Best Hard Drive Size, Brand, etc.

I just purchased two Seagate 400gb external firewire hard drives (model#ST3400801CB-RK), one for storing my analog video footage and allowing me to have several imovie projects available at one time, and the second hard drive for backing up my 80gb mac mini and the first 400gb hard drive. I haven't opened the boxes yet, so my question is: do you have a recommendation as to the best hard drives out there for my uses? I don't want to purchase the wrong thing. If you think Seagate is good, I'll keep what I bought and start my movie projects this weekend. Thank you for your time.

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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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 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.

O.S. / Hard Drive Size for NIO Server/Client's load testing...

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I am currently load testing a NIO Server/Client's to see what would be the maximum number of connections that could reached, using the following PC: P4, 3GHz, 1GB RAM, Windows XP, SP2, 110 GB Hard Drive.
However, I would like to test the Server/Client performance on different OS's:
Which would be the best possible option from the following:
1. Partition my current drive, (using e.g. Partition Magic), to e.g.
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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.)
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Curvebender.
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curvebender wrote:
2. Is this a good setup:
D1: Mac OS, Logic Pro
D2: Audio for Logic Pro
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.

Maximum hard drive size for upgrading a dv6375ea?

Hello to all,
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Has anyone upgraded their hard drive or does anybody know of a technical value that I should try?
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You can install as large a drive as you can find as long as it is SATA and 2.5" wide and 9.5 mm thick. SATA drives have no BIOS size limit. However, some have occasionally reported issues with 500 gig drives and 7200 rpm drives. I can therefore tell you with 100% certainty you can install a 320 gig 5400 rpm drive in your laptop. My favorite website for laptop hard drives is newegg.com. Don't buy from HP parts; it will cost way too much. You should be able to find the drive I mention for around $80 and laptop drives are also sold at Best Buy, Frys and similar stores.

New computer hard drive size short?

I just received my new iMac 20inch with a 500GB hard drive. But when I went through the set-up process, I noticed that the hard drive size was only 449GB. Is this normal? I have not added any software to the computer outside of what it came with and was wondering if what was included with the computer actually took up 51GB of hard drive space.
iMac A1207 Mac OS X (10.4)

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
This is normal. Hard disks are mis-leadingly sold in decimal notation but data is recorded in binary form (it's in the small print though). My 320Gb drive is 297.9Gb, my 2Gb Nano is 1.86Gb. The approximate conversion calculation goes:
(500 x 10003) / 10243 = 465.66.
Right click on Macintosh HD and choose Get Info and check the Available, Used and Capacity values.
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Hard Drive Size??

So...after much debating, I've decided to go with the 2.2 GHz macbook pro BUT I'm not sure what to do about the hard drive size. Bigger is better I guess (thinking of upgrading to the 160) BUT do I really need it? I will have a decent size music library and picture library but few movies (don't plan to add many if any). I'll have basic apps and a couple of games as well.
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a) Hard drive - yes, get the biggest you reasonably can. They get full faster than you might expect but if you want the machine immediately then 120gb is the only option - you could always add an external later or spend a couple of hundred and get it upgraded (by an Apple Certified Shop if warranty is a concern). You don't NEED it. You'll be fine with 120 but happier with 160. I think
b) With any luck supply will loosen up a bit soon. All three stores in my area were out all this week, now they're in stock.
c) Forum is excruciatingly slow at the moment.
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Best hard drive for use with Time Machine

Hi,
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?
I'm looking for a Firewire 400 & Firewire 800 drive that STAYS ON all the time, and doesn't automatically spin down or spin up like the rubbish WD My Book drives do.

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.
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mende1, greetings:
mende1 wrote:
I don't recommend you to install a hard drive bigger than 2 TB if you are going to install Windows in Boot Camp or you may have problems
The largest 2.5" SATA HDDs of 9.5 mm thickness that I am aware of are 1 TB in capacity. There is a 12.5 mm thick HDD that will fit some MBPs. But I have not seen any of larger capacity.
Are there now 2 TB HDDs available for MBPs? If so, I am interested.
Ciao.
Both OWC and Crucial have SSDs of about 1 TB capacity.
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Maximum hard drive size for 350 MHz slot loading?

Hello,
What is the maximum hard drive size for a 350 MHz slot loading imac?
I am aware of a 128 GB limit on imacs. Does the 128 GB hard drive limit apply to all imac CRTs or just the earlier models?
Here are the specs of my imac:
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Yes, the last CRT iMac was in 2001. The first machines with built-in greater than 127 GB support were released in June 2002, as this article explains:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
So all CRT iMacs have that limiation.
http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/
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DV6745us hard drive size max

Does any know the largest internal hard drive size that dv6745us Pavillion has support for in the BIOS? I upgraded from a 250gb to a 320gb but want to go to a 500gb or 640gb. I called HP but they can't tell me what it is. Go figure.

Hi:
No one is going to quote you anything more than what the service manual states, unless they have personally took a gamble and succesfully installed a drive larger than the specs indicated (which is 250 GB).
You have successfully already exceeded that spec.
In theory, a 750 GB HDD should work just fine in your notebook and a 1 TB drive should too if the thickness is the same as a 750 GB or less. Some 1 TB drives are thicker than lesser sized drives and therefore won't fit in the drive bay.
Roll the dice, or wait indefintely for someone to reply that can say for sure whether a larger drive than 320 GB will work or not.
I am pretty confident a larger drive will.
Paul

Max Hard Drive Size....?

recently picked up an emac, after holding out for a 1.42ghz model
anyway, already added a DVD burner and about to add some RAM (currently has 768mb)
the current hard drive is only 80gb - plus its having some issues... after some slow down in using anything on the mac i poked around and found the disk utility is reporting the S.M.A.R.T status as bad...
so i was wanting to replace it due to wanting more storage space, and this has just made me need to do it sooner rather than later.
my main question:
is there a maximum hard drive size the emac will take?
if the mac will take a 750gb drive, and if i can find an IDE drive that big anywhere i would, just i know they are kind of hard to come by... failing that a 500gb IDE drive is easy come by...
will they work?
cheers

is there a maximum hard drive size the emac will take?
No.
will (those considerations) work?
Yes, any IDE/ATA will work in the eMac.
https://eshop.macsales.com/search/3.5InternalIDE/ATA\
Do not get a SATA (Serial ATA) drive as they are not suitable for your eMac.
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UCS C series maximum hard drive size

Looking for info on the maximum hard drive size support on teh UCS C series. I have a C200M2 that I added a 4TB drive, I have updated the server to the latest firmware and BIOS however the server shows the drive size is 2TB.

Hi! and welcome to the community mate!
Here is the table that shows the supported disk's PID for the C200 server:
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Does anyone know what the maximum hard drive size supported by the BIOS for a T400?
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it doesn't exist yet. You can use any sata hdd with 2.5 inch form factor and 9.5 mm thickness.
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