750 gb HD in iMac??? and Mac Pro's as well

[joshwest]

Hey Guy's i know750 gb HD's have been out on the market for quite a while. I was thinking of picking one up and throwing it in my iMac, but i have heard from several sources they get smoking hot.. Wasnt sure if they are safe because apple hasnt even let it be a BTO option on the iMacs. And also with the release of the Mac Pro they didnt advertise instead of 2tb it would be 3 tb if you had 4-750 hd's. Apple always like to stay ahead with the newest and fastest i just didnt understand why they didnt move with that... Anyone have any idea?

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

I'm pretty sure someon tried the 750gb hard drives in the Mac Pro and found that things stopped working over 2TB.

 

[MovieCutter]

I have 2 750GB Seagates in my Mac Pro. No problems here. Not sure about the iMac as I wouldn't want to spend a day trying to take it apart and put it back together again.

 

[wmmk]

I have 2 750GB Seagates in my Mac Pro. No problems here. Not sure about the iMac as I wouldn't want to spend a day trying to take it apart and put it back together again.

i believe that you can use big drives, as long as the total capacity is less than 2TB. the mainboard can't take any more, or so I hear.

 

[cube]

http://www.barefeats.com/quad07.html

 

[FleurDuMal]

If the Mac Pro can currently only take up to 2TB, would there be anyway that Apple could update firmware or something to raise the maximum possible storage in the future.

 

[cube]

If I understand the barefeats article correctly, 3x750GB 7200.10 RAID 0 works.
That's more than 2 TB.

 

[reubs]

Just out of sheer curiosity, what do you do with 2 TB of storage? The largest HD I've ever had is 160gb, and I can't even get that halfway filled.

 

[FleurDuMal]

Just out of sheer curiosity, what do you do with 2 TB of storage? The largest HD I've ever had is 160gb, and I can't even get that halfway filled.

Well, I rip and handbrake a lot of DVD's, so that takes up a lot of space. Also, I am thinking of storing my CDs in lossless codec. Full size RAW photos also take up a hell of a lot of storage.

 

[Bill Gates]

I don't see why they would get any hotter than usual. What usually affects heat is spindle speed, and they are the typical 7200 RPM. I personally don't like the idea of having 750GB on one drive, since hard drive failures are more common than we'd all like to think. It ought to work fine though.