Question... for those that have received the new MacPro, what brand (Segate, Hitachi, etc...) of harddrive is Apple supplying? Specifically for the 500GB option...
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Hard Drive Brand in New MacPro
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I'd like to know about the 500MB disk too as I ordered that one - I'm regretting it now as for the same increase in cost over the 360MD disk I could have kept that and got a new 500MB spinpoint F1.
I BELIEVE it's a seagate, but our rep for the store hasn't contacted us yet. Though in all honesty you're better off getting an aftermarket drive.
I tried getting this information out of Apple yesterday and their response was basically "we don't know".
Actually, the rep was pretty sure that they are using Seagate drives in the Mac Pro across all sizes (320/500/750/1000GB) at the moment, but this cannot be guaranteed since they source their drives from multiple manufacturers and the drives used can change without notice.
Actually, the rep was pretty sure that they are using Seagate drives in the Mac Pro across all sizes (320/500/750/1000GB) at the moment, but this cannot be guaranteed since they source their drives from multiple manufacturers and the drives used can change without notice.
Thanks for the info. So this is the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 series.
The 7200.11 has much better performance (surpassing the Raptors, according to barefeats), which is what I was hoping for. Seems that it is best to get stock drives and do the upgrades yourself.
http://www.barefeats.com/hard94.html
"AND THE WINNER IS....
... the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 One Terabyte 3G SATA drive (ST31000340AS). It out-performed the other three 1TB drives in 7 out of 8 tests. It's pretty amazing to see a 7200rpm drive transfer at over 100 megabytes per second. Eat your heart out, Raptor 10Ks!"
For Apple's 1TB upgrade option, it seems unlikely that a Western Digital drive would be used since AFAIK they do not offer a 32MB cache 1TB drive and that would conflict with Apple's stated spec of 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 32MB cache. That doesn't rule out the possibility that the Hitachi 7K1000 might be used over the Seagate 7200.11 1TB, however, since both of those have a 32MB cache.
My Mac Pro with a 1TB drive upgrade is set to arrive by next Friday and I can post back with my drive model if anyone is interested.
The barefeats review, while accurate for the drives tested, didn't test *all* competitive drives.
The Western Digital 750GB "RE2" model is much faster than the Seagate 7200.11, according to this review, even though it's an older drive with smaller cache.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13440/5
The review shows just about all of the competitive drives in the 500GB - 1TB size.
Note that the RE2 is a rather expensive enterprise-class drive, but it is very, very fast. See p. 5 of the review how it compares on boot times (for Windows, at least). It's at least 30% faster than the Barracuda 7200.11. And File Copy test on p. 6... again, RE2 is at the top.
Even in this more recent review of the RE2-GP (a slow drive), the original RE2 still stacks up at the top.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13578/5
The Western Digital 750GB "RE2" model is much faster than the Seagate 7200.11, according to this review, even though it's an older drive with smaller cache.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13440/5
The review shows just about all of the competitive drives in the 500GB - 1TB size.
Note that the RE2 is a rather expensive enterprise-class drive, but it is very, very fast. See p. 5 of the review how it compares on boot times (for Windows, at least). It's at least 30% faster than the Barracuda 7200.11. And File Copy test on p. 6... again, RE2 is at the top.
Even in this more recent review of the RE2-GP (a slow drive), the original RE2 still stacks up at the top.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13578/5
Here's another review:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html?modelx=33&model1=684&model2=1016&chart=40
This time we're comparing the WD RE2 to the stock 320GB Seagate 7200.10 referenced above.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html?modelx=33&model1=684&model2=1016&chart=40
This time we're comparing the WD RE2 to the stock 320GB Seagate 7200.10 referenced above.
hi, I have the ST3500630AS P on my mac pro, that model have the seagate recent issues? my serial number is Serial Number: 9QG8S0KV
Is good or bad??? I dont feel any problem...
thanks
A litle googeling on your part and you could have had the information almost instantaneously.
Well Seagate says the drive isn't affected anyway.
"1 9QG8S0KV Drive is not affected. No action required."
See for your self:
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931
And click the link "3. Click here to use the serial number check utility."
thanks