On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:07 AM, steve jenkin <stevej...@gmail.com> wrote: > erik quanstrom wrote on 2/10/11 1:37 PM: >> it's all block storage. >> > > Nope. > In the same way that RAM is finely differentiated with many > incompatibilities & 'gotchas'. > It's not "all memory". > > Go away and actually *do* the thing you are suggesting, then tell us how > you went. > > Get 3-4 macbooks. Preferably a range of machines: old to new. > Get 8-12 replacement drives, differing ages, capacities and types.
my mac's old hard drive, with os x and all my data, has been through 3 macbook(pro)s without a single os x reinstall. recently i dd'd it into an ssd which replaced it with no issue. i don't recommend this or anything; but i have on a couple of occasions yanked the drive out of the mac and into a machine with more storage and dd'd it as a backup (or is it archive?) i only restored from these images once, but it worked. unless the interface is physically incompatible with your machine, i don't see the problem. salman
