Hey! Looking for a 1 or 2TB HDD to put in my Mac Pro 3,1

Any suggestions? Top tips? Are there any current/modern drives that aren't backwards-compatible? Any good (UK/Europe-based) offers on?
Thanks!

Typing on phone, edits get lost... drives larger than 2.2TB were having trouble and would not work. And no on a green drive for work files, but yes for Time Machine. I use a 1.5TH WD Green that way.
What you left off in origina, post can change everything, what I call "playing 20 questions."
Your WD Black 1 or 1.5 or 2TB for general use, or Hitachi and Seagate or Samsungs.
there is also a 1TB WD 10K VelociRaptor for performance for Photoshop's media or even scratch (but not in same league as SSD)

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The external FW HD is a 1TB bootable clone of my Internal 1 TB boot HDD.
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I power off the external FW HDD and everything starts to work. I get an error about the device going offline, I then power the FW HDD back on and all is good.
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If you recently moved to Snow Leopard you might look for new firmware for your external drive. I would also get DiskWarrior and run that on the external and consider programs like Drive Genius. You might also back it up and wipe it and restore the data. After that I'd consider looking at a new external.
Sleeping drives that take time to spin up after waking....I'd like to learn how to stop that myself. Be sure the Energy Saver in System Preferences is set to not put drives to sleep when possible. Even then my drives will go to sleep and I have up to 6 external added at times and they take quite a while to all spin up. I've never found a way to prevent that.
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Good morning,
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Completely obsolete for people who can afford the latest equipment, perhaps, but for the rest of us still happy with our Standard Definition stuff it's perfectly adequate. Maybe in five year's time, but not yet for me.
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I've got the 2.8 Quad Core, 1TB HDD and 3 Gigs of Ram, 5770 ATI
I work a lot with FCS, Maya and Adobe Products.
I didn't get the top of the line tower as I was hoping with the money I saved I can buy some add-ons. I want to get some RAM, a 2nd monitor and more hard drive space.
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Use one of the other drives in the tower for the scratch and the remaining drive(s) to store projects.
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Hi
Can't seem to get a straight answer to this question anywhere else so am turning to anyone here that can help.
I currently have my original 320 gig drive in my Mac Pro 3.1.
I want to add an SSD and format it so that its the boot drive and contains the programs and nothing else. The 320 gig drive will house all the 'other stuff' (photos, vids etc)
I don't want to migrate anything over - I basically want to start with two empty drives - SSD for boot and programs and 320 Gig drive for stuff.
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There use to be, and still can be, reasons to split the OS and apps from the data drives.
You want speed, then even SATA III with 500MB/sec read/writes, or XP941 with 900MB/sec writes, and 1000MB/sec reads cannot be beat. And you could not fit data onto or justify the cost when an SSD was too small and when 500GB cost $1500.
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But you do this all the time, but just never had a dedicated system boot drive before. When 15K SCSI drives were small and fast and ideal, and higher cost, the whole idea of using cheaper drives for data came to desktop. It was used already before then on other systems for years.
Using the drive bays, SATA II and 250MB/sec is still an improvement. But even new 4TB drives are 150MB/sec and above. Back when 320GB drives were used they were not even able to achieve 100MB/sec, more like 80MB/sec. And SSD has a lot of other benefits. So yes today's SSD will make a difference.
I would just clone to 500GB SSD and try it! your last clean install was less than a year ago and yet still using older drives that are slow. Small SSDs have not without firmware and controller changes in the last two years able to perform as fast as the 250GB and larger. Larger SSD, more channels. An SSD has 4 channels on 128GB but 8 channels on 250GB which can all act simultaneous and concurrently to shovel I/O. Plus near-zero seeks and access times, and 90,000+ I/Os per second.
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Hi guys,
I am looking to upgrade the RAM and Hard Drive in my late-2011 17" Macbook Pro. I've already found the hard drive I want to use, but I don't know as much about RAM, and I'm not sure which 16GB (2 x 8GB) kit would be both compatible and give me the best bang for my buck. I am in Canada so any suggestions linking to Canada Computers or NewEgg would be the best! I'd really appreciate any help.
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will the Air have the horsepower needed.
I do many demanding tasks on my Air and they run surprisingly well.
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concerned about not being able to upgrade the internal components
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