Samsung Spinpoint F1 750 with Nvidia 8800?

[Beardy man]

There seem to be a few reports of problems running 750gb F1 Spinpoints with Nvidia chipsets. Does this apply to us with the 8800 or is it a Windows thing?

Anyone out there happily running a MacPro (08) with an 8800 and F1 spinpoints?

 

[Cromulent]

There seem to be a few reports of problems running 750gb F1 Spinpoints with Nvidia chipsets. Does this apply to us with the 8800 or is it a Windows thing?

Anyone out there happily running a MacPro (08) with an 8800 and F1 spinpoints?

Mac Pros do not use Nvidia chipsets (it is refering to the motherboard, not the graphics card).

 

[Beardy man]

Good grief - Quick reply!

Thanks for that, I'll go ahead and order.

Cheers

Beardy

 

[surflordca]

Mac Pros do not use Nvidia chipsets (it is refering to the motherboard, not the graphics card).

Am I ever glad you said that. I just came home with 2 Samsung 750 gig drives with 32MB cache. I am in Canada and I paid $147.99 each. Not a bad deal.

 

[ray_uk]

Yeah, I'm very close to getting myself one of the new Mac Pro's any day now and I will be getting 2 Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB HDD's. Possibly a 150GB Raptor to boot from.

 

[kcdude]

I'm running two of them with zero problems

 

[johny5]

I have one as my system drive and its soooooo much quicker than the stock drive

 

[snagitseven]

Can't comment on the 750GB drives but I have 3 of the 1TB F1's and they are fast and extremely quiet. Nary an issue with any of them. Just over 100 on the disk test in XBench.

 

[big dainjerus]

Can't comment on the 750GB drives but I have 3 of the 1TB F1's and they are fast and extremely quiet. Nary an issue with any of them. Just over 100 on the disk test in XBench.

I dream of getting 4 1 tbs and putting them in, if money weren't an issue or the whole gb/per dollar ratio equation thing, would this be better than getting maybe two 750s and two 1 tbs? Are they more likely to fail because they are larger (and I guess newer?) than the 750s? Or will they run better (noticeably?) and I should just go for the 4 piece big d style?