Buying advice: 120GB hard drive(s)

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cthornecthorne
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I've got a new PowerMac G4 that came with 80GB hard drive. Already used up 60GB. Using for video and photo editing. I want to add 120GB. Do I just buy two 60GB ATA drives? Anyone have recommendations on what to look for (gotchas) when purchasing and brand recommendations?



Any and all advice welcome!



Christine



P.S. I'm also going to upgrade my SDRAM from 256 (adding another 512). Advice here too? Will probably buy direct from Apple on this unless someone tells me different.

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    chychchych Posts: 860member
    You can get two 60GB or one 120GB drive, doesn't matter what the size is. But, if you do get two 60GB drives, you can RAID stripe them, they will read/write 2x faster if you need that speed (this will make the two drives act as one, but if one drive fails your data sort of gets screwed).



    Go for 7200RPM or higher drives, they are faster, and the drives with more cache (like 8MB). I'm not sure on which brands are better (never really noticed a difference).



    As for RAM, I've always bought from crucial ( <a href="http://www.crucial.com"; target="_blank">www.crucial.com</a> ), they've always given me good RAM and good prices.
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    formelyknow as cybruinformelyknow as cybruin Posts: 31member
    Seagate drives are good, just dont buy fujitsu because they will fail!!!
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    xionjaxionja Posts: 504member
    I don't know if you want an external or internal, but as far as external hard drives go, I have an Acom Data 120GB drive that has firewire and usb2. Its not too noisy, small, and pretty. works like a charm.
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    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
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    mrbilldatamrbilldata Posts: 489member
    If you do a lot of video work, you may want to get one or two SCSI drives. I bought a SCSI card with my G4 DP MDD and have a Seagate 36GB SCSI for recording and a Seagate 120GB ATA for the rest of my local stuff. I also have Eight 240GB ATA Western Digital drives in an external Firewire

    tower.



    As for quality (0-9), I rate Seagate an 8, Western a 7, IBM a 6, and Maxtor a 5.

    Of course there are certain drives from each of them that are better and some much worse than their average.
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    xoolxool Posts: 2,460member
    Whoops, posted to the wrong thread... DOH!



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