Super Duper disc cloner (free, too). Mac-only, naturally.

My laptop, which has quickly become my main computer- even for basic dv video editing- needs a new hard drive. The standard 70GB drive is almost completely full. That’s what you get when you run something like 20 apps a day for normal work, I guess. I also keep current client stuff on this laptop, and well… things have been busy here!

I am getting a new 200GB internal drive in the next couple of weeks, and one of the things I’ve hated about updating your main drive is all the files and system settings, etc that you lose. Hopefully, this new Super Duper thing will make this transplant a success.

But even if you don’t need to replace your internal hard drive, this is the time of year to remind all you kiddies to back up your data. I remember way back in the olden days, when I’d back up to tape. I miss tape.

Not really. Tape sucked.

And for those who care, I have about 2 TB of storage hooked up to this machine as well via firewire and USB2. And the tower Mac- dual G5s & 4 GB RAM which is about a year out of date except for its AMAZING video card- has about 2 TB as well. Hey, when you move around lots of video and high def video you need a ton of storage.