System drive recommendations for G5

[John Foley]

250 GB SATA drives are under $100 these days and are perfect for a boot drive. I’d keep the 160 as a second storage drive for Final Cut Studio applications content.

Personally, I don’t like Maxtor drives but any other Seagate, Hitachi or Western Digital drive is acceptable.

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[Jerry Hofmann]

If it were me, I’d be looking at the Segate ES series SATA’s… they are enterprise class drives, and don’t cost much more than the others… they are extremely fast and a very sweet spot in pricing for this class of drive.

Jerry

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Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D

[Jerry Hofmann]

https://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101921

This one is 750gigs, but they come in smaller capacities if you want to spend less…

Jerry

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Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D

[Jeff Carpenter]

Stick with a 250 or 300 GB drive. It’s best to keep the boot drive (somewhat) small. Your media and other large files can be on other drives.

By keeping the boot drive smaller it’s faster for the OS to keep track of and access different parts of the programs its running.

[Jack Fox]

Is this just as good with less fat:

Seagate Barracuda ES ST3400620NS 400GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache

Thanks,

jmf

[Jerry Hofmann]

Jeff, I’ve never heard anyone say this before… do you have some sort of evidence or empirical data posted on the Internet that backs this up? I’ve just never heard of such a thing.

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer

Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here

Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D

[Steve Goldberg]

Is this drive good for the MacPro as well, or do I need something different?

Thanks,

Steve