MBP and Solid State Hybrid Drives

Bwana, does the drive make noise only on your dining room table? Is it made of Glass? Noise is worrying as my laptop sits on a table most of the time, dont move it around too much since i got the iPad.
 
Ok got my drive... formatting it in my external using Mac OS Journaled and 1 partition using GUID. Will use super duper next then switch out the drives.

Edit: busy copying...

edit 17:16... Still copying, I see what bwana meant.....
 
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phiber said:
Ok got my drive... formatting it in my external using Mac OS Journaled and 1 partition using GUID. Will use super duper next then switch out the drives.

Edit: busy copying...

edit 17:16... Still copying, I see what bwana meant.....
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You should be done by now :D How's it working out for you?
 
bwana said:
You should be done by now :D How's it working out for you?
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Sorry, went out last night... Copy took 4 hours for my 250 gig hard drive... Installed the drive about 5 mins ago, just booted... First boot took forever, but this drive is defintely quieter than my 5400 Fujitsu that came out (consider my macbook is now 2 years old the drive is probably a bit buggered). The vibration is a bit more but spotlight is busy indexing.. Amazed how super drive just cloned everything and got me back to where i was! Nice app guys, good find.

After spotlight indexes i will start using this, trying a few boot and start playing with the apps i load usually (really keen to get the start time of eclipse down).

Was quite an easy install, just a bit bleak with the TORX screws, the heads always strip a little when i am putting them back in, changing the drive again is going to be difficult. Will post updates through the week.
 
phiber said:
Amazed how super drive just cloned everything and got me back to where i was! Nice app guys, good find.
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Do consider buying a license to support the guys who make it. You get the added ability to update a cloned drive, which makes for an excellent disaster recovery solution. I maintain three such clones of of my hard drive - one that stays at work, one that stays at home and one that goes travelling with me. If the drive in my MBP dies, I can just replace it and keep right on working. This saved my behind big time when my MacBook got nicked.
 
I'm interested to find out what you think of the drive?
I can say for sure that when going from my laptop(5400) to PC(hybrid) ther is a difference, but from 7200 to hybrid, I just don't find it as noticeable. Unless I've just gotten used to it as it slowly got faster an faster with my regular apps :)
 
koffiejunkie said:
Do consider buying a license to support the guys who make it. You get the added ability to update a cloned drive, which makes for an excellent disaster recovery solution. I maintain three such clones of of my hard drive - one that stays at work, one that stays at home and one that goes travelling with me. If the drive in my MBP dies, I can just replace it and keep right on working. This saved my behind big time when my MacBook got nicked.
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I am already considering buying a license... just wanna read a bit more about how that updated clone drive works, cos that is way better than time machine imo.
 
@phiber. Don't forget to select the new drive as your startup disk in the system prefs ;)
 
phiber said:
I am already considering buying a license... just wanna read a bit more about how that updated clone drive works, cos that is way better than time machine imo.
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It's dead simple.

Copy: <internal drive>
to: <external drive>
using: <backup all files>
click "Options"
During copy: <Smart update>
click "OK"
click "Copy Now"
 
Time machine and superdupr perform two distinct roles. Having and using both is the ideal solution.
 
bwana said:
Time machine and superdupr perform two distinct roles. Having and using both is the ideal solution.
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yea, dont really need a time machine only need something incase machine cooks out and i need to restore my old data.
 
Only noticed 1 thing really speed up now, and thats mail. it starts immediately, used to take a few seconds before.
 
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