How good are the Apple supplied hard drives?

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How good is the stock 320Gb Apple supplied drive in the Mac Pro? If I buy a Mac Pro would I be better off taking it straight out and replacing it with a fairly quick drive like a Seagate ST3500320AS?

 
Depends how you mean by good...

Do you mean by speed?
noise?
reliability?

I've got the 250gb and it's pretty quiet and quick enough to not really notice loading delays and has never let me down.

Although I've seen well reputed hard drives such as WD and Seagate die within minutes of plugging them in.

Sooo......
 
Feek said:
All three I guess, but speed is the most important.
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It's not the fastest of drives, but it's quick enough.

TBH all my data that I access reguarly like my photography is on a seperate drive due to the fact that if my OS goes I still have my piccys :) - For that I use WD jobbies.

I would rather have a quiet drive than a fast one, the standard Mac Pro ones are a good compensation of both I think :) - Although the 320gb may be a different story. :)
 
Feek said:
All three I guess, but speed is the most important.
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Recently it seems the Mac Pros have been shipping with WD drives - mine came with a WD5000AAKS - so I would expect a WD3200AAKS to come as stock or possibly a Seagate.

If I were you I would keep it as a TM or Image storage drive and put in something like a Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB (HD322HJ) as a boot drive or a WD6400AAKS if you need a bit more space, then add a 1TB drive for storage (could then point your ~/ to that drive).
 
I certainly think you should consider a F1 Drive, speed/cache/noise.

I have 1x1TB for Leopard & 1x1TB for my bootcamp Vista install.

Excellent drives in my opinion, I will be purchasing another soon too!
 
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