Westren digital or seagate

I have Westren Digital 250 Scorpio Blue 5400 rpm i want to use this drive and replace it with the 160 in my MBP13. Should I use seagate drive or western Digital

Don't use WD Blue drives or other so-called Green drives. They will not perform well. Personally I prefer Seagate to WD.

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Western Digital or Seagate Barracuda?!

Hi,
I would like to purchase an additional 250gb ATA drive for my 1.25ghz G4 MDD. I previously posted on here regarding the better of the two between the Seagate or Hitach drives, but I have now ruled out the Hitachi. However, I am now divided between the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 and the Western Digital Caviar SE. I would like to know peoples recommendations/experiences with these drives. It really is important that the drive is reliable, fast and also very quiet (all of which these drives claim to be). I did read a review that the Barracuda 7200.10 drive made a pecking noise when being accessed and therefore I would like to know if anyone else has noticed this.
All feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Hi-
The 7200.10 series has been plagued by firmware problems that can cause slow read or write speeds in a Power Mac (or Mac Pro for that matter). Though most reports concern the SATA version, I am concerned with the 7200.10 and the native controller of a Mac. If the drive were the 7200.9, then I give it 5 thumbs up...
I have a WD Caviar in a QS G4. Very nice, very quiet (virtually silent). Makes a small "click" (very small) when sleeping or shutting down, but this is due to the the automatic head park mechanism doing what it was designed to do (nice feature). I really like the drive. You may be interested in this article. The conclusion says it all.

External Hard Drive Western digital or Seagate?

Looking to buy a External Hard drive for my new imac and just wondering anybody had any experience with both these companies and which one would be the best option to go for:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Essential-External-Desktop-Drive/dp/B0047VOGOO/ref= sr_1_18?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1363649454&sr=1-18#productDetai ls
or
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-STCA2000200-Backup-Desktop-Drive/dp/product-desc ription/B0084LZI9U/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=340831031&s=computers

I have/had a WD MyBook Studio Mac Edition. In spite of that moniker, it performed badly on both a PowerPC and and Intel Mac. I stripped the bare WD drive out of the WD enclosure and put it in a a Mercury Elite enclosure that's the model offered just before the one den.thed linked, and it works flawlessly.
The problem is with the WD enclosures, not the drives inside. The same drive that ran hot in the WD enclosure runs just barely warm to the touch in the nice metal OWC case. I now have two WD drives in OWC enclosures and can't complain.
PS: I reformatted the WD drive with Disk Utility after getting it into the OWC case. Either the chipset WD used in teh case was wonky or they used some strange formatting that made it appear only as an non-resolvable alias on the desktop. Now it's fine.

Western Digital or Seagate?

currently own a external WD 1.5TB External for 2 years now and its did good for me,but im getting another one but which brand should i go with and what brand is better?

I second macjack's recommendation for OWC (macsales.com) - excellent enclosure, drive, and quiet.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB

External FW/USB Western Digital, Seagate Disk Drives and 'Sleep' function

As you are aware, most external disk drives be they FW or USB (and irrespective of the manufacturer, save for LaCie) have a 'sleep' function built into their Firmware. In the case of the Western Digital and Seagate Ext FW drives I have, this function cannot be disabled and this per both WD and Seagate.
Unfortunately this is extremely annoying if using Photoshop and Bridge...it takes about ten seconds for each disk to spin up while the latter programs search the drives. (In Windows this can be enabled/disabled. Not so with the Mac O/S I have been told). Multiply this by six of the aforementioned drives and it can be quite time consuming.
Is there an OS-X workaround for this?
Thanks again,
Lyman

I always avoid vendor cases. Might want to look at an Oxford 912 etc, or better yet, why use Firewire when eSATA works so well?

Seagate 500 GB Drive

I have an interesting situation with Seagate 500 GB drive I recently installed in my Sawtooth G4. The drive is a Seagate 7200.10.
My computer recognizes the drive, and really, the drive works. However, If I connect an ultra 133 cable to it, my computer cannot download/convert a music CD from iTunes.....My computer crashes. My computer can read files from this drive, and save to it from applications like Word. iTunes will even playback songs that are downloaded to this drive. So everything works, my computer just won't download to this drive from iTunes.
Now here's what's weird. If I connect this drive to my computer via and old IDE cable, my computer will download to it from iTunes, and it works fine for every application I use. The old cable I am referring to is a 3M IDE cable that reads AWM 2651, VW-1, 105 C, 300 V, 28AWG.
The suspect Ultra Cable reads AWM 20276, VW-1, 80 C, 300 V, 30 AWG.
I connect large drives to the motherboard via a SIIG Ultra ATA controller.
So, can anyone give an explanation for this strange occurrance.
Thanks,
Ray

Hello Ray,
There are a couple of posts on the SIIG card. It may prefer Western Digital to Seagate drives, and it may prefer cable select to master/slave cabling. Mine worked initially when I used already an already formatted drive - I think an ATA-100 Seagate drive with the factory supplied 80 conductor ribbon, but I don't remember for sure. Might have been a mule. Disaster struck when I went to erase and install OSX (Tiger).
Not sure what the diference in cables would be; I think the 80 conductor ATA-100 cables simply supply a ground for each pin.
Hope I'm not leading you astray with a red herring; I still think it's the card, somehow. Don't know how you'd check it. I've used Acard and Sonnet controller cards - and also some awfully raggedy cables - with never a problem.
Regards ..... Jon

How difficult would it be to replace my 250 gb hard drive with a 500 gb hd?

Would it be something that I could do on my own or would I need to take my iMac to the Apple store or other authorized reseller to have upgraded? Any suggested posts, Apple or other, for instructions? What kind of drive would I need to get and what brand would you suggest?
Thanks much!

Hello,
Starting with the iSight version of the G5, Apple redesigned the entire machine in a way that it is now major surgery to replace the hard drive.
It is possible for the end-user to do it. But, the end-user needs to be comfortable with opening the case, and literally removing every part inside the computer to perform the task.
If you want to see what's ahead of you, take a look at these pictures for an idea of what disassembly will be like:
http://www.kodawarisan.com/imacintel/imacintel001.html
Of course, that doesn't show you the method to get everything taken apart. But, it shows you what is in your way.
You can find a large file containing a disassembly guide here:
http://www.baconeggs.co.uk/manuals/index.htm
Understand that you will clearly void your warranty by performing these tasks, and that is a risk you need to be prepared to take.
If you are not comfortable with that, you need to take the machine to an authorized service provider for servicing / upgrading.
As for drives, you need a Serial-ATA (SATA) hard drive. It should be a 7200 R.P.M. drive with at least 8 MB of Cache memory built-in. And, it should be labeled as SATA-150 or SATA-300. Either will work, but you will only get the performance of the SATA-150 drive either way (the 300 will slow to 150 to communicate with your system).
As for brand, I would recommend Western Digital or Seagate. Both are great companies with excellent warranties. Be sure to buy a retail boxed hard drive if you want a warranty. The OEM drives have a 1 year warranty, but that cannot be claimed by an end-user (it is only honored for legitimate OEM system builders).
Retail drives will be very obvious. They'll come in a colorful retail box, and be shrink-wrapped. They'll come with a 3 to 5 year warranty, and the consumer / end-user can claim that warranty directly if needed.
The majority of the hard drives sold in small shops and on the Internet are OEM drives. If one of those fails, the manufacturer will direct you to go to the OEM who sold it to you for replacement. So, basically they are as is if you buy them as a single component. They are only intended to be sold as part of a complete computer or external hard drive package. In that arrangement, the company who produced the finished package would provide their own warranty, and any claims would be between them and the manufacturer.
So, know what you are buying.
I hope this helps.
Let us know if you have other questions.
P.S., if you'd like, go ahead and click the "Helpful" or "Solved" buttons on any of the posts / replies above if you feel they were helpful or adequately answered your question.

Mid 2007 iMac SSD in optical bay - cannot write to last block of device

Hi All,
I've just replaced my optical drive in my 20" mid 2007 iMac (Dual core, 2.4 Ghz, 2 Gb RAM running Mavericks) with a solid state drive (Crucial MX100). The plan is to transfer my boot disk to this drive while keeping my 1 Tb HDD for media and such.
I followed the ifixit guide and it all went smoothly, however when I try to partition or erase the new SSD using Disk Utility, it tells me "Operation failed - cannot write to last block of the device". After googling, I found some answers here that suggested the optical bay cable may be faulty, so I bought a replacement and swapped it in, but no such luck, same problem. I also saw some threads suggesting that the boot disk should be in the original hard drive spot, but since this isn't the boot disk (yet) this shouldn't be the issue.
My computer recognizes the new SSD but won't allow me to partition it. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Thanks!

ds store wrote:
3. The new disk is just bad.
OK. If that's the case, I'll just get another disk.
Lots of problems with that hybrid drives on Mac's on these forums, get another one that's 7,200 RPM and from Western Digital, not Seagate.
With a 7,200 RPM you get more performance across the entire drive, not just what's cached in the small flash portion of the hybrid.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents#/
1. Hybrid drives: I'm on number 8 in 6 different machines, no problems at all, what happens when you try?
2. The OP is not using a Hybrid.
3. Lot's of problems with WD drives not booting on these forums though.

I am unable to open some file because there is "encrypt contents to secure data" attribute applied by me before format my pc

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Hey guys,
So this is follow up from my debarkle with the EDD. I found out my problem with copying files from Mac to EDD and vice versa was a result of a not so good EDD ( i had an apollo hard drive from imation) that was not very compatible with macs. So i did my research and found out that the best hard drives were Western Digital and Seagate. I bought the newest western digital EDD 1TB and formated it to FAT32 and guess what...no problems so far. The only problem is that FAT32 format doesn't copy files larger than about 4 gigs so i couldnt copy a movie from my brothers computer onto my EDD that was 1080p. You could probably resolve that by partitioning a small part of your hard drive in ExFAT? but yeah, hopefully that helped guys.
Aaisha

External hard drive corruption issues

Hey folks. Really not sure what the best place would be for my question, but I'll try here.
I have a 4 year old LaCie external HD with a 160GB capacity. It stores my iPhoto and iTunes libraries for my iBook, along with a few other bits and pieces.
About a year ago, I noticed some of my files were corrupted and couldn't be played. Whenever I tried to open one of those files, the drive would start knocking and whatever program was trying to access the file would need to be Force Quit. Hoping to solve the issue, I moved the data,(or course, getting stuck on corrupted files along the way) erased and reformatted the drive and moved the data back. Unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem.
I have the data backed up on another, newer external drive, but I'm wondering if there's a way to isolate the bad sectors in the old drive so they can't be written to anymore? Should I use Disk Utility and repair the disk?
I know the drive's old and could fail at any time, but I'd like to keep using it as long as possible. Also, when it does finally fail, could I just purchase another hard drive and place it in the enclosure? I suppose I should also note that the FireWire 400 ports don't work on the enclosure. I'm sure it's not a defect, as I accidentally dropped the drive shortly after I'd purchased it. That fall is probably the cause of the corruptions as well =/
The USB port works fine and I haven't been able to test the FireWire 800.
Thanks for any advice y'all have!
~Lyssa

Your drive sounds very sick. I am not sure how likely it is but I would be concerned about your OS becoming seriously corrupted and possibly unbootable as a result of continuing to use this bad external drive.
It would be better if you could test it connected to a non-critical computer.
Do you know the drive specification? - not the make of the box.
Many drives self-repair and also communicate likely future difficulties to the OS but eventually you come to the end of this process.
I am not sure if disk utilities any longer map out bad sectors. Years ago I used a mounting screw that was too long and damaged the magnetic surface. In those days you could manually map out the bad sectors. I then put partitions each side of the mapped out sectors and continued to use the drive for many years.
More recently I had a drive with an intermittent power connection. However even after repairing this and reformatting the drive was never very reliable.
Good drives are relatively inexpensive. You could try a new drive in your box. I always advise buying server quality drives normally identified by a 5 year guarantee. I prefer Western Digital but Seagate also make reliable drives.

Large external HDs not recognized by Windows 7 64-bit

Hi,
I'm trying to see if someone else out there has had this same problem have has been able to solve it.
I have an HP Pavilion DV6 - NQ615AV Entertainment Center PC. I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1.
I have several external USB hard drives (80GB, 320GB, 500GB) and several USB memory keys (2GB, 14GB) that work well with this computer.
I recently got a couple of 1TB and 2TB external USB hard drives, and they are not being recognized by this computer. The hard drives work well with other systems (Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows XP), so they are ok. The drives also work on my computer if I boot from an Ubuntu memory key.
The behavior I see is that Windows gives the usual "Installing device driver sofware". As it does that, it correctly identifies the drive as, for instance, "My Book 1140". After a while it comes back with "Device driver software was not successfully installed". When I check the Device Manager, the USB hard drive is listed under "Other Devices" with the same name (e.g., My Book 1140), but there is no entry under USB Mass Storage Device or Disk Drives.
I have tried many tips from other websites, from deleting temporary files under C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore to power cycling the hard drives (they all have external power supplies), to "unhide" empty drives from Windows Explorer. The drives do not show under Disk Management, so I cannot attempt to assign a different letter or initialize them. Again, they work fine on other systems, they are properly formatted, and they can be read/written to (on other systems).
The one difference I noticed between a working and a non-working situation is that, on other systems, when the external hard drives properly show under Disk Drives in the Device Manager, the Driver Details tab shows two drives loaded: disk.sys and partmgr.sys. But when I look at the same tab in my non-working system, it show the drives that are recognized (the older, smaller external drives, and the internal SATA drive) have an extra driver: hpdskflt.sys
Has anyone else been able to use newer, larger USB external hard drives with this model? Is there a limitation in the hardware that would make those newer drives not compatible? As my smaller hard drives and memory keys still work under Windows 7, there's no issue with the USB ports themselves, just with these specific newer, larger hard drives.
I've sent an email to HP support, but I'm not hopeful because they only provide tech support to devices under warranty, or under a busines service agreement. I don't meet any of the two requirements.
The support pages for Western Digital and Seagate (my new external hard drives) say that there are no extra drivers needed, and that Windows 7 64-bit should recognize them right away.
The support pages for Microsoft say that if a driver is not installed properly or found, the device manufacturer should be contacted.
So that only leaves Internet forums as a source of ideas and suggestions.

Working solution on win 7 32 & 64 with driver lj1010serieshb-vista, did as follow:
connected printer, windows tried to auto install and failed, device was listed as unspecified.
googled for lj1010serieshb-vista(32/64).zip driver, downloaded from hp website, unzipped and extracted files.
Start > Run > PrintManagement.msc , then Print Servers > Localhost , right click on drivers > add driver > next > choose x86/x64 > next > have disk > browse to location of extracted
files, select hpc1015e.inf > ok > select hp laserjet 1010 hb > next > finish
Repeat above process and this time select select hp laserjet 1015 hb > next > finish , this step is needed as stated on previous post some files are missing on the 1010 driver and adding 1015 fixes the problem.
Now back to Devices and printers , right click on the unspecified device > troubleshoot > then will ask to search for driver, select "apply this fix" , it will find and install the correct driver from previous step > then will ask to set printer
as default, select "apply this fix" > then will ask if you want to share printer, select "skip this fix" if you don't want to share > close troubleshooter.
Now i have perfectly working printer, 'preferences' is working and not crashing win explorer and printer doesn't hung.
I guess you could first add the two drivers to your system before
connecting your printer and it would install perfectly but who would though this old printer would not work trough windows update.
thanks to the people who went by trial and error to find a working solution.

Adding A New Hard Drive

I've been thinking about adding a second hard drive. The problem is that I'm not sure which configuration would best fit my needs.
Currently I have one 120GB Maxtor SATA drive which, after six months, is half full. This leads me to conclude that eventually I'm going to fill it up.
Since I have only this one drive and no DVD writer, I don't have any good way of backing up my drive in case something fails. I don't have any vital data, but I've spent a long time getting my settings perfect, and I don't want to lose them.
I also know that doing a RAID doesn't give me more space. I know that RAID 0 basically uses two drives in parallel to double the storage efficiency, but if one drive fails, all the data on both is lost. I also know that RAID 1 copies all changes to the second hard drive and thus also does not increase my overall storage space.
What are my other options? If I buy another SATA drive, what ways do I have to copy my entire disk onto the new one? How does XP handle installation on the new drive? How do I switch between drives? I was thinking that I could put all my large music and video files on the new drive and then optimize my old drive for my games. This will still make it possible for me to listen to my music in Winamp while playing a game, right?
How do I install the new drive? Do I have to go into my BIOS and configure something? Here's what it says about my IDE setup (I don't know what IDE means either.)
Primary IDE Master = DVD-ROM
Primary IDE Slave = CD - RW
Secondary IDE Master = n/a
Secondary IDE Slave = n/a
Third IDE Master = Maxtor HDD
Third IDE Master = n/a
etc.
What does Master/Slave mean as far as usage and performance goes? Which SATA plug should I use for the new drive?
Sorry for the silly questions, I've never used a machine with more than one hard drive before.
EDIT: What brand hard disk do you guys recommend? I have in mind either Western Digital or Seagate. I won't have any compatibility or performance issues from using two drives of different make and capacity, will I?
Here's my specs:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8e HTT @ 3.26GHz
Thermaltake Spark 7+ Xaser Edition A1715 CPU Cooler
MSI 865PE Neo2-PFISR motherboard (BIOS ver. 3.8)
2x512MB OCZ PC3700 Gold Edition Rev 3 Dual Channel Enhanced Latency DDR @ 466MHz (2-3-3-5)
Built-by-ATI Radeon 9800 Pro @ XT 128MB DDR 256-bit @ 415/744 (Catalyst 4.12)
Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer Revision 3
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum
Cyber Acoustics CA-4100 4.1 Surround
Maxtor 6Y120M0 120GB HDD 7200RPM SATA150 8MB cache
Sony DDU1612 40x/16x DVD-ROM
Sony CRX230ED 52x/32x CD-RW
Enermax Noisetaker EG475P 470W PSU(+3.3V = 34A, +5V = 40A, +12V = 33A)
Ultra Dragon ATX Mid-Tower Case
Windows XP Pro SP2

Hi. I will try to help with some of your questions. Its easy but time consuming to move/copy files from one hard drive to another. Just drag the files/folders from one drive to the other one. That moves them. To copy them Select them and the select copy then go to the other drive and select paste. With two hard drives its best to set them up as one for system files and apps (your c drive) and one for storage (your D drive). Your optical drives then become e and f. If your case you would leave your current drive as C and the new drive would become your d storage drive. Moving your mp3s, vids, etc (i.e, non-system files or not apps), could take some hours, but that is usually no problem because you can do small numbers of files at a time or do it overnight. By the way you never want to fill up your hard drive, especially your c drive. Always leave 20+ percent free so you can get quick reading/writing to it. Mp3's, vids, pix etc play just fine from your stoage drive and your games play great from the c drive. And you can do both at the same time.
Masters and slaves have the same performance but that only applies to IDE drives. There is no master/slave designation for SATA drives.
Backing up your system files can then be done on your storage drive, but as harib said you can back up the important system files to a CD. Windows provides a backup utility for that. You can also back them up to your storage drive if you want.
If you truly want backups of ALL of your files, including storage, is simply a matter of adding another drive and then copying all of the files to the new drive. Hopefully you would never have both those two drives go bad at the same time.
Western Digital, Maxtor and Seagate are all good drives. You first must decide if your new drive will be SATA or IDE. You might just get another SATA drive for storage, but a lower cost IDE drive of similar capacity for your storage drive likely will be just as fast for for mp3s,etc. SATA really helps on your system drive which you already have.
Installation of drives is a bit more complicated with SATA drives in the sytem but can be relatively easy to do once you decide what drive to get. Don't base your purchase decision on installationo ease.
When you are about ready to install come back to the forum with specific details of what you want to install and someone will be happy to talk you through the process.
Good luck!

I am unable to copy files from my macbook pro to my external hard disk.

I am unable to copy files from my macbook pro to my external hard disk. I tried to copy a movie 800mb in size to my EDD and it shows the loading box and it says zero kb loaded out of 800mb and sometimes it loads a a few kb of the file, then after a while it ejects my hard disk and gives a message saying you should have ejected it properly. and it sometimes gives this message
"The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “....” can’t be read or written.
(Error code -36)".
This happens with a range of files if they are more than a few mb in size, so I am pretty sure its not the file problem. It also occurs sometimes when i try to copy from my EDD to my mac.
I have tried everything. I formatted my EDD to MS-DOS (FAT) format because i need to use it with mac and windows. I tried resetting The SMC and the PRAM and NVRAM. I tried verify and disk repair on disk utility. But the same thing happens over again and it is really frustrating. The problem doesnt happen with my PC.
My EDD is an Apollo 320GB hard drive from Imation.
Also are there any particular EDD brands that may not have this issue with MACs and can be used on mac and PC?
Thanks in advance!

Hey guys,
So this is follow up from my debarkle with the EDD. I found out my problem with copying files from Mac to EDD and vice versa was a result of a not so good EDD ( i had an apollo hard drive from imation) that was not very compatible with macs. So i did my research and found out that the best hard drives were Western Digital and Seagate. I bought the newest western digital EDD 1TB and formated it to FAT32 and guess what...no problems so far. The only problem is that FAT32 format doesn't copy files larger than about 4 gigs so i couldnt copy a movie from my brothers computer onto my EDD that was 1080p. You could probably resolve that by partitioning a small part of your hard drive in ExFAT? but yeah, hopefully that helped guys.
Aaisha

External Hard Drive Recommendation Needed

I have an iBook G4, with probably a little less than 20 GB of material that I want to back-up onto an external hard drive. Recently, I purchased a "Fuji 30GB External Hard Drive," but while attempting to transfer my material to it, I received very many times the following message:
"You cannot copy some of these items to the destination because their names are too long or contain invalid characters for the destination. Do you want to skip copying these items and continue copying the other items?"
As it turns out, about 20% of the files on my iBook are un-transferable to the "Fuji 30GB" because of the length or composition of their filenames. I was hoping that someone could recommend to me a brand of external drive, in the 20GB-30GB range, with which I would not have this problem. Thanks for reading.
Double thanks for answering.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Personally, I like Western Digital and Seagate drives. And I would recommend looking for a larger drive, as prices have really come down and you can often find sales. There is almost no such thing as a hard drive that is too big. I believe the extra space will help with the bigger files because it will improve the chances of larger blocks of space to receive the data.
Newegg and OWC are good sources. Also look at office supply stores for sales.
Good luck!

Hard drive upgrade for Mac Book Pro from 11/2007 with 120GB

Hello
My hard drive is full after 2 years. I contacted an apple reseller as Apple store would not advise on it, and they told me that to avoid overheating, I should not exceed 160 GB for a new hard drive. I was surprised as a 250 GB hard rive was optional when I bought my MBP. I was more looking at 500 GB but I am worried about overheating as my laptop tends to heat up a lot with the current drive already.
How big a hard drive can my MBP accommodate (I understand 500 GB)? Will it create more heat which can not be dissipated by the MBP as Apple reseller told? Does 5400 or 7200 rpm change the heat levels (I understand not necessarily)?
Thanks for your answers, may help me avoid buying a new laptop.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
I have the 17" MBP from September 2007, and I ordered mine with the optional 250 GB drive, which is a Fujitsu 4200 RPM model. My Mac runs perfectly well on this drive, and it never gets hot.
Since so many people have successfully put 500 GB drives in their Macs, I think the Apple reseller is misinformed. There may be a decrease in battery life for the 7200 RPM models, but I have read many posts where people report that the drives work perfectly well and that there was no heat problem.
I replaced the 30 GB drive in my iBook with a Western Digital 120 GB drive, and have had no issues with it. The drive does make a slightly different and louder whirring noise if you listen carefully. My only regret is that I did not install a 250 GB drive instead of the 120 GB.
Western Digital and Seagate both make 500 GB drives that should work perfectly well in your machine. Some people have reported problems with the 640 GB Western Digital spinning up and down too much, so you may want to avoid that one. If you go with the 500 GB Seagate, be sure to select one without the G-Force feature, as it is a built in type of sudden motion sensor which can conflict with Apple's built in Sudden Motion Sensor.
Good luck!

Westren digital or seagate

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