Time for a drive upgrade. This HDD I’m replacing is the last remaining component from the pre-built I bought in 2018.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Congrats. SSD space is definitely one of the cheaper components these days so you picked a good time!

    Also, is it just me or does that cloning software look like a Windows XP software with just a bit of Windows 10 makeup on?

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      1 year ago

      @rgb_leds_are_love

      Oh no worries on that, I did. Luckily the drive I was replacing was just for media, not for the OS, but I decided to go with a 2.5” SATA drive for it. My OS drive and games drive were both already NVME M.2 drives.

      Speaking of slow computers though, I recently reinstalled MacOS on an iMac from like 2012… It was excruciatingly slow, even just to boot into the OS. I do not miss those days.

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        1 year ago

        @hybridhavoc

        Does it take a lot less time these days? The 2014 Mac Mini is the first and (so far) the only Apple device I’ve owned. The OS installation and updates take close to an hour on this one.

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          @rgb_leds_are_love

          That feels about right for how long it took that one. I don’t have any idea what more modern macs are like - that 2012 one is the only one I’ve ever worked on, and it wasn’t for personal use. I suspect that if it had an SSD it would have gone faster.