I just bought a refurbished Intel iMac from (not the newest version). Your set up sounds great and looks like it would work for me and the quandary I am in. Just do a +zero out data+ erase, reinstall original OS and apps, and sell it. I won't have to take my iMac apart again to remove that big drive, or even do any extensive data transfer off the internal drive, since it is mostly the OS and apps. When I replace my trusty iMac a few years from now (probably about the time Snow Leopard ends its run), all I have to do is take my external drives with my data and backup to my new Mac. If that 320GB drive becomes too full, I would put my 750GB drive in the FireWire case, and get an even bigger drive for the Time Machine archive connected by USB 2.0. This is a flexible arrangement, and it runs quite well for a +late 2006+ model, especially since going to 10.6.1. And I have a 750GB USB 2.0 drive that is my Time Machine archive drive, which backs up the internal drive and FireWire drive. I have a 320GB FireWire (400) drive that holds most of my user data. Most of my user data is on an external drive, so more than 50% is free space on that internal drive. My setup is the stock 160GB internal drive which is mostly used for the OS and apps. There is operational efficiency to running the OS and apps off a limited size volume, about 160GB to 250GB, and storing user data on a separate drive. I prefer to expand the primary storage with FireWire. is having a 10% off sale this weekend on all their hard drives Green lineup is marketed as being low-power. Green drive that I use externally, as my Time Machine archive drive, and it is extremely quiet and barely gets warm the Any 3.5-inch SATA drive should work, as long as it does not exceed the power and thermal limitation of being inside an iMac case.
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