David J Brooks wrote:
Good ideas Igor. I have always used Seagate HDD's but never really
looked at reviews. I'll do that
iMac is USB 2
You can get Thunderbolt to USB 3 adapters for prices that are merely
rapacious, unlike the obscenely rapacious costs of thunderbolt drives.
Something like this can be handy for backups, unfortunately, my EZ-Dock2
tends to cause disks to unmount when they haven't been accessed for a
bit, and remounting really hits performance, so it's not a good solution
for always on external storage.
Just wondering now if i should copy them to my HD then to the new
external that way they will be on my time machine drive aswell (ie 2
drives). I have alwasys in the past had two externals hooked up to the
computer, plus i will still have the CD/DVD's
How big is your Time Machine drive?
For that matter, how many GB or TB of raw files do you have that you
need to back up?
As to other questions, you should be able to go 6-8 TB on your system.
Also, I'm not sure which would apply to yours, this is also an option:
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2308+Hard+Drive+Replacement/1766
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2428+Hard+Drive+Replacement/5954
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/iMac-Intel-21-5-Inch-Mid-2011-Dual-Hard-Drive-Kit/IF173-002-1
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