Thanks again Bruce. When I get the new drives in a day or two I'll report my experience with Time Machine here, in case other people are wondering how well it works.
Hey, you're not so irrational as you claim to be, John. That's a good idea, cloning the old working drive to a new drive with Disk Utility. How 'bout this plan, then: I put the first of the new drives in the G5 alongside the old drive that's still working, and clone the old to the new. Then I toss the old drive and put in the second new one, install OS 10.5 on it, and let Time Machine restore the dead drive's data to that one. Then I'm back where I started before the trouble began, except now I have all new drives, and maybe millions of hours before the next crisis. . . maybe. . . I hope. I suppose I could stick the old working drive into an external enclosure and keep on using it, if such can be had cheaply somewhere. Talking about the features of these two new Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 drives I just bought from OWC, I notice that Hitachi also claims that this more expensive model works well when it's mounted close to another drive (see <http://tinyurl.com/dec2kl> again). It says there that two drives running close to each other, both vibrating slightly as drives do, can jiggle each other into derangement eventually, or some such thing, and these Deskstar E7K1000s are made to resist that. Or something. This G5 does mount its drives right tight together, one close on top of the other one, so maybe that's a useful feature to have. Heck, I want to feel like I got something great for the extra money. I guess the bigger cache size and the longer warranty are worthwhile, too, and Hitachi does brag about the longevity of this drive, while it is conspicuously silent about the lifespan of the cheaper one, as well as not being willing to warranty it for as long. I'm willing to pay a little extra not to have to go through this dead drive hassle again anytime soon. Let a few million hours go by first, I say. Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
