Hard Drive Upgrade

[mosquiteki]

Hi all,

My mac pro is

Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon

is my mac pro compatible with the following 2 hard drives?

Hitachi
3.0TB Deskstar™ 7K3000 Hard Disk Drive
3.5-Inch | SATA 6.0Gb/s | 7200RPM | 64MB Cache

or

Western

3.0TB Caviar® Green Hard Disk Drive
3.5-Inch | SATA 3.0Gb/s | Variable RPM | 64MB Cache

 

[philipma1957]

Hi all,

My mac pro is

Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon

is my mac pro compatible with the following 2 hard drives?

Hitachi
3.0TB Deskstar™ 7K3000 Hard Disk Drive
3.5-Inch | SATA 6.0Gb/s | 7200RPM | 64MB Cache

or

Western

3.0TB Caviar® Green Hard Disk Drive
3.5-Inch | SATA 3.0Gb/s | Variable RPM | 64MB Cache

I own two wd's they are good.

 

[alust2013]

Yes. Both will work, however, if you want speed, you'll want to get the Hitachi. If it's just for storage then the WD would probably be better.

 

[Peteman100]

Mac Pros are compatible with any SATA hard drive

 

[mosquiteki]

Thanks
what about Hybrid hard drive ?

 

[reel2reel]

I've got my Mac Pro loaded with 4 of those Hitachi 3 TB drives. (OS is on an SSD in the spare optical drive bay)

OWC has good prices on the Hitachi drives.

 

[DanielCoffey]

The Mac Pro is normally SATA 3Gb/s, yes?

 

[nanofrog]

The Mac Pro is normally SATA 3Gb/s, yes?

Yes.

The ICH was manufactured to the SATA II (3.0Gb/s) specification, but 6.0Gb/s drives will run on 3.0Gb/s ports due to backwards compatibility (there may be a performance drop as a result, particularly with SSD's; not so much with mechanical, as the fastest mechanical disks cannot even saturate the 3.0Gb/s interface for sustained throughputs).

If you need 6.0Gb/s ports, there are PCIe cards that will work. Just keep in mind, most are eSATA for the MP (there are a couple of exceptions I'm aware of, but near the $380 - 400 USD mark, I don't see many takers - they're meant for mass storage solutions, such as attach 16 + disks running in a Z-RAID or Z-RAID2 configuration).