hi Gary As Ronni has pointed out, wouldn't hurt to get a larger drive. Drive pricing is pretty good at the moment for MacPro's and considering they can take 4 hard drives in total, well worth it! You can get some 1TB or 2TB drives for not a lot. They even have a 3TB drive now, but it's still fairly pricing. It's just the cloning part that can be fun.
Kind Regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <wamug @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** On 22/03/2011, at 10:20 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > > On 22/03/2011, at 10:08 AM, gary dorn wrote: > >> >> Howdy >> >> My MacPro 2.66, 3GB RAM, Mac OS 10.5.8 , a 500 GB harddisk , says it has >> only 17Gb left. >> >> In the past week, its been getting spinning ball of death, which meant I >> have had to force restart. >> Usually occurs when I have a number of Pages, Numbers and PDFs open and I go >> to open a 3D imaging software ( google earth, BoA etc) >> >> Is this a sign I need to get another Hard disk? > > Hi Gary, > > Yes, for sure. A hard Drive running with only 17GB Free space, is lucky to be > running at all. > > If your drive is too full, performance is affected dramatically. > You need to keep at least 15%-20% of your total hard drive space free for the > operating system to use for optimal performance. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
