From SL to Lion
Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 7:00 am
Hello Everyone,
In order to maintain my .mac mail account (and upgrading to the iCloud) I need upgrade to Lion. I'll be adding a 4th hard drive to my Mac Pro 8 core (2011) for this. SL has been running squeaky clean, so I still intend to do all DP projects on it for the time being. I have two basic questions:
1) Should I clone my SL volume onto the new hard drive (using SuperDuper or equivalent) and then run the Lion upgrade, or could I simply use migration assistant when formatting the new hard drive for Lion?
2) For the new hard drive, I've used the Seagate Barracuda drives in the past with no problems. Howeverm I've noticed the warranties are now only 1 year compared to the WD drives which provide a 3 to 5 year warranty. Is the word on the street that the WD drives are more reliable? Or the Hitachi/IBM drives? I buy from Macsales (OWC).
Thanks all,
DV
In order to maintain my .mac mail account (and upgrading to the iCloud) I need upgrade to Lion. I'll be adding a 4th hard drive to my Mac Pro 8 core (2011) for this. SL has been running squeaky clean, so I still intend to do all DP projects on it for the time being. I have two basic questions:
1) Should I clone my SL volume onto the new hard drive (using SuperDuper or equivalent) and then run the Lion upgrade, or could I simply use migration assistant when formatting the new hard drive for Lion?
2) For the new hard drive, I've used the Seagate Barracuda drives in the past with no problems. Howeverm I've noticed the warranties are now only 1 year compared to the WD drives which provide a 3 to 5 year warranty. Is the word on the street that the WD drives are more reliable? Or the Hitachi/IBM drives? I buy from Macsales (OWC).
Thanks all,
DV