The 0011 Blog

I have NO CLUE why external USB Drives are really cheap  relative to their internal counterparts.  It makes no sense!  I bought a  320 GB WD USB Drive to upgrade my Apple TV (More on that later…) and learned that the USB drive is SATA while the AppleTV is PATA.    Oye!  So, I booted into the OS X Install DVD and used the Disk Utility ‘restore’ my existing 110GB Internal HDD to the external 320 GB WD USB Drive.  I had about 80GB of meat, so it took about 45 minutes to complete.  Add about 30 minutes to crack open the laptop and swap the drives, and bam. 320GB of internal storage!  I paid $139 before taxes. not bad considering that there are places out there that sell for as low as 130 + shipping & taxes :).

The biggest drawback is that time machine sees this as a NEW drive, thus will back it up in it’s entirety :(.

Time to re-do my bootcamp partition

P.S. I ordered a WD 250GB Scorpio drive for the apple TV.  I’ll post more on that later