What to do with spare hard drive

[kmaultsby]

I have a G5 tower with the standard 250 gig hard drive install I also have a external 250 hard drive connected by firewire 800 for video editing. I have a 160 gig serial hard drive doing nothing but sitting in a box. Should I install it in my mac and store all my imac backups on it? Is this a good idea or should just get another external backup?

[OutThere]

If you're comfortable with the install (it's quite simple) it'd be more useful inside your computer than disconnected.

Otherwise you can buy a firewire enclosure for it and install it in that.

[AlBDamned]

Originally Posted by OutThere

Otherwise you can buy a firewire enclosure for it and install it in that.

yeah that option's good as it means you can use it to backup both computers and it would only cost you $30 or so.

As said though, putting it in the G5 is pretty straightforward.

[SmurfBoxMasta]

Originally Posted by kmaultsby

I have a G5 tower with the standard 250 gig hard drive install I also have a external 250 hard drive connected by firewire 800 for video editing. I have a 160 gig serial hard drive doing nothing but sitting in a box. Should I install it in my mac and store all my imac backups on it? Is this a good idea or should just get another external backup?

lookie here

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=299721

ps... I linked your post there in case you want to sell the HD....