Re: System Drive Clone

For what it's worth, any card slot, or for that matter PORT on any computer should be considered temporary. Some of us who've been around for a long time have gone through this so many times that it's an article of faith not to expect the next box to have all the connections of the previous one.

Personally, from my first ever hard drive (an 11 MEG Corvus with a 3pin serial interface) through today, I've seen probably 15 connection "standards" and god knows how many storage solutions - Zip, Jazz, DC2000tape, etc. etc. etc. come and go.)

It's just inevitable.

BTW, isn't the system backup thing EXACTLY what Time Machine was brilliantly designed to do?

If your system goes rogue, just go back to before that happened and the problem is solved.

And even cooler, if you run something like DiscCatalog Maker on your externals, before and after you do the restore, and dump the results into the Document Compare function of WORD - ALL the things that changed between states will get flagged.

FWIW.