Harddrive question - while we wait for it to arrive

There is no need to move the stock hard drive. Just put the new one in another slot, format it and install OS X (and set the new drive as the startup drive). Then either reformat the stock drive, or just use bootcamp to partition it, and install Vista.

 

I could be wrong, but I don't think the Mac Pro cares which drive you install OS X on. It may matter which OS boots by default.

I have the 320g Mac OS X in drive one, an 80g windows in drive two, two 500g HSPF drives in drive 3 and 4. If that helps.

P6

 

I have a question: I was thinking of splitting my 750 F1 in half, with the first half for Vista and the second half as a partition both OSX and Vista can easily read. So my question is, what file format can Vista and OSX easily read?

 

NTFS. You won't be able to write to it in OS X though.

 

Not by default, but third parties made something that allows it, albit slow write last time I checked.

 

I wonder if there is a way to mount it as a network drive so you can access it using Samba...

 

dose vmware fusion work? I though it said some where you can copy between the 2 os?

 

I didn´t want to start a new thread, my question seems to fit the thread title:

I´m a bit confused about what kind of harddrive I need to buy for the new Mac Pro. In the manual it sais "SATA 3Gb/s"

When I look on the web for harddrives, it sais for example: "SATA-300" or "S-ATA II 300MB/s"
I assume, that´s alright. But I wanted to ask any way.


I intend to buy two of this one and put them into my Mac Pro in software RAID 0 configuration, sorry the page is in German:
http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-T166-S...Y/ref=pd_sbs_ce?ie=UTF8&qid=1202393160&sr=1-4