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New Hard Drive for Mac Pro?
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Looking for another hard drive for my mac pro. Did a search hear but couldn't find the answer I want so posting this. Are the Perpendicular writing hard drives working well with the macs? I am finding the perpendicular drives are cheaper than the regular ones in the same capacity. Is there something wrong with these since there cheaper? Are they more efficient than the regular drives? tnks
Randy
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2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
Home built 12 core 2.93 Westmere PC (almost half the cost of MP) Win7 64.
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From what I've read, the perpendicular drives allow for higher storage capacity in the same physical HDD space. The HDD in my MBP C2D is a perpendicular drive and it works great so far (purchased in mid-Oct 2006).
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I changed the title to be more explanatory. To the question "Hard drive?" I would respond "Telephone!" See the point?
Perpendicular storage hasn't gotten the press it deserves. It increases storage density significantly on otherwise unchanged hardware (same platter speeds, same head arms and actuators...), meaning that it's a pretty easy "new technology" to implement. I think new drives using perpendicular storage are simply slipping into our computers without us realizing it. Which, while cool, is sort of a slight to the really cool technology.
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Perpendicular ( gotta link to the animation!) hard drives are just a minor change to how the data is stored on disk. Minor reduction in power consumption and sometimes price at the same capacity due to the reduction in platters. From the computer's view they're no different than the older drives and they work fine with Macs.
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Thanks mduell for the flash back to disco. Good explanation though. Don't understand why I find a 25 dollar different between a regular HD and the perpendicular drive (lowest) but 25 bucks saved is 25 bucks saved  . Thanks again.
Randy
Originally Posted by mduell 
Perpendicular ( gotta link to the animation!) hard drives are just a minor change to how the data is stored on disk. Minor reduction in power consumption and sometimes price at the same capacity due to the reduction in platters. From the computer's view they're no different than the older drives and they work fine with Macs.
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2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
Home built 12 core 2.93 Westmere PC (almost half the cost of MP) Win7 64.
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Originally Posted by bearcatrp
Thanks mduell for the flash back to disco. Good explanation though. Don't understand why I find a 25 dollar different between a regular HD and the perpendicular drive (lowest) but 25 bucks saved is 25 bucks saved . Thanks again.
The non-perpendicular drive price is basically frozen in time from when it's successor was released; they're more expensive to build (more platters) and not many people are buying them as a result of the price difference.
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