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Whats better? 1tb or 500gb

DigitalStimulus

DigitalStimulus

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Feb 7, 2008
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I currently have a Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB drive for my OS and am wondering if there would be a performance gain or loss with the use of a
Seagate ST3500320AS 500gb drive instead?

My setup:
Mac Pro 2.8 8-core (early 2008)
OS X Leopard w/ 10.5.2 updates
8 GB RAM
8800GT

I use Logic Pro 8 exclusively for on this system and wanted some advice in my decision. I would like to change the 1tb drive as my time machine backup drive and use a 500gb for the OS and another 500gb for music files.

Please help!
 
catfish743

catfish743

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Sep 12, 2007
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can you get a Terabyte and the partition the disk? I guess if you want double redundancy ( I think that's what it is called) just to be safe then I would go with the 2 500 GB's. How much is the Terabyte?
 
pianodude123

pianodude123

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catfish743 said:
can you get a Terabyte and the partition the disk? I guess if you want double redundancy ( I think that's what it is called) just to be safe then I would go with the 2 500 GB's. How much is the Terabyte?
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1 1TB drive is twice as stable as 2 500GBs raided together to make 1TB - (two drives = twice the probability of failure.)
 
fanbrain

fanbrain

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Jan 31, 2005
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catfish743 said:
can you get a Terabyte and the partition the disk? I guess if you want double redundancy ( I think that's what it is called) just to be safe then I would go with the 2 500 GB's. How much is the Terabyte?
Click to expand...

Double redunancy= 0 if the drive fails. If I had the space, I would go with the 2x500GB rather than the 1TB. I didn't have the room so I chose the 1TB to go along with the 500GB boot disk (two bay G5 tower). Did that make sense?
 
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