Adding Hard Drive to Mac Pro

[Gorion]

I'd like to add a 500 GB HD in bay 2. Does anyone have suggestions on which drive to get?

And when connecting the HD, do I just connect the HD to the thing that slides out of the bay, then slide that thing back in (and the HD will be detected automattically?)


Thanks!

 

[kylepro88]

I suggest a Western Digital HD. Other than that Seagate but WD is the best IMO.

- Kyle

 

[bmat]

The new harddrive is automatically detected, but may need to be formatted for OS X. It's the easiest thing in the whole world -- even butterfingers like me can do it.

 

[Rare]

Just make sure its a SATA hard disk, not a PATA (or IDE) one.

 

[MacsAttack]

Western Digital, though Segate and Hitachi will be launching their 1TB drives soon...

I'm holding off for those to hit the market - then I'll get two

 

[robbieduncan]

Western Digital, though Segate and Hitachi will be launching their 1TB drives soon...

I'm holding off for those to hit the market - then I'll get two

The problem with that plan will be cost. The largest drives always seem to cost more $ per Gb than the smaller ones, simply as they are the largest/newest. Hopefully the 1Tb drives will push the price of the 750Gb ones down though...

 

[kered22]

If drive make isn't as important, OWC has 500GB Maxtors for $133 right now and there are several other good deals on other makes going on right now at dealmac.

 

[iPhil]

The problem with that plan will be cost. The largest drives always seem to cost more $ per Gb than the smaller ones, simply as they are the largest/newest. Hopefully the 1Tb drives will push the price of the 750Gb ones down though...

Well once the TB drives come out it'll push the 750's down to around $340 price bracket so the TB's can get around $400 to $500 bracket (retail)



Where to find out the launch date of TB Sata drives?

 

[kered22]

Where to find out the launch date of TB Sata drives?

Hitachi says before March with theirs for $400. Seagate seems pretty quiet on a lot of details on theirs, only confirmed details is that it's a terabyte hard drive and that it'll be out in the first half of 2007.

http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/01/05/terabyte/index.php

 

[synth3tik]

I would choose either a Seaget or Western Digital.


I like them both and use both in my back ups