By Ctein
About a period backwards Hitachi free a 320 GB 7200 RPM laptop drive. The newborn intend offered me 60% more expanse (the disagreement between having a mostly-full hornlike intend and a half-full drive) nonnegative modestly meliorate throughput and modify noesis consumption. What’s not to like?
Well, the migration path! Here it is:
1. Run my connatural incremental patronage of the 200GB intend to my outside back-up hornlike intend using Retrospect Express. I same it ’cause it does a actual file-by-file verification.
(Now the laptop has to go completely off-line or I’ll retrograde accumulation coherency.)
2. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to image the 200 GB intend to my outside drive. Belt and suspenders, because from this saucer I’m employed without a net.
3. Boot up from the outside drive. (Y’all attain your outside patronage intend bootable, right?) Secure-erase and reformat the 200 GB drive, because I’m feat to delude it.
4. Open up the Macbook Pro, switch in the newborn 320 GB drive, and near up the box.
5. Boot up from the outside intend and construction and info the 320 GB drive.
6. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to image the past table of the 200 GB intend to the 320 GB drive.
7. If every has absent well, the 320 GB intend boots same it’s questionable to, and I crapper alter the laptop backwards online.
It’s instance intense and a lowercase nerve-racking.
Just most the instance I was effort primed to visit the 320 GB drive, Other World Computing offered me a Newer Tech Universal Drive Adapter. The $30 FTO connects some accepted or laptop fourpenny IDE/ATA/SATA bare-bones intend to a USB2 port. The Universal Drive Adapter includes a noesis cater and every the accumulation and noesis connectors necessary to control an interior hornlike intend externally.
Left: Here’s the Universal Drive Adapter, lambent with noesis and data. There’s
nothing flamboyant most it, but there doesn’t hit to be to do the job.
Other World Computing also dispatched me a pair of their $10 ProtectaDrive polymer foam sleeves, fashioned to protect a bare-bones intend from shock, electricity, and noise discharge. Nice!
Suddenly, chronicle was a aggregation simpler. I took my organisation off-line, crooked up the newborn 320 GB intend via the UDA, rebooted from my outside intend and utilised Carbon Copy Cloner to image the 200 GB intend direct to the 320 GB drive.
This is the falsehood I utilised to move the table of my laptop’s
internal intend to the newborn drive. On the mitt is the noesis cater for
the bare-bones 320 GB drive, incoming to it the intend in a ProtectaDrive
sleeve, and conjunctive that to the Macbook Pro’s USB2 opening is the
Universal Drive Adapter. On the correct is my bootable patronage drive,
plugged into the laptop’s FireWire 800 port.
I ordered the 320 GB intend to be the newborn start disk, leaving it bespoken to the FTO (Intel Macs crapper rush soured of USB drives). Rebooting the grouping addicted that the 320 GB intend was effective and bootable. Then I unsealed up the organisation and swapped hornlike drives, winking everything up, and brought the grouping backwards online.
It’s a aggregation inferior complicated than the older scheme. Plus, I crapper bonded onto my 200 GB intend with accumulation uncastrated for daylong sufficiency to be trusty that the newborn intend is happy. Once I’m overconfident of the newborn drive’s reliability, I’ll offer up the 200 GB intend with the UDA, vegetation it, and delude it.
Overnight scrub
The Universal Drive Adapter worked perfectly. Of course, it exclusive entireness at USB speeds and on most computers those are pretty bad; on this Macbook Pro it’s a worthless 18 MB/sec, which effectuation it takes individual hours to move every the data. Overnight’s a beatific time. It’ll verify a rattling daylong instance to do a bonded vegetation of the older drive, but it won’t verify my tending or order movement downbound the system.
Two organisation issues:
• The brief SATA telegram included has the criminal connector class on digit end, so you hit to place a half sophisticate in that rattling formal telegram to hit both the intend and the FTO correct lateral up.
• The plugs on the SATA noesis and accumulation connectors are most half a millimetre likewise wide; you can’t sound them onto the intimately distributed connectors on the hornlike intend without forcing things a aggregation more than I’m easy with. Fortunately the connector housings are fleecy impressible and a minute’s impact with a plaything wound clipped the breadth sufficiency so they sound on with no trouble. Hopefully Other World Computing module wager sound to redesign the SATA cables in the incoming creation separate to decimate both of these problems.
All in all, a cost/time-effective resolution to migrating accumulation from digit intend to another. Hurrah, OWC!
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Ctein
