New Hard Drive

[Dr. No]

I am thinking about buying a new hard drive for my G5. Does anyone have a recommendation for a brand?? I am considering Seagate or Hitachi.

Actually, I will be building a RAID 0 array to increase the speed of data access.

 

[seabass069]

Buy the WD 73 gig 10,000 rpm Rapture as your main drive. Then buy a huge 500 gig hitachi drive. The WD will give you very fast input/output.

 

[Bear]

I am thinking about buying a new hard drive for my G5. Does anyone have a recommendation for a brand?? I am considering Seagate or Hitachi.

Either brand is good and would be what I would recommend.

Actually, I will be building a RAID 0 array to increase the speed of data access.

Remember that if one disk fails you will lose all data. Remember to make good backups.

What do you need the speed for?

 

[Dr. No]

Another question- I heard SATA-II drives came out (300Mb/sec). I thought I saw an article on XLR8YourMac that some older G5s have problems with these drives. Is this true?

 

[Malfoy]

Buy the WD 73 gig 10,000 rpm Rapture as your main drive. Then buy a huge 500 gig hitachi drive. The WD will give you very fast input/output.

HOw much faster we talking? I'm thinking about getting another 500 gb to go with the 500 thatll be in the computer. Will it be quick enough to warrant forgoing all the space?

 

[CanadaRAM]

Another question- I heard SATA-II drives came out (300Mb/sec). I thought I saw an article on XLR8YourMac that some older G5s have problems with these drives. Is this true?

The Macs don;t support SATA II or NCQ. The drives are supposed to be backwards compatible however.

Please consider the downside of RAID0 - any error on either of the drives means you lose all data on all drives. The overhead of RAID mostly negates the speed improvement for typicall single-user use. See www.storagereview.com for articles.

You will get as fast if not faster performance simply by splitting your data and your system/ scratch space onto separate drives. The Raptor System drive + Big Data drive is what many production graphic studios prefer.