Geek Speak Forum?

[FzerozeroT]

I don't want to be the spoilsport here (have rewritten this post 3 times) but this is verging on "how do I rip movies".

A dangerous thing for IT professionals to be discussing on a public, permanent? forum.

Yes, you know who you are. :sly:

[danb]

Oh hang on, you don't like macs, do you?

I seccond that.

[wkid_one]

Firewire actually has a lower transfer rate than USB 2 (400 v 480mbps).
You can get Firewire 800 cards now (800mbps).

Newer macs have it built in, natch.

Oh hang on, you don't like macs, do you?

Yah - like the G5 - and fucked if I am going to pay $3600 for the CPU alone - and then buy the 21" Flat Screen Monitor for another $2500 on top of that!!

(He says sheepishly having a 1394b card in his PC to make updating the iPod quicker and for the hard drive tower- LOL)

I don't 'mind' Mac's - it is just with spending about a gizzlion years playing with PC's - I find them easier. Mac's are an arse to upgrade yourself, parts are diabolical, software to 3 times more expensive, and seldom available through more dubious channels. Interestingly enuf - for a system founded and lauded for its intuitiveness - I find them a pain in the arse to negotiate my way around.

Comestically, really nice machines - they are less resource hungry than PC's etc....however I still don't see the need for them.

As with anything - there is a technology that is quicker - however for the purposes of my post - I am referring to the benchmark or common technology that is most likely in the average PC or source.

Fuck - in an ideal world I would be running to 64bit system etc etc etc etc etc.....actually - thinking about it...I just may

[riffer]

in an ideal world I would be running to 64bit system etc etc etc etc etc.....actually - thinking about it...I just may

Yeah but you're gonna have to go with a *nix system to get anything decent going on it matey :sneaky2:

[wkid_one]

I am running Linux at the mo...fucken hate it.

Meh who cares - I will look at a new mobo in 6 months time - the one I have is only 3 weeks old.

[dss3]

All info appreciated here.

I am looking to update my hard drive, I currently have a 35 GB hard drive. Im looking to get a bigger one. I have seen seagate 80 GB -120GB for around $150-$200. Are these a good brand? Also how do you copy everything from current HD to new one?

As you can probably see I don't know too much about this!!

-Daryl

[Antallica]

Yep, Seagate is the most reputable brand around, Western Digital have a rep for being rather loud, Samsung is good, but usually only for the 3 year warranty which you will no doubt need . I can sell you a HDD if you're interested. Just give me a buzz if I can help ya.

As for copying the data, you can use such utilities as 'Norton Ghost' to clone your old HDD to the new one.

Ants.

[riffer]

As for copying the data, you can use such utilities as 'Norton Ghost' to clone your old HDD to the new one.

Ants.

Correct me if I'm wrong Ants, but won't Ghost only work if you have two partitions of equal size?

[Antallica]

As long as you don't exceed the size of the destination partition with your data you'll be ok.

[wkid_one]

Correct me if I'm wrong Ants,

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Consider yourself corrected!

[riffer]

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Consider yourself corrected!

Very pleased with this answer. SWMBO (an IT manager on sabbatical) had informed me Ghost was useless for copying my old drive onto a new one unless I partitioned it first to make the new drive EXACTLY the same size as the old one, then used Partition Manager to make it a big partition again.

[bungbung]

You have the option with Ghost of modifying your partition(s) size as you copy. As long as your data still fits into the new partition.

E.g. old 10gig with two 5 gig parts
can go into a new 40gig as two 5gigs and leave the free space for later, or expand them into two 20gig parts.

[wkid_one]

Partition Manager

I prefer Partition Magic - much easier.

I don't used Ghost - shit I just delete everything and clean install it, that way I can reset up my partitions, file structures etc.