I thought I’d make a thread on DIY upgrades as I’m about to embark on a few projects.
The first couple I did yesterday.
Before:
1 x 3 Tb Seagate HDD in external Thunderbolt LaCie
4 x 1 Tb Hitachi HDDs in external Thunderbolt Promise Pegasus RAID
I bought from Warehouse1:
1 x 6 Tb Seagate HDD
3 x 3 Tb Seagate HDDs
Last night I did the upgrade on my kitchen table:
I bought the same Seagate 3 Tb HDD as the one in the LaCie, and what I did was move that into the RAID, and replace it with the 6 Tb.
After:
1 x 6 Tb Seagate HDD in external Thunderbolt LaCie
4 x 3 Tb Seagate HDDs in external Thunderbolt Promise Pegasus RAID
(Total of 18Tb - but I will run the 4 x 3Tb in RAID 10, so I will end up having 6 Tb + 6 Tb = 12 Tb).
I now have 4 x 1Tb Hitachis left over, that are dated May 2012.
Anyone looking to buy a set of 1Tb 7200 SATA-3 drives?
Anyway, about to upgrade my internal 1 Tb HDD in my Mac Mini to a 2nd 256Gb SSD (as a second backup boot disk) - waiting for delivery of disk and tools from Ramcity - will post about that in the next couple of days.