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Aug. 26th, 2003 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaOooh. That's what? 5 or 6 posts today? I'm set for a month!
Just a random babble about how great Macs are.
Today I installed a 120G HD in my G4. This consisted of pulling on the handle which opens the cover, unscrewing two screws to release the drive bay, 4 screws to put the drive in the bay, then putting the bay back on and plugging in the cables. On powerup my machine saw the new drive and went into Disk Utility. I named the drive and said 'OK' and it went off an did its thing int he backgroun and let me work while it was testing, formatting, partitioning, and configuring the drive. Total impact to my work time: About 15 minutes.
Don't even get me started on how this compares with my last PC drive installation.
So... Now my Mac is up to 1/4 terrabyte of disk space! Yay! I can animate and video edit like a diseased maniac! :)
On a related note, I found out how to change the pictures for the harddrives from the stupid/ugly default 'looks like a harddrive' icon to whatever I want.. Gotta come up with some good ideas for what to make them look lke. I'm thinking still drive-like but with some reference to their use.
Also, what should I name my drives? My machine is somewhat eclecticly named at the moment. The uname is 'Geepers', the main drive is 'Sammi', the second drive is 'GIR' and the new one got named 'KidVideo'.
Eesh. Maybe I should name them after obscure 80's cartoons. Skip down to 'Saturday Mornings' and there's a wealth of imaes to choose from I think I'd like something a little less geeky and more 'me' tho. Haveta think about it some more. Past bedtime now tho.
Just a random babble about how great Macs are.
Today I installed a 120G HD in my G4. This consisted of pulling on the handle which opens the cover, unscrewing two screws to release the drive bay, 4 screws to put the drive in the bay, then putting the bay back on and plugging in the cables. On powerup my machine saw the new drive and went into Disk Utility. I named the drive and said 'OK' and it went off an did its thing int he backgroun and let me work while it was testing, formatting, partitioning, and configuring the drive. Total impact to my work time: About 15 minutes.
Don't even get me started on how this compares with my last PC drive installation.
So... Now my Mac is up to 1/4 terrabyte of disk space! Yay! I can animate and video edit like a diseased maniac! :)
On a related note, I found out how to change the pictures for the harddrives from the stupid/ugly default 'looks like a harddrive' icon to whatever I want.. Gotta come up with some good ideas for what to make them look lke. I'm thinking still drive-like but with some reference to their use.
Also, what should I name my drives? My machine is somewhat eclecticly named at the moment. The uname is 'Geepers', the main drive is 'Sammi', the second drive is 'GIR' and the new one got named 'KidVideo'.
Eesh. Maybe I should name them after obscure 80's cartoons. Skip down to 'Saturday Mornings' and there's a wealth of imaes to choose from I think I'd like something a little less geeky and more 'me' tho. Haveta think about it some more. Past bedtime now tho.
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Date: 2003-08-27 08:45 am (UTC)50 Gigs + 60 Gigs + 120 Gigs = *boggle*
Why in my day I remember when that 40 k drive was frickin' huge and cost three hundred bucks...
So yeah - I've got a couple high speed 80 GBs if you need more. Tanan's trying to find you a DVD burner, but so far aren't finding one. We'll keep looking.