Is it easy to upgrade the hard disk in a Mac?
Some are easier than others. Tekserve usually completes hard drive upgrades within one business day, including transferring all the data from the old drive (so your Mac looks and works just like it did before, except that the hard drive has more free space). Drive sizes are constantly growing. There are now iPods that have hard drives larger than many computers.
You can also purchase external hard drives to provide additional storage space for your work and your backups. FireWire has been our preference over USB, but some new Macs only have USB. Many external drives now have both interfaces. Tekserve stocks a wide variety of external drives and can recommend the best one based on your specific requirements (size, cost, speed, etc.).
Published March 24, 2009 12:00 PM
Last modified on June 16, 2009 5:27 PM
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