Advice on buying an Apple Internal Hard Drive

joelmoore · Post by **joelmoore** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:16 pm

My hard drive is filling up and I will probably buy a new one from OWC. I'm stuck now with which one. I'll probably go with an 80gb of some sort. Any brands that stand out as good? Any I should stay away from?

Thanks

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:27 pm

What Mac computer do you own?

I have 820GB of drive space in my G5, plus 280GB external. You can find deals for internal SATA drives with a 16MB cache for dirt cheap. I paid $99 for my 320GB WD Caviar drive in March, and $199 last August for the 500GB version. I'm sure that the 500GB version is much cheaper now.

Jeff

joelmoore · Post by **joelmoore** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:55 pm

I have a G4 MDD Dual 867. Not the FW800 version. Who did you buy from?

This looks like a relatively good deal: http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item. ... ST3250620A

analogcabin · Post by **analogcabin** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:14 am

I'd call OWC

I'd get an external Firewire in your case for whenever you jump ship from the non-SATA side.

UXB · Post by **UXB** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:05 am

I have always had great luck with Seagate barracudas as for the drive goes. I think most high performance "media drives" use these. Be forewarned that ide is on its way out (albeit gradually) and SATA is replacing it.

I would think 80 GB is too small, and would recommend something more robust.

Also, remember to have enough space to keep your system drive 1/2 - 1/3 empty.

Best,
H

joelmoore · Post by **joelmoore** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:47 pm

Thanks for the tips guys. I had been eying the barracuda but had read somewhere a while back that Seagate drives are not reliable. I have recently lost 2 crucial sessions to HD failure(I had them backed up on an external drive and on CD but both locations are now gobbledygook files). I don't know why my backups crapped out on me and since the original HD can't be located at startup and never mounts, those files are gone forever.

So I'm gunshy about what to do next.

joelmoore · Post by **joelmoore** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:36 pm

Perpendicular Recording increases data density while decreasing moving parts for a more dependable drive.

Anybody know anything about this Perpendicular thingamawhatzit?

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