Adding hard drives in a Mac Pro.

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Fredou51

Discussion Starter · Sep 22, 2007

I am about to order new drives for my Mac Pro. I will keep the stock 250 GB as the boot drive and install two new 500 GB in Raid 0 for the best speed. I was looking at this Western Digital 500 GB SATA from Tiger Direct:

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 7200 16MB SATA-300 OEM Hard Drive WD5000AAKS in Canada at TigerDirect.ca

Would this work in the Mac Pro? Would it fit in the tray with no cable just like the stock drive?

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Mississauga

· #2 · Sep 22, 2007

I prefer installing Seagate drives - 5 year warranty and good track record.

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CanadaRAM

· #3 · Sep 22, 2007

Fredou51 said:
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 7200 16MB SATA-300 OEM Hard Drive WD5000AAKS in Canada at TigerDirect.ca

Would this work in the Mac Pro? Would it fit in the tray with no cable just like the stock drive?

Yes, it will work quite nicely. The WD drives are good, they have a three year warranty as compared to the Seagate's five year.
Check with your favorite Apple-friendly dealer (there are several that support ehMac), you might find it for close to the same price, but with better customer service.

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Amiga2000HD

· #4 · Sep 23, 2007

I'm going to recommend Seagate as well. I added one to my G5 recently, and the 20 MB Seagate MFM disk in the old IBM XT clone (My goodness, I gave the fanboys nightmares and it isn't even Halloween

) ran fine for 21 years and that computer was in working condition when it finally got junked, too.

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