I’m planning to purchase a one terabyte Western Digital My Book Essential external hard drive. I want to migrate my Time Machine backups for both my iMac and MacBook Pro to a larger capacity drive. The problem I have is both Time Machine backups are in two separate drives. I didn’t know whether moving a [...]
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Western Digital has introduced their new My Book Studio desktop external drives with e-label displays which can show information about the contents of the drives even without being plugged. The new My Book Studio drives are equipped with FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 interfaces and are compatible with Mac OS X‘s TimeMachine backup application. The [...]
Backup vs Clone
Oct 27
With the attention Time Machine is getting from all the reviews of Leopard, you might have encounter the terms “backup” and “cloning”. Just what is the difference between backing up and cloning? The Mac Observer’s Jeff Gamet explains: When you clone a hard drive, you are making an exact duplicate. Since this new duplicate is [...]
A Mac is an investment. Desktop and portable Macs cost a little more than the equivalent desktop PC clone or a laptop made in China or Taiwan (then again, what laptop isn’t made in China or Taiwan?). As Mac users, the added cost that we pay for our machines mean that we expect a quality [...]
