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2TB hard drive

dholaday

dholaday

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Mar 27, 2009
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New MacPro seems to be shipping with WD Caviar Black for the 1TB HD. What 2TB HD is Apple using in the 2010 MP?

Thanks
 
Probably the same—a caviar black.

But upgrading the drive through Apple is a waste of money. For roughly the same price you can buy a 2TB drive yourself and still keep the first 1TB drive.
 
caviar black 2tb can be found for under 179. caviar black 1tb can be found for 99. both sealed with 5 year warranty. don't buy them from apple you would truly be burning money.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...n_digital_caviar_black-_-22-136-456-_-Product

2tb 179.99

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name...-WD1002FAEX-1TB-SATA3-7200rpm-64MB-Hard-Drive

1tb 85

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name...-WD1001FALS-1TB-SATA2-7200rpm-32MB-Hard-Drive


1tb 89 I think this is the exact one apple sends to you High5 is a 5 dollar discount code
 
Like someone already said, it is probably a Caviar Black. But considering people are smart enough to buy drives themselves, we may not know for a while.
 
philipma1957 said:
caviar black 2tb can be found for under 179. caviar black 1tb can be found for 99. both sealed with 5 year warranty. don't buy them from apple you would truly be burning money.
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Speaking of warranty, what's the warranty on the OEM caviar black Apple installs in the Mac Pros? (I know WD doesn't handle the warranty on OEM drives)
 
Since the 1TB and 2TB are supported by Apple RAID card, if they were just Black drives, they wouldn't support TLER, which in turn causes issues with RAID arrays.

Are they some Apple/OEM hybrid between the black and RE models? Or does Apple RAID card take into account the desktop drive TLER setting?

Because the 2TB pricing is basically the retail prices of the Western Digital RE (enterprise) drives...

The same goes for the desktop-class HDS722020ALA330, stated above, but from a Hitachi white paper, it says "video editing arrays", so maybe its more raid friendly (the Hitachi drive)
 
MacSince1985 said:
Speaking of warranty, what's the warranty on the OEM caviar black Apple installs in the Mac Pros? (I know WD doesn't handle the warranty on OEM drives)
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Don't know for sure, but I'll bet warranty is whatever covers your MP: 1 year unless you have applecare, then 3 yrs.

FYI, Hitachi Deskstar/7K2000 is on Newegg for $130
 
Apple normally chooses Toshiba, but when on low stock of them, they go with Caviars.
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Toshiba hasn't manufactured any 3.5" internal drives outside of enterprise-class SAS drives for a while now. Their consumer market focuses on 2.5" (and smaller) drives. Are you sure you didn't mean Hitachi?

For what it's worth, most of what I've seen ship in Mac Pros from 2008 to present have been WD drives. My 2008 MP came with a 320GB Caviar SE16 (which later later got rebranded as a Caviar Blue). The 2009 machines that a couple of my friends have came with Caviar Blacks. I'm not sure of there's any sort of consistency with what they use, however.
 
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