Capacity boost: laptop hard drives, “computer ages” and OSX
Ten years ago my first Powerbook was equipped with an impressive 20MB hard drive. No, there is no typo, they were 20 megabytes, not GB. The “computer age” we were living was quite different, and with my System 7 (Mac OS 7) I was left half of the space for my documents. As if I would have been capable of filling 10MB of space… I had some floppy disks, just to keep some of the first things downloaded from Internet, but that was it! Only lately I would have been pushed to take my first Iomega Zip: 100MB all in a single cartridge.
But times have changed and in ten years we have moved through the computer ages and now 120GB were not enough! Luckily for less than a hundred pounds I have been able to found a brand new 250GB Western Digital Skorpio for laptop. I’m quite happy after the switch for more than one reason.
First of all for the first time in months I have more than few GB free. Secondly (but not less important) I have tested another quality of OS X: the importation. Just after installing the OS on the new HDD, Mac OS X proposed me to import all my settings, documents and application from the old disk (connected via Firewire in an external case). In less than twenty minutes everything was restored in my new disk, everything set up as I needed.
A brand new OS installation has never been so easy and fast!
I don’t expect this disk to last long, the years have taught me that the hard disk space is never enough, but at least for some months (and some of my experiments) I shoud be fine!
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