On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On May 28, 4:31 pm, Thunder 1 <[email protected]> wrote: >> Greetings All. >> >> I want to invest in an external hard drive, and I need some advice >> from the great gurus here. Here's what I have, as far as my >> hardware goes: >> >> iMac 2.4GHz Intel Core Duo, 298GB HD, running OS 10.5.7. >> Has both FireWire 400 and 800 plus USB. >> >> iMac 350MHz Blueberry, 6GB HD, running OS 9.2.2. >> USB 1 only. >> >> iMac 333MHz Blueberry, 6GB HD, running OS 9.1 >> USB 1 only. >> >> Titanium Powerbook, 10GB, running OS 10.4.11 >> FireWire 400 and USB. >> >> Here is what I would like to do: >> >> I would like to be able to back up all these computers to a >> single external hard drive. I'm looking at an external drive >> that gives me around 500GB or so of storage space. I haven't >> decided on a brand yet, but I'm leaning towards Seagate, but >> will consider others. >> >> Also, I would like to make all these back-ups bootable for >> each machine. >> > [snip] > > I'm not the one who can give a fully authoritative answer to this > question, but keep in mind several things: > > 1) OS 10.5.6 and up require a different disk partition scheme for > bootability > 2) OS 9.x must be installed first as a part of the OS X installation > scheme, and 10.5.x doesn't support this > 3) Bootability is best done via Firewire, which some of the systems > mentioned above do not have > 4) Booting via USB can be done, if you know what you're doing, but via > USB 1.1 you will not be happy with the result (if you can at all) > > In summary, plan to use a separate drive for each class of system; it > will lead to many fewer difficulties in the long run.
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