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looking for good storage
Hello,
I know this is for FCP, but I am looking for the biggest, cheapest
best hard drives for internal use in my Mac Pro. I Have 3 bays open that I want
to dedicate to HD video editing. What brand, speed and models are the best and where can I order?
ThanksJeff
FCS2 / AF CS4
Mac Pro 2 x2.8 Quad Core Intel Xeon
4GB Ram -
4 Replies
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Western Digital Caviar Black
Desktop Hard Drives
1 TB, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 7200 RPMI have three in my Mac Pro, works great.
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Who doesn’t want the “biggest”, and “cheapest” and “best” 🙂
Specifically speaking about hard drives, no matter what brand, what make, or how much it’s praised…all hard drives will fail! I hope you have a raid configured for data protection in mind 🙂
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Ryan writes: Specifically speaking about hard drives, no matter what brand, what make, or how much it’s praised…all hard drives will fail! I hope you have a raid configured for data protection in mind 🙂
i couldnt agree more. with hard drives, best and cheapest don’t work together. the best are the server/enterprise drives. but these cost 2-3 times more than their consumer-level cousins. but they are designed to run 24/7 for 5 years minimum. consumer-level drives aren’t. this is especially important if you are RAIDing these drives together. now that drive manufacturers are “green-washing” their cheapest drives, they are making them incompatible with RAID configurations. ie, if you’re hard drive spins down to save power, it will destabilize the RAID.
i think you’ll get some good suggestions over in the SAN forum. most of us over there have worked (and had failures) with every hard drive and configuration under the sun.
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Eric Hansen – The Audio Visual Plumber – http://www.avplumber.com
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I would suggest the CalDigit products over any standard internal RAID configuration – they have been much more stable in my experience. I have several CalDigit HDPro’s at 6TB configured as RAID-5. Quick data rates in and out, great product.
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