I finally switched and got a Mac Pro this past month. I am now wanting to put in additional hard drives into the 3 bays I have left. I think 750gb are what I will get.

Any opinions on what to buy. I hear good things about WD 750s. How about Hitachi?

Thanks

Erik

I think it's Hitachi that apple uses in the Mac Pros, but I can't remember. I have a WD 500GB in the second bay of my G5 and it's niiiiice. Newegg will have great prices on hard drives. Enjoy!

any SATA II disk

I'd be careful saying "Any..." some hard drives are notorious for being unreliable. I personally have had bad experiences with Maxtor drives, and will only use WD or Hitachi drives from now on.

But yes, make sure that whatever drive you get is SATA II (3.0gb/sec)

yep, agreed, seagate is good too.

Thanks guys for your help!!!!

Be well,

Erik

Just so you know, WD has a least 3 lines of pro drives. The more money for the enterprise type server drives gives you a better set of bearings and a longer guarentee.

Our stock HDD was a WD, but I've seen Maxtor drives in machines as well.

I go for Hitachi, Seagate, and WD in that order, though we recently had a Seagate partially crap out on us (S.M.A.R.T. errors). I may swap the Seagate over WD preference soon...

Sata II. I've heard that Seagate Barracudas are the best.

I have a couple of Seagate Barracuda 750's in the Mac Pro, as well as the WD 250 that shipped with the machine.

The bottom line about hard drives is: it's not IF a hard drive is going to fail, but WHEN...

I've had back luck in the past w/LaCie (porshe drives), but even one of my seagate 750's was bad (right out of the box).

best of luck.

P.S. CompUSA has some interesting features with their TAP program (a 1 or 2-year warranty) no questions asked return policy.

didn't seagate buy out maxtor?

as far as i know, but maxtor drives are till floating around in their name.

I remember researching this for my macs when my hd died on the macbook pro and remember reading that according to the geek bench tests put on them the hitachi was best, fujitsu worst. I know the apple centers all use WD hard drives, but they are also the most sensitive out of all of the hd models, so id go seagate or hitachi.

I have six Maxtors and have never had a problem.

But the real point is that you can't go by brands. No matter what brand you buy, the electronics change every few weeks, the hardware every few months, and the entire drive technology changes every year or so - so if there is a bad batch or a bad design, you can't predict it and it will be out of production by the time you even hear about it.

Most problems come from overheating. Keep your drives cool and you will drastically reduce your chances of problems. I keep a fan blowing on my external drives and bought a gamer's case that has front-mounted fans for the internal ones.

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My Maxtor drives have also been solid, and I just bought another one last week. The only external drive that bit the dust was a LaCie.