Raptor 150GB SATA drive on MacPro?

[Mr.Gadget]

Is there any reason why I could not run my 150GB 10K SATA drive on the MacPro?
I also have a Seagate SATAII 320GB drive and a 160GB Seagate SATA1 drive.

Given this desktop will come with a SATAII drive of 160, 250 or 500, what combo am I looing at for max performance? Maybe get a second matching drive of one of my three drives to make a RAID setup?

Thanks!

 

[NATO]

The Raptor drive will work perfectly in the Mac Pro (using one myself). Daaaamn fast drive

 

[YoNeX]

Dual Raptors in Raid 0 (stripped). Then again you won't know much speed difference. I suggest something along lines of the new perpendicular hardrives with 16mb cache and get how ever big you can afford. 400GB drives are under $120 if you look around, and the new 750GB are down to almost $300. So, go for those drives, instead of spending it on the Raptors.

 

[Mr.Gadget]

Dual Raptors in Raid 0 (stripped). Then again you won't know much speed difference. I suggest something along lines of the new perpendicular hardrives with 16mb cache and get how ever big you can afford. 400GB drives are under $120 if you look around, and the new 750GB are down to almost $300. So, go for those drives, instead of spending it on the Raptors.

750's are that low now days? I'm thinking dual 750 SATAII is the ticket. See, now you are making that much harder for me to decide between MacPro and MacBookPro...

I love having to make that "choice" though!!!!

 

[ebd.i.am]

is there a 10k 16mb or 7200 16mb hdd for macbooks?
or is it all the same for mb/mbp ?

 

[RichP]

I have a Raptor in my G5, and it definitely is faster. I do wonder how it compares to the perpendicular drives though; anyone see any head-to-head comparisons?