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SATA Drives
MacGurus is carrying a great performing selection of current Retail SATA
hard drives. All of our manufacturers have something of a following from
the Mac
community,
rightly
so since the
manufacturing processes give reliability, low noise and low operating temperatures
fairly evenly with all of them.
Most SATA drives from every manufacturer have a 16MB cache and all but the
10K Western Digital Raptor spin at 7200 RPM on Fluid Dynamic Bearings for
low vibration/acoustical signature, long life and cool operation.
A word about OEM versus Retail Drives
MacGurus' strongly recommends that our customers avoid purchasing drives
marketed as OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) hard drives. We suggest
that you stick always with Retail drives. Retail
drives carry the retail manufacturer's warranty, 3 to 5 years, with all
the contractual support that the warranty provides. OEM drives were
originally manufactured for one of the many major manufacturers of computers
and or servers. OEM drives do not carry a warranty from the drive
manufacturer nor from
the
OEM buyer.
Instead they are sold
to resellers 'as is' and any warranty is provided by the reseller. Worse
yet, these drives may have custom firmware as specified by the OEM. We frequently
see customers with OEM market drives have compatibility problems in desktop
usage. There is just no way to know what you are getting when you purchase
OEM drives and warranty coverage is hit or miss depending on the source.
MacGurus ONLY sells Retail drives.
NOTE: Now that all that is said about OEM, Seagate has gone and made things
more complicated by shipping the 7200.11 Retail drives with OEM labels.
We have not been able to get
an answer from Seagate about why this is so, and also have been unable to
buy Seagate drives with Retail labels on them. The drives are Retail, with
5 year warranty and standard firmware - every last one of them say OEM
on the drive though. The Seagate 7200.11 is the king of performance, and
we are going
to hang in there
and try and get Seagate to fix the labeling issues. The Seagate drives you
receive from MacGurus will always be Retail. Please excuse us for the confusion.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives.
Seagate looks to have pulled off a coup with their new 7200.11 Barracuda.
This drive is so fast that it lit our hair on fire. With both reads and writes
in the 100MB/sec range, a 32 MB cache and super quiet operation,
it meets all our requirements for an all around high capacity drive. Now
shipping in 500 GB, 700 GB and 1 TB versions, these drives are the choice
for an all around drive.
This is now a perfect choice for system, data or streaming media drive!
Seagate drives carry a industry leading 5 year facrtory warranty! Absolute
speediest RAID capabilities. You can count on this drive as your best choice
for highest
performance. A full 20% faster than the competition in most cases. Seagate
has dropped manufacture of 3.5 inch drives smaller capacity than 500 GigaBytes.
If you are looking for those smaller sizes they will have to come from a
different manufacturer.
The Hitachi SATAII drives - a performance standout. Incorporating
the new SATAII with a 300 MB/sec bus capability, NCQ and ATA-7 streaming
feature set. A
3 year warranty and top level
performance
make this a first
choice for all your Desktop and Server needs. This is a fine choice for
all your needs, System, data, streaming media.
As of today there are some distinct performance differences between the different
manufacturers drive products. The Western Digital Raptor is
of course in a class of its own being the only 10k RPM SATA drive. Useful
in scratch disk arrays or as a boot drive. With the 74 GB drive and
the 150 GB versions you can count on the highest possible
speeds available in a 3.5 inch drive. Speed rivaling SCSI even. Highly recommended
to install a pair of these in your MacPro workstation in a RAID0 for scratch
duties.
Note:
Seagate SATA drives only have 15 pin SATA power connections. For installations
in G4, G3 and earlier Mac you will need to purchase a SATA
Y Power Adapter for each pair of drives you install to connect to the 4 pin Molex power connectors.
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