Internal or External

[Mr. Anderson]

I'm running out of room again....so I'm thinking of buying another harddrive for my MDD G4. It has room for another one, but I was wondering if it would be better to get an external firewire or not. I do a lot of video editing lately, and speed would be nice and since I don't have a Firewire 800 connector on the G4 I'm stuck with the original FW.

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[sethypoo]

Personally, I would go with an internal drive: they're always faster. I find with video editing that speed greatly helps with my creative process; when I get a great idea, I don't like to wait for a external hard drive to write my data.

 

[PlaceofDis]

go internal, you can always buy an enclosure for it later, and you have the room for it now so why not? you should be able to get more space for your money that way too

 

[James Philp]

internal. faster (more bandwidth), more reliable too IMO

 

[Blue Velvet]

I also vote for internal -- use the spare bay if you have it. More Gbs for your dollar, prob. faster than FW400.

250-300gb seems to be a good price point at the mo.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Ok, so that's settled, now which one

I have a MDD Dual 1.25 GHz PowerMac - any suggestions on the drive? There seem to be a lot of ones made for the more current G5s and since this machine is a little old now I'm curious if anyone else has updated something similar recently and what they got.

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[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Any Seagate Barracuda should be very high quality and considerably more quiet than most drives out there...

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Any Seagate Barracuda should be very high quality and considerably more quiet than most drives out there...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t..._f/002-2485423-5992866?v=glance&s=electronics

amazon has a nice 200 Gig model, but any other suggestions for where to buy?

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[wiseguy27]

Seagate or Hitachi

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t..._f/002-2485423-5992866?v=glance&s=electronics

amazon has a nice 200 Gig model, but any other suggestions for where to buy?

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I would recommend Seagate and Hitachi since they provide 3 year or 5 year warranties on most models. As for deals, check:
http://www.edealinfo.com
http://www.dealmac.com/sections/storage.html
http://www.resellerratings.com
http://www.deals2buy.com
http://www.fatwallet.com

Both edealinfo and dealmac have some good deals right now. Also look at 160GB onwards (if that suits you) - the best deals are usually for 120GB to 300GB.

Also don't forget to do a price comparison on http://www.pricegrabber.com, http://www.bizrate.com, http://www.pricehead.com, http://www.pricescan.com and http://www.nextag.com.

The best deals right now come to around 30 to 50 cents a Gig for an internal (IDE/PATA) drive - anything beyond that and you're probably paying too much.

 

[dmw007]

Any Seagate Barracuda should be very high quality and considerably more quiet than most drives out there...

I second this advice. I have a 80GB Seagate Barracuda in my pc and it is fast and quiet (and reliable- I have been using it for over 3 years!). I am sure the newer models are even better!