MacPro - 750GB hard drives

anyone have anything to say about these 750GB hard drives?
they are pretty big, and i wonder how they are fairing in the a/v
world. i have a couple of MacPro's from last year and want to
fill up the storage bays. i'd like to get the 750's but..,
let me know you're info!
oh, yeah, do you HD editors use the raid card and is it useful?
-thanks

Western Digital drives seem to get better performance on a MacPro, check out the "Expanding your Mac Pro" forum. There are several Mac specific reviews of drives found there (I was a died in the wool Seagate guy, but then I read the reviews):
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1125
Here's something I posted here a few days ago:
If you are going RAID, you might look at the Western Digital RE2 drives, compared to Seagates here (there's a full review somewhere if you search storagereview)
http://www.storagereview.com/ST3750640NS.sr?page=0%2C1 (search in that site for more specifics by RE2)
The neat thing about them is that they will time out after 7 seconds for errors. Bad if using them as single drives, but great for RAID as I've had a lot of Seagate drives taken off-line by the RAID controllers when they took a very long time to respond (due to trying to correct errors).
You might also consider the 3Ware Sidecar:
http://3ware.com/products/Extserialata2-9000.asp
They just had a price reduction to $895 list. A much larger company than probably any Mac controller company.
The neat thing about them is that you can add a BBU (battery backup unit) to the controller for about $100.
This can save you during a power supply failure or a Mac OS crash. It deals with the hard drive's cache memory journaling on a very low level (data isn't really written until its moved to the hard drive from the cache, so you have to worry about that).
I've been using them on the Windows platform for years with zero data loss. Great on the Mac, especially for video use where you need very high data rates.

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    Feature is still there (but buggy if you dismount drive, run Time Machine, mount drive, run Time Machine)
    Have you checked that the drive has not been excluded as part of the migration from old machine to new?
    Open System preferences
    Select Time Machine
    Select Options
    If the drive is in the list 'Exclude these items from backups'; then select the drive, select minus and select save
    Now; if that is the case the initial calculation for that drive next occasion Time Machine runs will be ALL the in-scope contents of the disk whether already backed up or not; so if there is less than this on your TM drive it will start  deleting backups.

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