[MacDV] Hard Drive Problem Coming?

[Thubten Kunga]

Hi Chuck,
Where are you? I ask, because that helps me know what kind of deals you 
can get on a new HD locally.

If you are in California or New York, I would get a 8 MB buffered 120 
on sale somewhere that you can move to your new Mac. Should be able to 
find it for around $120-$150 after rebate. I would wait for the next PM 
refresh before I bought a new Tower. The current line is noisy. 
http://www.g4noise.com

Don't forget to download iMovie 3 and iPhoto 2 on Saturday 1.25. They 
should make producing your project a lot easier. When you get your 
Spring 2003 Mac with DVR-105 SuperDrive and iDVD3, your project will be 
iDVD ready if you use iMovie 3 to compose it.

The 40 may or may not be near death. Putting in the 120 and copying 
everything to it in 9.2 is no problem. Do you have a copy of Jaguar? No 
excuse. It's free to teachers through March 31st. 
http://www.apple.com/education/macosxforteachers/

Partition the 120 giving yourself 10 GB for Jaguar (the first 
partition), 5-10GB for 9.2.2, maybe a couple of 50GB partitions for the 
iMovie scratch disks. Then copy all your stuff from the 40 to the 120 
as backup.

Any questions?

k

On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 02:58  PM, Chuck Kay wrote:

> Hey guys;
>
> this is sort of DV related. I'm using a borrowed G4 Tower (533 mhz/OS 
> 9.2)
> from the local school (I'm a school teacher). I'm about to upgrade all 
> my
> personal equipment and this is getting me by for the next few months. 
> I have
> a major video project due in about 1 month (using iMovie). I will 
> return the
> machine when finished w/project and I get my new equipment.
>
> The HD on this machine is a 40 GB (AT66). I'm wondering if it is 
> getting
> ready to go bad. It is not causing any problems. However, anytime I do 
> a
> search (Sherlock) for files, etc... or Apple System Profiler does a 
> scan,
> etc... the drive makes a continuos scraping/clicking type of noise. It 
> is
> not very loud, lasts about 10 seconds (the time it takes to do a 
> search or
> scan). The search and scan seem to be successful. This noise is not
> replicated while perfoming any other tasks: finder, scrolling, 
> launching
> apps, using apps, saving files, etc...
>
> It was sitting in a corner at local school gathering dust because the 
> new
> personnel didn't like Macs and wasn't about to touch it. It has iMovie,
> Photoshop, Filemaker Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Acrobat, MS Office,
> etc.... These apps can easily be reinstalled if need be. I have access 
> to
> all the original programs bought for this machine. The documents and 
> data on
> the machine are not important. Although I have backed them up to 
> another
> machine to a new 80 GB drive.
>
> I have had a disk crash before but it was SCSI on an older machine. 
> What do
> you guys think. Should I buy a cheap 60 GB drive for my iMovie project 
> or do
> you think I'm OK? The project will be approx. 30 minutes. I will 
> export to
> tape and eventually to DVD when I get my new machine(s) in a couple of
> months. Your advice is MUCHO appreciated.
>
> Chuck Kay