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Choice of new internal SATA drive for MacPro? and sata raid controller
Buying a new internal drive cuz I don’t want to clean up the others for a new project. Yeah, it’s like buying new clothes so you don’t have to do laundry.
I do HD, but my external G-Raid usually keeps up just fine even on FW800. That said, I’d still like a decent inernal sata drive. I can only support 3Mb/sec on this old 2007 MacPro, not the 6Mb drives.
I was looking at getting a 2TB Seagate or WD drive. Hitachi has some bad reviews (and yeah that’s probably what’s in the G-Raid). The seagates are expensive for 7200 RPMs. And the WD Green seem like a good deal except when I read they won’t go to sleep in Mac Pro. WTH?
I’d love to know anyone’s preference or experiences.
Also, I’d like to get a sata raid controller for the G-Raid to get more speed out of it than just an external FW800 connection. Any opinions?
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I wouldn’t use WD green HD’s for media storage, or a system drive in an editing system, too slow. Go with the black.
As far as reviews of Hitachi and Seagate drives, what I have read is exactly opposite of what you read.
My experience with WD Black and the Hitachi 7200 rpm HD’s in the 1TB size, installed in the same machine, has been that both brands have worked fine, and the Hitachi’s might be a little quieter.Scott Sheriff
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It seems the 2tb hitachi and WD drives seem to have a reliability issue. I see a lot of postings from people that bought multiple and 1 out if 4 or 5 would be DOA or die in a week, etc. The 2tb tech may just not be so reliable yet or it’s a quality control issue. I think I’m going withthe 1.5 TB this time around. They’re a lower cost per gig as well. Probably a WD black.
Any opinions on a esata raid controller card?
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Frys 2tb Hitachi $99 this week.
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Got a Frys down the street so maybe it’s worth a try. I read that they run really hot though.
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[Bret Williams] “the WD Green seem like a good deal except when I read they won’t go to sleep in Mac Pro”
They will go to sleep on ANY computer not just MacPros. Thats whey they are “Green” they save energy by spinning down when not. Unfortunately its not something you can override in system preferences its built into the drive itself.
Other then that there are really only two types of hard drives. Hard drives that have failed and hard drives that will fail. They all die so just be sure to back up.
**Hindsight is always 1080p**
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I recently bought 2 Hitachi 2tb drive. Both DOA. Looking at the flimsy foil packing I noticed some marks and a small tear over the circuit board area. Sure enough the very exposed and extremely fragile circuit boards were damaged. All bad reports I’ve read about these drive failures have been DOA.
After some discussion with Hitachi and a reluctant supplier they were replaced. The replacement drives were carefully inspected before leaving the shop and installed and run okay.
The way these drives are designed with such fragile boards Hitachi would probably do themselves and their reputation a favour by using sturdier packaging.
Check them carefully before installing and they should be fine.
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