What Hard Drive should I buy ? :(

Seagate has a five year warranty. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148274

The WD Greenpower drives use up a little less energy and are quieter. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136151

Really, there isn't too much of a difference between different hard drives. The technology is pretty much the same, so it is just a matter of finding a good warranty, price and any special features.

 

The Spinpoint F1 is a popular choice amongst my friends who have Mac Pros.

 

I have two Sammy F1 750s. I am very happy with them. No problems and very quiet!

 

YES Cancel your order, do it Now!
If you want 1TB, go for the samsung or the western digital green drive.
I just got my mac pro a little over a week ago. I just placed a order to owc for the western digital 640GB. I have seen pretty good reviews for this drive.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western Digital/WD6400AAKS/

More mac pro compatible hard drive choices from owc
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/sata/mac-pro


Just about any drive you choose, will be faster and cheaper than apple's.

 

using a UPS with my computer and a couple of WD caviars, ive never experienced any errors.

make sure you do have a UPS if you want to keep your data safe.

 

WD GP uses less energy and is quieter because it does not spin the drive as fast. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but WD is a tad shady when they say it's "7200 class performance", when it's not as fast in actual data transfer or seek time as any 7200 drive of the same size. It's probably as fast as smaller 7200 drives. They don't even say how fast it spins, it looks like it's more or less a 5400.

 

I ordered this as my boot drive and thus far it has been making this high pitched whiny sound. Like the needle is scratching along the disk or something. Like nails on a chalkboard. Very high frequency type sound. I called OWC and the guy told me that sometimes it takes the drives a little while to "break in", and that if it didn't correct itself after a week that I need to get a replacement.

Anyone else have this problem?

 

Most of the benchmarks I have seen put it within about 5-10% of other 1TB 7200rpm drives. Generally, it seems to be faster than the 7200rpm drives of 1 generation ago and slower than most current 7200rpm drives. If the OP would seriously need a Seagate 7200.11 over a 7200.10 because of speed, this is important. Otherwise it makes no difference.

I wouldn't recommend putting the OS on it, but other than that it is fine.

 

If i understood correctly, that's called seek noise, and there is not break in period...I had 2 WD that had that scratchy sound, nothing wrong with the drives, just noisy.

 

Independently of reading macrumors, I just ordered online that 1tb seagate drive, which I assume is the as the one mentioned a few times earlier, can anyone vouch for the quality of it? Im planning on using it solely as my "media disk"

 

There's a 1.5 TB Seagate coming out next month...

 

Ya, if you want drives and don't need them now, either wait for the above, or wait for the above so as to hopefully drop the "smaller" drive prices.

 

I can vouch for Seagate drives. From the countless threads I've read here and away, they seem more reliable. A couple drives are faster, but less reliable. That is what's important. No drive is infallable, but I have my money on Seagates.

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=513132

 

My advice:

Both WD and Seagates are fine drives.

What kills the drive is the shipping and handling by UPS. However, on a $50 drives, it might not be worth while to go by air. But on a $200 1TB drive, you do not want to take any chance and ship them by air and preferably FedEx.

 

Agreed. UPS lost my one of my shipment and broke another shipment once. I'd prefer FedEx or DHL if possible.

 

I have 3 WD Green 1TB drives and find them very quiet. I'll take a slower drive that is quiet any day to a fast and loud drive.

 

see above: I also was able to get them on sale at Fry's for $169.00 each (Microcenter also sometimes have them on sale at this price).

 

Samsung F1 Spinpoint. Best price around. Great drives.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Samsung/HD103UJ/

 

+1 on Samsungs

 

Western Digital 750 gig AAKS.

 

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Yes that hard drive looks awesome!!
but you know the devices this days are complicated!! LOL
butt no your not an idiot the device is awesome!!
i used it for mine too and it works great!!
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