Mac Pro HDD's

[rph105]

Hey there,

Just recently got myself a Mac Pro with the standard 600GB HDD, I'm thinking of buying a 1TB drive to give myself some more space.

I've decided on a Western Digital, 2 models actually and I need some help in deciding which one.

- Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB
- Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB

If anyone can help me out with the pros and cons of each model it would help greatly.

Thanks in advance!

 

[GoCubsGo]

The black is faster, I have the green as a Time Machine drive and it's perfect. The black is best if you're going to use it as a scratch disc. Either one, to be honest, is just fine and I recommend them both.

You failed to say what your needs are so it's hard to really say much more.

I was unaware the MPs had 600 gb drives. I thought they were 640 gb.

 

[gugucom]

As a rule bigger drives are also faster. So in current market conditions 1,5 TB drives are going to be an affordable speed bump.

Personally I tend to the greens because I don't use them for boot drive. Striktly speed wise the blacks are faster. But you could use a green and partition it for fast booting and slower mass storage. This is called short stroking. There is a thread about tis here.

 

[nanofrog]

As a rule bigger drives are also faster. So in current market conditions 1,5 TB drives are going to be an affordable speed bump.

Personally I tend to the greens because I don't use them for boot drive. Striktly speed wise the blacks are faster. But you could use a green and partition it for fast booting and slower mass storage. This is called short stroking. There is a thread about tis here.

As an OS or primary content drive, the Blacks make more sense. The Greens are ideally suited to backup/archival storage, as they're not as fast (this is the area low power & the resulting lower througputs are ideal for). The throughput differences aren't what I'd call drastic, but 10MB/s can make a big difference for certain usages.

In this case, the platter density is the same, so it's the spindle speed that's the primary reason for the difference in throughput.