Anyone got any advise on hard drives?
Hi guys,
i'm a newbee so sorry for any ignorance! I'm looking to buy a second hard drive for my macpro and really don't know where to start, any advice would really be helpfull. I've had a look at the Seagate Barracuda 750GB but like i said i am really unsure.
It's basically for video editing and music mixing so i want a lot of storage but good speed at the same time! (Greedy i know!)
Have a look at this link at let me know what you think.
http://www.macupgrades.co.uk/store/productinfo.php?productsid=392
Thanks in advance
MacPro Mac OS X (10.4.9)
What hatter said! If you definitely want to implement RAID I'd lean toward the Western Digital RE2. Seagate have discontinued the MaXLine range of drives since taking over Maxtor… idiots!
However, the MaXLine Pro can be had quite cheaply these days and is better suited bot both RAID and single drive use. It's a beter choice if you aren't sure if you want RAID or not as it uses a compressed error recovery rather than the truncated one in the RAID Edition drives from WD.
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