Any drive connected, backup or otherwise, is not to be considered a safe data redundancy.Ģ. Protected data redundancy begins at the second external copy due to:ġ. Only the second external HD is your first safe data redundancy. All data on the first external HD is your backup.ģ.

All data on the computer is just that, your data.Ģ. Hard drives are cheap as dirt, your data is priceless, and your wifes data. Never make the HUGE mistake everyone else does, thinking a single external HD is a safe data backup Yourself as well, a SINGLE external data backup is by far the biggest mistake people make in general. Which is why I and many dont use Itunes and Iphoto specifically.īut my wife has 16,000+ photos and growing! She is down to 50 gigs remaining on the 128 gig drive. The iphoto library has to be local on the drive as with itunes Or in the case of the consumer this means you keep folders for large imported or created data and you ritually offload and archive this data for safekeeping, not only to safeguard the data in case your macbook has a HD crash, or gets stolen, but importantly in keeping the ‘breathing room’ open for your computer to operate, expand, create files, add applications, for your APPS to create temp files, and for general operation.Mohr308 wrote:if its not on the drive you cant access them using iTunes or iPhoto. Professionals who create and import very large amounts of data have almost no change in the available space on their computers internal HD because they are constantly archiving data to arrays of external or networked HD. You should never be put in the position of considering “deleting things” on your macbook SSD in order to ‘make space’.

In the case of a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro Retina with ‘limited’ storage on the SSD, this distinction becomes more important in that in an ever rapidly increasing file-size world, you keep vital large media files, pics, video, PDF collections, music off your SSD and archived on external storage, for sake of the necessary room for your system to have free space to operate, store future applications and general workspace. If your not using it every 2 weeks or so, it really doesnt need OWC sells SSD upgrades for your macbook AirĬonsider storing large media files OFF your computer and on an external HD. Thats not memory (RAM), thats your SSD, your storageĬan be done yes, but very expensive and very impractical idea

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