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Just set up a new G5 Dual 2.0 and will be adding Ram and a second driveto write audio too. What do You like in a internal ATA serial drive and why?

Thanks

This one's easy: Western Digital Raptor 74G 10,000 RPM HD. It just plain smokes....

From my experience, there is no reason to get a 10k drive at this point over 7200rpm.... there's not a performance advantage as the through-put of SATA is so huge already. In fact, the 10k drives (I'm told) act like a 7200rpm drive... I don't know the details there but I do have a 10k SATA drive and a 7200 SATA drive and don't see any speed difference.

I agree, 10K drives are probably overkill unless you plan to do lots of 96Khz+ audio. 7,200 RPM drives are plenty fast enough

afrotronic
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Member # 2416 posted January 05, 2005 01:13 PM                       
I agree, 10K drives are probably overkill unless you plan to do lots of 96Khz+ audio. 7,200 RPM drives are plenty fast enough

Isn't everyone with a G5 doing 96K now.. Buy the fastest drive you can slot is your G5 or...

'go for it'

...and buy a SCSI Cheetah 15K ULTRA 320 with ATTO UL4S PCI card and never look back or have lost data or speed issues again. A pwr coverter is comming for internal drive to be produced by Sonnet tech.

You know me!

Cheers,
Gary TL

There was a time when I would have recommended Western Digital to anyone that asked, but my latest experience with them has led me to curse their very existence. I have a 200 gig FW drive and for some strange reason, it will not work with my Dual 1.25 G4 (dual boot version). It work perfectly with all of my other Macs, but not this one. There is nothing wrong with the firewire ports on the G4 because all of my other firewire devices work fine with it. I have to assume that there is some sort of compatibility issue with this particular G4. I called WD several times and they will not help because the unit is out of warranty. I paid $350 for the drive and I think for that kind of money, they could put a little effort forth to help me out. I judge a company based, not only on the performance of their product, but also on how the support their product and WD's support is terrible.

Seagates are not bad now with their 5 year warranty. Pretty competitively priced too!

Surprisingly, Barefeats.com concludes the Maxtor 300Gig/16MB cache 7200rpm SATA is the best boot and a great recording drive edging out the 10K Raptors in the boot department according to recent tests.

remember that the 10k +drives can be pretty noisey as well. Hope your CPU and drives are far away from whee you record/mix.

oops

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