Hello
Last year I changed my old macbook's set up. I took out the CD drive and put a 120GB SSD in there, and put a 1TB HD into the normal HD space. The SSD is running the OS and Lightroom and Photoshop. And all of my photos are on the 1TB drive.
Now, I need to move to a new 1TB hard drive, as my current one is quite filled up. However, my 120GB SSD only has 20GB left. In the past, everything was on 1 hard drive, so this was easy to move to a new drive. My original plan was to keep the SSD with the OS in the computer, format it, and start fresh on that drive too. (so that I have a fresh install of the OS, and other programs, to start a fresh Time Machine backup). I don't know if I'm making much sense, as I'm quite lost on how to proceed. I will absolutely figure this out, but just hoping someone can chime in with some advice on this of some kind.
One question that I actually have. Time machine backs up all of the internal drives (at least on my machine it is). So what happens if I try to restore the back up? Do I need 2 identical type of hard drives in the computer that it originally backed up? Honestly I use Time Machine because its integrated and easy, and mostly I use it simply to back up all of my RAW files (and some random other files laying around). But I wonder how difficult it would be to restore 2 hard drives from one backup? Anyone have any experience with this?
Last year I changed my old macbook's set up. I took out the CD drive and put a 120GB SSD in there, and put a 1TB HD into the normal HD space. The SSD is running the OS and Lightroom and Photoshop. And all of my photos are on the 1TB drive.
Now, I need to move to a new 1TB hard drive, as my current one is quite filled up. However, my 120GB SSD only has 20GB left. In the past, everything was on 1 hard drive, so this was easy to move to a new drive. My original plan was to keep the SSD with the OS in the computer, format it, and start fresh on that drive too. (so that I have a fresh install of the OS, and other programs, to start a fresh Time Machine backup). I don't know if I'm making much sense, as I'm quite lost on how to proceed. I will absolutely figure this out, but just hoping someone can chime in with some advice on this of some kind.
One question that I actually have. Time machine backs up all of the internal drives (at least on my machine it is). So what happens if I try to restore the back up? Do I need 2 identical type of hard drives in the computer that it originally backed up? Honestly I use Time Machine because its integrated and easy, and mostly I use it simply to back up all of my RAW files (and some random other files laying around). But I wonder how difficult it would be to restore 2 hard drives from one backup? Anyone have any experience with this?