Where to purchase hard drives for the mac pro for good prices?

[Lycanthrope]

Accoring to Apple the drives in the Mac Pro are 3GB per second transfer rate - some of the discs I've seen recently mention 1.5GB per second, others don't mention transfer rate at all.

How can one determine this when it's not listed in the product spec? Anything to look for?

 

[robbieduncan]

Accoring to Apple the drives in the Mac Pro are 3GB per second transfer rate - some of the discs I've seen recently mention 1.5GB per second, others don't mention transfer rate at all.

How can one determine this when it's not listed in the product spec? Anything to look for?

This is actually the maximum theoretical transfer rate of the interface. The drives themselves cannot supply anything like that. 1.5GB == SATA, 3GB == SATA 2.

 

[Lycanthrope]

This is actually the maximum theoretical transfer rate of the interface. The drives themselves cannot supply anything like that. 1.5GB == SATA, 3GB == SATA 2.

Ah, cheers for that, so a SATA2 matches the Apple spec.

Marvellous, cheers mate.

 

[kwood]

Is there a minimum storage size needed for hard drive bays 2, 3, and 4? (i.e. 500GB and higher)

Thanks.

No there is no minimum.

 

[^squirrel^]

I also had 2 Maxtor drives fail and will never even think about buying one again!

I swear by Seagte, not the fastest drive in the world but not far behind. Noise levels are good and stability is brilliant! Not had one fail yet and i've installed 30+!!!!!

I got a Seagate 7200.10 320gb for my Macpro and it's great!

Good luck with that Maxtor.
I'll never purchase a Maxtor product again.
Back up your data frequently...I've had 2 failed Maxtor drives and know about 5 other people who (between them) have had 10 failed Maxtors.

OP:
I recommend buying Seagate drives at Newegg. Try to get the 7200.10 models which feature perpendicular recording; the 7200.9 ones are the old models that don't have it. Apparently perpendicular recording will give users more reliable drives that are less prone to failure and problems (in addition to allowing more data to be written to drives/larger volume possible). Seagates have great warranties and great reliability.