Time Machine is an excellent feature, its done in true Apple style, simple yet powerful, but there is one downfall to Time Machine, and thats the hardware it requires. Like most people, I use an external drive for Time Machine, the Porsche designed LaCie 500Gb USB drive.

My problem with the Porsche designed LaCie drive is its noise. This drive has a fan that kicks in after the drive’s been on for a while, it’ll turn off after it’s cooled down, but its annoying either way. I’ve been reluctant to to pull the drive apart because there are no visible screws or access points.

For those wondering, the Porsche designed LaCie 500Gb USB external drive has a 7200 RPM 3Gb/s SATA drive with 16Mb of cache (here’s a link to the drive on newegg).

Originally, I was just going to disconnect the fan inside the drive, but once I saw it had a SATA drive I decided to move the drive inside my Mac Pro. If that’s what you want to do, here’s the instructions to do so.

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Spotlight makes finding files quick and easy, but Apple dumbed down the search results by only including non-system files in Spotlight’s search results. There are several instanced when you need to search your entire system for files, currently, the quickest way to display search results is by selectively searching in the “Library” folder.

But now you can search your entire system (including system files), and here’s how…

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