#Smartreporter mac 2. pro
#Smartreporter mac 2. software

It may be possible for the police to find a stolen device or for a recovery service to retrieve the data from a dead disk, but the risks are too great to leave to luck. If your computer has gone or the disk has failed, so too has your data. SMARTReporter which is now on the Mac App Store. I have additional utilities, including CoreCode's status (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) using Disk Utility, could help. There may be some warning if you are lucky and a check of the S.M.A.R.T. Most churn away for years: note that disk makers usually give 3 or 5 years warranty, while some disks have only a year.

2 TB LaCie Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt - 9.61 seconds.

2 TB Western Digital My Book Studio disk with Firewire and the adapter - 24.53 seconds.

500 GB LaCie Big Disk with Firewire 800 and Thunderbolt adapter - 23.86 secs.

1 TB Imation disk with Micro-B USB 3.0 - 17.28 seconds.

500 GB Imation with USB 2.0 - 36.43 seconds.

I checked transfer speeds on all the disks I had using a 1.56 GB MPEG test file: When I looked on Saturday, this was less than the 14,000 he had suggested. He also told me on the phone that they did have another LaCie Thunderbolt disk. When he phoned later in the week, the SSD disk was not available (sold out in the USA too) and he estimated that the price would be around 40,000 with VAT. He made a phone call to the main office and enquiries were under way. He told me they had something similar but these were out of stock (order about 2 weeks). I saw that the LaCie disk I have currently has been updated to Thunderbolt and larger capacity (3, 4 or 5 TB) and starts at a more accessible $299.īefore asking the iStudio staff, I loaded the page on my iPhone which I showed to the helpful 'Dech' (Narudech).

Its small size, 1 TB capacity and speed made this attractive. I was particularly interested in a new disk that used a 1TB SSD drive. I also saw that one of the authorised distributors here was iStudio (Copperwired), so I called in to the Siam Discovery store early last week.

I have a couple of Imation disks too.Ī look on the LaCie site showed me a number of disks with Thunderbolt capabilities. I like LaCie disks, although also use a 2 TB Western Digital My Book Studio. Most disks here use USB 3.0 and are priced in the region of 2,500 for a 1 TB disk. I also use cloud systems for some backups, although have yet to find one that suits me perfectly.ĭespite the use of Thunderbolt ports on all new Macs, it is hard to find an external hard disk that uses a Thunderbolt cable to connect in Bangkok. Time Machine Backup Disks: Firewire 800, USB 3.0 and ThunderboltĪs well as using Time Machine, I use the Finder to transfer certain irreplaceable files directly to a hard disk. I bought an Apple Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapter (1,090 baht - $29). The newer machine has Thunderbolt ports for fast data transfers. That was used with my previous MacBook Pro. The office disk uses USB, but the other disk has a Firewire cable. I use two disks to back up with Time Machine: one at work and one at home. I have information about this on my website in an A - Z List of System Preferences. A disk needs to use an OS X Extended (Journaled) partition and Time Machine is set up in System Preferences. The process took around 45 minutes in both cases. When the 15' Mac was returned with its new disk, I transferred all data (including what was created in the interim) back to the 15' machine.

#Smartreporter mac 2. pro

When a disk failed on a 15' MacBook Pro that was under warranty, I picked up a MacBook Pro 13' as a short-term replacement and used Apple's Time Machine to make the 13' Mac my new main machine. It took a burglary and the loss of a Mac with all my photographs for me to take backing up seriously. My teaching colleagues admit to backing up once a month, or less: maybe more when running a project.

#Smartreporter mac 2. software

With all the work they put into classes and their projects, they risk losing all: either by theft, loss, hard disk failure or software problems. There is silence, then a slight giggle, then the class breaks into laughter. I ask if they have backed up their computers. I have one sure way to make my students laugh. Backing up on a Mac - External Hard Disks, Bangkok Post, Life