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HD's: WD with 8MB buffer or Seagate Berracuda with 2MB?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Hello,
Camelot, and Cipher13 a while ago recommended Seagate Barracuda drive (w 2 MB Buffer) over Wester Digital Caviar w 8MB buffer.
this would be for a second HD in a new G4. they are similarly priced ( barracuda 5$ more) is there a concensus that seagate is the better drive, or pros and cons to each?
thanks rotut
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Pasadena
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it's a simple matter of speed vs. quietness. The Baracuda is quiet but not as fast as the WD. I try to squeeze every oz of speed out of my Mac, so I'm all for WD...
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G4/450, T-bird 1.05GHz, iBook 500, iBook 233...4 different machines, 4 different OSes...(9, 2k, X.1, YDL2.2 respectively) PiA to maintain...
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Join Date: Jan 1999
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I actually run both an 80 gig Seagate Baracuda and a 120 gig WD (with the original Apple 30 gig). The previous post concerning noise is accurate. I will say that I copied my system over from the Seagate to the WD using cardbon copy clone and benchmarked the difference. Much quicker with the 8 meg cache on the Seagate. The system is much "snappier" booting from the WD.
Just my 2 cents.
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Join Date: Mar 1999
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I vote for the WD 120GB (8MB cache) here. 
Kenneth
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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I just put a WD 120 GB with 8 MB buffer in a FireWire case from Other World Computing and it rocks! The speed is just amazing, and I don't find it to be all that loud (other than when it is spinning up or down).
The WD with 8 MB buffer gets my vote!
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Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Originally posted by krove:
I just put a WD 120 GB with 8 MB buffer in a FireWire case from Other World Computing and it rocks! The speed is just amazing, and I don't find it to be all that loud (other than when it is spinning up or down).
The WD with 8 MB buffer gets my vote!
OK so my 2c is old, but whatever.
My upgrade was also a WD after my OEM drive fried, and I am very happy with the WD and the slight boost in speed it gave me.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Heh, I just had a WD drive die on me tonight.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Originally posted by krove:
I just put a WD 120 GB with 8 MB buffer in a FireWire case from Other World Computing and it rocks! The speed is just amazing, and I don't find it to be all that loud (other than when it is spinning up or down).
The WD with 8 MB buffer gets my vote!
Same here. WD 120 in a Pyro case. Works like a charm. The fan in the case (soon to be disabled) is louder than the drive itself. I heard that these drives run cool and don't need the case fan. True? or am I asking for trouble with killing the fan?
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