csonni

Will be installing an additional hard drive in a recently purchased G5 (1.8 single). Want to put in another 160 gig (I think). It presently has a 160 gig. I heard somewhere that it's best for OSX to reside on a smaller drive with nothing on it other than apps. What brand drive do you recommend and where are the good prices? I understand that the G5s will only take SATA drives. Is there a need to jump one as a Master and slave as in the older G4 models?

Elemenopee

Yes.

Western Digital Raptor, 74GB, 10K rpm, ~$200-$250, or
a Maxtor with 16MB cache

No.

Glipt

Stay away from maxtors. My buddy has had 3 catastrophic failures in the last 6 months with his maxtors. I have a seagate (super quiet) and a western digital in my G4 and both have been great.

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lindmar

ive enever had a problem with maxtors
my 200 gig interal is purrin nicely

Bill Baroud

What about using a second drive to setup a software RAID? I'm considering this right now, does it worth the effort in term of performances?

MacDoc

Ditto with Maxtors - only ther Proline is good and the 5400s.
Seagate or WD all the way.
Raids are worth it BUT email us for more info.

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csonni

Elemenopee- where did you get your price for that Raptor. It's listed for $359 at CDW (Macwarehouse).

csonni

Would anyone know where the best price (Canadian) for the Western Digital Raptor 74 gig can be found? Also, if I were to add this drive to the existing 160 gig, how would I make a Raid Array out of them? I was going to use the 74 gig for the OS and Apps only, and the 160 for files. Is this a proper setup for a raid Array? Would I want to do a hardware or software array (what exactly is the performance difference and penalty?).

kent

Maxtors suck - Seagate is the way to go or even Western Digital (2nd choice). There's a reason why Maxtors are cheap! Go to www.seagate.com to take a look. As for pricing, I usually start with NCIX ( www.ncix.com ), but you could check with guys like MacDoc to see what kind of pricing they can give you. If you want to set up a RAID you should use identical drives (for striping - RAID 0).

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thewitt

Funny... My G5 came with a Maxtor drive. Is Apple doing something wrong?

I've never has a problem with them. They do get hot, but that's just fan noise.

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