) and click on Restart. Then I choose English as the main language and bang! - right back to the wonderful, "This software cannot be loaded on this computer."

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OS X :: Time Machine Restoration To Larger Hard Drive

Apr 9, 2010

What I want to do is back up my current Mac mini (160GB hdd) with Time Machine. I then want to upgrade the system drive in the Mac mini to a 320 GB drive and restore from the Time Machine backup with all my programs, settings and files. Will it work even if the back up and restoration drive sizes are different?

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MacBook Pro :: Compatibility Of Larger Hard Drive With System?

Jun 29, 2010

I'm thinking about getting a bigger internal HD for my 15 inch macbook pro. Currently 250GB, want 750gb. I have Macbook Pro 15 inch unibody A1286. Will it fit? And will there be more heat coming from a larger drive? If so is it advisable to avoid a larger drive because of heat issues?

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MacBook :: Unable To Copy Video Larger Than 4gb / Hard Drive Not Allowing

Sep 14, 2010

I'm trying to put a 10gb sized video onto my hard drive but it won't allow me. I don't want to format it for 2 reasons.

1) i don't have space to back up and

2) the purpose of putting it on the hard drive is so I can watch the video through my blu ray player's usb port.

in disk utility, if i erase and use a volume format other than ms-dos (fat), the blu ray player doesn't pick p on the drive.

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IMac :: Swapping Hard Drives - Transfer Entire Contents Of Old Hard Drive On To New

Jan 25, 2009

I have a Imac 20 with a small 3.5 hard drive and I have bought a bigger 360 gig 3.5 hard drive to replace the old one. I have the new one in an external case with USB 2.0 right now. Is there some way I can transfer the entire contents of the old hard drive on to the new one and then swap out the old drive with the new drive and not miss a beat?

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Hardware :: How To Make 2 Separate Hard Drives Appear As 1 Single Hard Drive?

Sep 5, 2010

I have to hard drives in my powermac. And I am running out of space with the one that has the OS on it.

I want to make the 2 internal hard drives i have appear as one so i can still install and use things that say "must have mac OS installed on this drive to use" or whatever.

i've heard of people using RAID to join them, but i want details on how i could do this.

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Mac Pro :: Two Hard Drives And Two Different OS On One Mac Pro?

Sep 22, 2010

I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable than myself can help me out. I have a 2006 Intel-based Mac Pro:

Processor: Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors

Ram: 6GB (two 512MB) of 667MHz DDR2 ECC fully buffered DIMM

HDD Bay 1: 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s; 7200 rpm; 8MB cache

OSX: Tiger

I need to upgrade to Snow Leopard to be able to use newer Leopard & above only versions of software ie FCP, Aperature, etc.

The issue is that I would like to keep the Tiger OSX as I run Pro Tools LE 7 on it. Upgrading to Snow Leopard would render Pro Tools LE 7 incompatible and I would have to buy it again.

So here's what I'm thinking. I would like to install a secondary HDD in Bay 2 and install Snow Leopard on it.

Is it possible to have OSX Tiger on the HDD in Bay 1 and have OSX Snow Leopard on the HDD Bay 2? Could they each be a different startup to be selected via System Preferences or at bootup? I would only want to run one OS at any given time.

If so what would be a workflow for installing the 2nd HDD and setting it up with OSX Snow Leopard.

Also, compatible hard drives for the 2006 Intel Mac Pros seem to be harder to find now. I called Apple and they no longer sell any compatible internal HDDs.

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Mac Pro :: How Do You Have Your Hard Drives Set Up?

Feb 13, 2009

I'm planning on getting a Mac Pro with multiple hard drives and was thinking about having a main drive for Leopard and documents, one for music, one for video and another for Windows. I was just curious to see how others have theirs set up and any if there is advice to be shared.

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IMac :: How Many Hard Drives Can Fit Into A G5?

Nov 25, 2010

Got imac G5 just want to know two things .

1 - how many hard drives can you fit into a imac g5 or one of the new imacs.

2- if i want to put a bigger hard drive in can i just put a normal sata one in that you would buy for a pc

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Mac Pro :: Additional Hard Drives For Mac Pro?

Jan 17, 2009

Can the Mac Pro take any type of SATA HD or is it restricted to "special" types?

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OS X :: Is There A Difference In Mac/pc Hard Drives

Feb 22, 2009

Looking at Seagate site, even newegg, the hard drives for mac are incredibly more expensive. I doubt the interface is different, so the only other option is how it is formatted.

If the drive is formatted differently, at an extra cost, I am curious if OSX is capable of formatting externals on its own? Can I buy a standard drive and format it natively in OSX?

I only ask, because after coming from Home Premium, several hardware utilities are non-existent.

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Mac Pro :: Hard Drives - Max Size?

May 27, 2009

I have a 320GB hdd, and a 1 TB hdd, what's the "biggest" single hdd you can get? is it 2TB? (internal hdd)

My other question is, can I swap content from the 320 to the 1TB, so the 1TB is the primary hdd?

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OS X :: Swapping Hard Drives Between Two Mac's

Aug 23, 2009

I have a 15" MBP with 256ssd installed and a 13" MBP with a 250gb 5400 drive. I prefer to use the 13" as my main computer and want to take the 256ssd drive from the 15" and put it in the 13". Then take the 250gb drive from the 13" and put it in the 15" How hard is this to do? I've not done something like this before. Since I'm swapping an ssd with a regular hd is it as easy as following the instructions on this forum, remove the screws and swap the drives? After that's done I'll need to overwrite the 15" software and load the OS and drivers for the 13" on to the ssd drive. Is that as simple as taking the restore disk for the 13" put it in the drive and reinstall the OS? Or, should I just take it to the local authorized Apple Dealer and have them do it? (We don't have an Apple store nearby.

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OS X :: Itunes Over 2 Hard Drives?

Oct 7, 2009

When I was on OS Tiger I had all my iTunes content on an external drive to free space on my iMac, content being 224gig on a 300g external HD. I'm now on Snow Leopard and would like to use the Time Machine facility but it says I don't have enough room to carry out.I still have 224g of iTunes on ext and I have 198g available on a 300g Mac HD. Can I split the iTunes content over the two drives i.e music on one and movies on another? If yes, how? Or, to use Time machine effectively should I look at other options?

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OS X :: Hard Drives Locked Themselves And Won't Unlock?

Sep 16, 2010

Our Mac Pro crashed, and upon reboot, both the internal raid as well as the external firewire drive that happened to be plugged into the machine at the time, are both 'locked' and we cannot unlock them. We've tried toggling the 'user and permission' choices from the 'custom' setting that they are now showing to read/write... and it just snaps back to 'custom'!

Same if we try to change to just READ or just WRITE...etc...nothing...

Just a gray icon of a LOCK under the icons of the drives, and a warning anytime I try to access them, saying I don't have permission to do so.

I even unplugged the firewire drive and plugged it into another computer and it does the same thing!
And I even made a new ADMIN and tried changing it with that, to no avail.
Everytime I look at either of these drives, those 'users and permissions' toggles are back at 'custom' and they just won't relent!

Oh, and I also flashed PRam and 'Repaired permissions' on the boot drive [yes, the boot drive is working fine]

I need the media that is on these drive... a ton of video media on the internal raid, specifically... So I can't just repartition them from boot disk.

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MacBook Pro :: Won't Recognize Hard Drives

Oct 5, 2010

I just recently bought a Macbook Pro about 2 weeks ago. Everything's been working great up until today. First I noticed that my MBP wouldn't recognize my phone when I plugged it into the USB. (Its an Android phone - don't bash me for it) I just thought it was my phone at first. A couple hours later I tried transferring some files to my external hard drive (1TB iomega) and my MBP wouldn't recognize it. I plugged in another one of my external HD (320 GB Maxtor), same problem. I then tried my other external HD (500 GB Western Digital), same problem. I tried a different USB port, different cord, rebooting the mac, nothing seems to be working. It will recognize my ipod touch tho. Being that its happening on 4 different devices, I doubt its the devices themselves. Its not the cord because I tried 2 different ones, 3 if you count the one for my phone which uses micro USB.

I am very new to the mac world so other than the things I have tried already, I don't have a clue what to try next. Oh yea, one more thing, all my hard drives are formatted for pc being that I just recently bought my MBP, I had all these hard drives before my mac. And they have all connected fine to my MBP in the past week or so.

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MacBook Pro :: Using Separate Hard Drives For Each OS Possible?

Nov 6, 2010

Anyone knows if you can have exclusively one hard drive to run mac and the other to run windows? I know about changing the cd slot to accommodate another hard drive. So I was just wondering if anyone has any idea whether this would work couldn't find anything concerning this online and can I still have the bootcamp thing where you can choose which os to choose from.

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OS X :: Can't Share Files From My Other Hard Drives

Nov 17, 2010

I'm trying to share a hardrive from my Macpro to my Imac. I have the sharing preferences turned on and have added the volume I want to share to the "shared folder" list. When I try to access it form my Imac I can see my mac pro but when I connect I can't see any folders.

I tried to share a folder from my Mac Pro boot drive and that worked !!!? I don't know why I can't share files from my other hardrives.

By the way I'm using OS 10.5.8 on both computers.

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