[Bigfoot]

I'm configuring a new MacPro. Apple wants $300 for a second 500gb drive. Looking around I found a Western Digital 500gb (8.7 seek, 7200rpm, 16mb cache) for $179. No other specs given on the Apple site for their HD's. Is there a $120 difference? The drive will be used for audio.

Thanks for any help.

[Big Mac]

There's no reason to buy Apple hard drive or RAM upgrades unless you're buying an AIO and the upgrade in question is difficult.

[onlyone-jc]

The drive/s inside won't be made by Apple. They'll be made by a major hard drive manufacturer (i.e. Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital, etc). So, just choose the cheapest hard drive option, and buy your drives elsewhere (providing you're comfortable fitting them yourself - which isn't hard).

onlyone-jc.

[mduell]

There's no reason to buy a hard drive from Apple, but that WD isn't a particularly good deal.

Buy a 500GB Seagate for $145 with a 5 year warranty (same specs, 7200RPM/8.5ms seek/16MB cache)

[Bigfoot]

Thank you folks. Think I'll get two of those Seagates for the price of one from Apple. Thanks for the link.