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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Well I got mine and I'm planning on adding another internal hard drive and also some more memory.
Any suggestions on brands?
Does make a difference if I go with two 1GB memory chips as opposed to one 2GB?
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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MP's memory has to be installed in pairs of 2, so unless you intend to fork out mucho deniro for 2x 2GB chips, go for the 2x 1gb chips & be happy 
DataMem, OWC, and Crucial seem to be favored by most people here, although Kingston and PNY are well established brands also... just make sure to get a compatibility/no hassle return/exchange and lifetime guarentee from the supplier!
As for HD's, Seagate seems to be the favorite around here due to their 5yr warranty, but many folks (me2) have had good luck with Maxtor and WD too.......
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Signatures are ugly. Bitchy women are ugly......YOU do the math :)
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Originally Posted by bowwowman 
MP's memory has to be installed in pairs of 2, so unless you intend to fork out mucho deniro for 2x 2GB chips, go for the 2x 1gb chips & be happy
DataMem, OWC, and Crucial seem to be favored by most people here, although Kingston and PNY are well established brands also... just make sure to get a compatibility/no hassle return/exchange and lifetime guarentee from the supplier!
As for HD's, Seagate seems to be the favorite around here due to their 5yr warranty, but many folks (me2) have had good luck with Maxtor and WD too.......
Ditto.....I went with 2 maxtors in raid 0 as boot, seagate as backup, and another seagate for windows. As far as ram is concerned I opted for OWC 2x 1gb modules, but if you have the extra money I would go with crucial. 
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Why does the mac pro make you go with pairs?
And what does raid 0 mean?
Thanks guys
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Virginia
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"A RAID 0 (also known as a stripe set or striped volume) splits data evenly across two or more disks (striped) with no parity information for redundancy. It is important to note that RAID 0 was not one of the original RAID levels and provides zero data redundancy. RAID 0 is normally used to increase performance, although it can also be used as a way to create a small number of large virtual disks out of a large number of small physical ones." (Wikipedia)
I am considering doing a mirror RAID which gives my 100% redundancy (as opposed to more speed). There are RAID configs that combine striped and mirrored RAIDs and give both redundancy and speed but you need four or five drives.
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