Back-up drive advice

[sanctified89]

Hey guys, planning on picking up a new 15" Macbook Pro (base model) in a couple weeks. I was looking at buying the Samsung 830 SSD (128GB) to use as a boot drive and an OWC data doubler to place a hard-drive in the optical drive slot for storage. My only question is if it's worth it to use the stock hard-drive that comes with the computer (which is typically a 5,400rpm) or if I should pick up a cheap 7,200rpm for more speed. I doubt I'll be accessing the data drive all that much to be honest, I just wanted a second opinion.

 

[jomirrivera]

Hey guys, planning on picking up a new 15" Macbook Pro (base model) in a couple weeks. I was looking at buying the Samsung 830 SSD (128GB) to use as a boot drive and an OWC data doubler to place a hard-drive in the optical drive slot for storage. My only question is if it's worth it to use the stock hard-drive that comes with the computer (which is typically a 5,400rpm) or if I should pick up a cheap 7,200rpm for more speed. I doubt I'll be accessing the data drive all that much to be honest, I just wanted a second opinion.

IMO you should use the original HDD, its good enough!

 

[GGJstudios]

Hey guys, planning on picking up a new 15" Macbook Pro (base model) in a couple weeks. I was looking at buying the Samsung 830 SSD (128GB) to use as a boot drive and an OWC data doubler to place a hard-drive in the optical drive slot for storage. My only question is if it's worth it to use the stock hard-drive that comes with the computer (which is typically a 5,400rpm) or if I should pick up a cheap 7,200rpm for more speed. I doubt I'll be accessing the data drive all that much to be honest, I just wanted a second opinion.

A very simple and effective method is to buy the new drive in an external enclosure, then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the internal to the external, then swap the drives and boot up. Your new drive is now the internal and your old drive is now an external drive, useful for backups or additional storage.