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What’s the best HDD to order for 17″ MacBook Pro
Do we need the 7200 RPM drive, it comes stock with the 250GB @ 5400rpm
Upgrade for $50.00 to the 200Gb @ 7200rpm
or
Upgrade for $75.00 to the 300GB @ 4200rpm.
Also where is the best place to get ram for these units?
Thanks for your input!
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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Rennie, I would get the speed rather than the storage. Hard drives are the biggest bottle neck on data these days. Processors and ram are speedy but the HDs really haven’t changed that much in the last few years. If you can get definitely stay away from 4200. It is painful. I know from experience.
David Wegley
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Phoenix, AZ
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[Rennie Klymyk] “Also where is the best place to get ram for these units? “
OWC. They ship worldwide.
Crucial are also excellent resellers.
Ben
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Thanks for the replies. A musician friend of mine who is on the move a lot is putting together a DAW and looking at the MacBook Pro. The local dealer was saying the 2.5″ drives don’t benefit so much from increased speed because the laser doesn’t need to travel as far as the 3.5″ drives. Also the 7200 rpm drives use more power.
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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Hi Renny,
I agree with that. Your laptop will works fine with a slower HD and will need less power. For the external HDs with the footage, go for the 7.200rpm.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
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[Rennie Klymyk] “because the laser doesn’t need to travel as far as the 3.5″ drives”
umm… hard drives do not have lasers.
When doing video you want to keep the media you are editing on an external drive (preferably esata for a laptop) If you do this all your system drive will have to do is run the OS and the application, and a 5400 rpm drive is plenty fast for that. Now your media drives definitely go with faster drive, and the reason I said preferably esata for a laptop is because otherwise the drive will still outperform the connection to the computer.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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[Zane Barker] “[Rennie Klymyk] “because the laser doesn’t need to travel as far as the 3.5″ drives”
umm… hard drives do not have lasers.”
OK Ok, I should have said heads but the travel issue is the same and it made sense to me.
I was mainly trying to see if anyone knew of any issues with the larger, slower drives as dollar wise it would make sense to get the 300GB drive. It just seems 4200 rpm is kinda slow.
My good buddy would have done better to get advice on this from someone else as I’ve never owned a laptop. It seems every time I go to buy one I come home with a more needed new tower. 🙁
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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