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Hard Drive Recommendations?

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ILikeTurtles

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I have an (almost) 3 year old aluminum 24" iMac that just had a hard drive failure. I don't have Apple Care. I do know someone who can install a new drive for me, but I have no idea which drive to purchase. I'd like to have a 1 terabyte drive, something pretty quite and reliable.

Any recommendations would be very appreciated.
 
You may or may not be aware, but due to the extreme flooding in Thailand, hard drive prices have more then doubled within the past few months. A good reliable 1TB drive would be a Western Digital Black drive.

AM
 
Yeah this is the absolute worst possible time to buy a hard drive, prices are up over 200% in some cases.
 
On the bright side, with drive prices dropping in general over time, it will still cost less to buy a replacement drive now than it would have when your computer was new.
 
WD Caviar Black or a Seagate. Can't go wrong either way but if you can I definitely recommend holding off as long as possible while the supply chain gets their ducks back in a row after the Thailand flooding.
 
ashman70 said:
You may or may not be aware, but due to the extreme flooding in Thailand, hard drive prices have more then doubled within the past few months. A good reliable 1TB drive would be a Western Digital Black drive.

AM
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Would this work?

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
 
WD Black or Hitachi 7K3000 series. Dont buy GREEN disk for system partition. I would also consider SSD (Samsung 830 series, Intel) for system drive and external FW800 or Thunderbolt interface for data. I use older Samsung SSD 470 series for system in my mac mini and 320gb WD Scorpio Black via FW for data.
 
ILikeTurtles said:
Would this work?

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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Yes that would work, great drive.

Also, all the rhetoric about Green drives is, at least in my experience, unfounded. I have a NAS with 6x1.5GB WD Green drives, and over the past two years, not one problem of failure. I also have a storage server with 8x2TB WD Green drives, not one issue in the past year.

AM
 
I'll bet this works like gas prices - something made them go from $2 to $5 a gallon, then it never went below $3.50 again.
 
I'd buy an ssd and then get a external hard drive as your backup. ssds are much more reliable, and that way with an external you can easily upgrade it whenever you need to. If you get an external with firewire it wil be plenty fast still
 
DisMyMac said:
I'll bet this works like gas prices - something made them go from $2 to $5 a gallon, then it never went below $3.50 again.
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No it doesn't. Gasoline is a limited resource, disk drives in the absence of flooding isn't. I paid $25 per megabyte for my first hard drive back when I was paying $1/gallon for gas. If gas prices followed what I'd pay for a hard drive today even with the flooding ($190 for 2 terabytes or $0.01 per megabyte) I could fill my gas tank for under three cents!
 
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