SCO0058 - Firewire Drives and Disk Utility

You can never have enough storage on your Mac! This weeks show covers adding additional firewire drives to your Mac using an external firewire enclosure.

I also cover the OSX Disk Utility application and demonstrate how to configure your disks using the RAID options built-in to OSX.

Free ScreenCast Covers:
Comparison of USB and Firewire
Setting up an external firewire enclosure
Configuring and installing Hard Drives
Intro to Disk Utility
Partitioning a Disk
Deleting a Volume


Extra Section Covers:
Using Disk Utility to setup:
A Mirrored Disk Set (RAID 1)
A Striped Disk set (RAID 0)
A Concatenated Disk set (JBOD)

The free version of the show in iPod and desktop resolution is available to all via a free subscription to iTunes (recommended) or to view in your browser

The full show including the Extra! section is available automatically to ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members in high definition as part of the 6 monthly membership - See here for details

The full show is also available as pay for download for only $1.99 USD for all three high resolution versions (HD, ED and iPod) - Click here for immediate download!

Supplier Special Offer - Use "podcast" in the coupon code to get 7.5% discount off external firewire enclosures - SpecialTech with ScreenCastsOnline

Duration: 14:26 | Size: 25MB | Discussions: Forum

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