Best Hard Drive Brand?

Hi, I just got the new aluminum Macbook and I want to upgrade my hard drive from 160 GB. I was wondering what the best hard drive brands are out there if anyone knows? Also, will there be any complications with Applecare? I.e. me having to put the old hard drive in if I need to send the computer in (which I heard somewhere) or voiding my warranty? (I figure any problems that arise regarding the hard drive (replacement) would not be covered under Applecare, but anyone know about my first two questions?)

Okay, thank you all so much for your answers; I appreciate it. I also wanted to know (I've never upgraded my laptop before) what size (2.5 in?) I need to get and what size mb? B/c I've been seeing those listed too, and I don't want to get something that's going to be slower. Thank you so much for your help!

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I have all my internal and external disks journaled and haven't noticed any adverse effects from this.
I do get occasional dropped frames (0-6-10 frames per hour) but I think journaling does not cause them. Some tapes have 0 dropped frames while some tapes have a few so I think the tape and bad spots on the tape play a much bigger role there.
Sure, it would be very interesting to run a test by importing a few tapes a few times with journaling on and off and then compare the amount of dropped frames. ...but there are so many other variables (the HD's fragmentation and self calibration, network activity, etc) that I haven't bothered to do this...
Journaling does need a minor overhead but AFAIK this is neglible with modern HDs with big caches and iMovie work which needs 3.6 MB/s (in practice this must be doubled to at least 7 MB/s to take care of occasional hiccups in the system).
I prefer the slight added robustness at the expense of minimal speed decrease that journaling offers.
But in the end I think this does not matter much either way. I'd hope some magazine runs a carefully planned test about this.

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Has anyone determined what the best external hard drive is for use with Time Machine? Is there a particular one that works exceptionally well with Time Machine, or is it much of a muchness?
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I can't tell you if it is the "best" hard drive for you to use with TM, but I'm quite happy with the 500 GB Buffalo Technology DriveStation Combo TurboUSB I bought recently. It is quiet, quite inexpensive for the capacity (I paid about $120 for one on sale at Fry's), & completely compatible with OS X & TM.
Best of all for me, it automatically powers down when my iMac sleeps. It also spins down after a time if the Mac's Energy Saver preference "Put hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" is checked; otherwise it remains spun up until the Mac is put to sleep or switched off.
It comes with "Turbo" USB & Memeo "AutoBackup" software, neither of which I installed. (The box didn't claim these extras came in a Mac version but both Mac & Windows versions were included on the CD.) Out-of-the-box, I reformatted the drive with the Apple Partition Map scheme & two partitions, a 160 GB one for cloning my internal drive & the rest for TM. The drive works perfectly for both uses & seems quite fast, as one would expect from a 7200 rpm SATA drive.

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Michael Conniff wrote:
The most recent is 1TB, and cost about the same as the previous one which was 500GB. The first d2 was only a little cheaper and was 60GB!
Same experience here! They keep the price about the same but you get double the storage, so the price of storage has been going down big time! But now I find myself ******* after Drobo Hey, that editor whacked me for "l u s t i n g" that isn't foul language is it?
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Hi all,
I'm about to get a Mac Pro, and I was wondering a bit about the best hard drive set up for running Logic Pro.
1. Should I go with Western Digital Caviar SE ? Noise is a primary issue, I'd like them to be as silent as possible. Could anybody tell me their experiences with this disc?.. I also hear that Samsungs Spinpoint are almost silent. Any truth to this? (I want my discs in sizes of 500Gb.)
2. Is this a good setup:
D1: Mac OS, Logic Pro
D2: Audio for Logic Pro
D3: Sample libraries, including direct from disc streaming.
3. I seem to remember from another post that someone wrote that raiding discs could actually decrease performance when working with audio. Is this the case?
Thanks,
Curvebender.
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curvebender wrote:
2. Is this a good setup:
D1: Mac OS, Logic Pro
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D3: Sample libraries, including direct from disc streaming.
Yes, excellent way to go. One suggestion: on your sample or audio drive, or an external FW, install a basic system + Logic app only. This enables you to have another system to boot from in case of trouble, or you can use it as a test bed for future updates etc. without affecting your primary system. You'd only boot into this drive in case of problems or for testing. I currently have Leopard running on one drive to test it out as I don't want to move to 10.5.x yet.

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You posted this same question 24 hours ago, which has a reply. Did you have questions on that answer or did you want further discussion? You could reply to that thread, there's no need to start a new thread.

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I bought a 80GB Toshiba for my Pismo. It seems to work well. I believe the largest drive that will be fully recognized is a 120GB drive.
Here's a good place to see your options. Go to this web page at OWC and get a listing of your upgrade options for your Mac model.
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/index.cfm?StartOver=1&TI=5006
You can get the product models and specs, and shop around, but OWC has pretty good prices.

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Yes there is and SSD for your Mac. I just ordered an SSD for a MacBook 6,1 from OWC. http://www.macsales.com/
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I ordered the DIY Upgrade Bundle: Mercury Electa 3G SSD.
That MacBook is only capable of 3 GB/s so the 6G SSDs are overkill.
I recently upgraded the memory from 2 GB to 8 GB. It cut the boot time by a factor of three. That is only a $100 upgrade.

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Hey,
I know this question may be posted quite frequently, but I can't seem to find a definitive answer.
I plan on getting one 500gb hd from mac when I buy my pro ( I will use this drive as my boot drive). Then buy three aditional 500gb hard dirves from other world computing. These three hard dirves will all be striped in a RAID 0. Until this point I planned on purchasing three maxtor maxline 500's. But I am not completely sure this will be best for my set up.
* I plan on using this computer for digital media content, ie. Shake, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Color. I also want to eventually be importing and editing HD footage.
So, whats the best hard drive I can buy three of to stripe together in a RAID 0 in my Mac Pro?
Thank you in advance for your help.
powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.10) getting mac pro

You'll get get different people giving you different responses based in their personal preferences. Ultimately though, there are realistically only 3 main contenders when it comes to the 500GB drive which are…
- Maxtor MaXLine
- Seagate Barracuda ES
- Western Digital RE2
The Maxtor is an extremely proficient all-round drive but does tend to run a little hot. Uncomfortably hot for some though I've found that my MaXLine IIIs, which run at similar temperatures to be just fine. One big downside to this drive is that Maxtor/Seagate no longer manufacture this drive. These drives are the small file access kings in my opinion which makes them fantastic boot/small file scratch drives like for Photoshop.
The Seagate drives really suck at small file, fast access performance so that make really poor boot/general use drives. However, they excel at large file sustained transfers which should help with your video editing.
Finally The Western Digital drives are the queitest and coolest of the bunch. Again they're a good all-round performer and are the favourite of many. Having the least experience with these I can't say too much of their performance.

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Hello,
I am considering adding a second hard drive to my blue and white g3. It currently has the original Quantum 12GB Ultra ATA/33 hard disk (ATA 33 is capable of about 33 MB/s).
I would install a FirmTek SeriTek/1S2 card (2 Internal SATA Ports) and then I would add a 160 GIG or a 250 GIG Maxtor hard drive. The hard drive would probably be a Maxtor DiamondMax 10, or a Maxtor MaXLine III. I will also consider the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 as well. I think all these drives are 7200RPM.
The final result will be that my G3 will have two hard drives, the original 12GB Ultra ATA/33 and also a 160 GIG 7200RPM drive.
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I am currently using OS9 however I will be moving to OS10.1.5 soon and then perhaps to OS 10.4 panther later.
Should I put the OS on the original 12GB Ultra ATA/33 or on the new 160 GIG 7200RPM drive?
How about the applications? Which drive should they be stored on?
My main programs are the Adobe Creative Suite programs (Photoshop and Illustrator) as well as Macromedia Dreamweaver.
If my OS and apps are more than 12 GIGS and they are unable to fit on the 12GIG drive together, should I put the OS and apps on the larger 160 GIG drive and not use the 12GIG drive at all? Or does it make more sense to use the 12 GIG drive for just the OS and then the 160GIG drive for the apps and everything else (such as my stock photo collection)? Should I partition the 160 GIG drive?
Thank you for any advice.
PS Does any one know of a place to buy a SATA drive such as a Maxtor MaXLine III for a good price? Are Maxtor DiamondMax 10 as reliable as Maxtor MaXLine III? Is Maxtor MaXLine III worth the cost difference? Or would anyone recommend any other good brand of a hard drive? I will need about 160 GIGs or maybe 250. Thank you.

...Should I partition the 250 GIG drive as mentioned in my original post (system and apps in one partition and data in another all on the same drive)? Or is it OK to leave it as one large volume?...
Partitioning the drive "half-and-half" would probably be a good idea.
...What utility should I use to partition it if I decide to partition?...
Disk Utility can do that, just make sure to do the partitioning when you first install the drive.
... I will also need a good ATA card that will work with both OS9 and OS10- any recommendations?...
I have one of these and it has been working well.
It is $60, which is the lowest price I know of for a Mac card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816123110
...could anyone recommend a good ATA 250 GIG hard drive (PATA - not SATA) for the purpose of graphic design applications (photoshop and illustrator)?...
Any name brand drive should be fine (Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor, etc.).
Stay away from PC-branded drives though (Dell, etc.),
some don't work on Macs.
Some drives in the 250GB size range have 16MB of cache, that and 7200RPM would have the best performance, but might be overkill considering the PCI speed bug (it wouldn't hurt though).
Note: Most regular ATA cards are 33MHz only.

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Just had to spend much $$$ for recovery of data from a 3 TB hard drive....NOW....I want to know the best solution to make sure this does NOT happen again. I would assume it to be a RAID solution but know very little about that other than multiple hard drives capturing the same data as a redundant system. Any recommendations here...at this point, money is not the main concern but secure data..
I am thinking anywhere from a 3 TB to a 8 TB solution...
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The theory and practice of backing up mission critical data have not changed in decades. As Luis says, redundant is not that same as protected. If your RAID is sitting next to your computer and your office is burglarized or destroyed, your backup is gone, too, which is the same as not having one. Your backups must be solid and offsite to be considered legitimate.
However, having a redundant RAID rack for backup is not a bad idea by itself. You just need to have it on your network and in another physical location.
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Hi corkscrew,
Click on blue apple on top left corner > about the mac > and click more info on that window.
After it open another window (system profiler) > click Serial-ATA at the left portion, and it will open the info of your HD.
And it will open info similar to this:
Intel ICH7-M AHCI:
Vendor: Intel
Product: ICH7-M AHCI
Speed: 1.5 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported
ST910021AS:
Capacity: 93.16 GB
Model: ST910021AS
Revision: 3.04
Serial Number: 1MH00DM9
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Copy the model number and search that on google or other search engine, and it will provide you link to the HD info.
If you don't need fast HD and need bigger capacity, upgrade with one like 200GB or 250GB with 5400 rpm (macbook default factory HD rpm), or if you need faster HD, try to get the 7200 rpm, I recommend the 160gb HD internal SATA 2.5" form factor 7200 rpm like one from Seagate.
But whichever you choose, check their sites and compare the price/GB and warranty length period.
Good Luck.

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