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<blockquote data-quote="blinkin357" data-source="post: 631122" data-attributes="member: 31357"><p><strong>Another Photoshop MacPro User</strong></p><p></p><p>As others have said, buy your drives from third-parties to save money. Get the smallest drive and RAM with your MacPro and upgrade later. </p><p></p><p>I've been buying Seagate SATA II drives from <a href="http://www.newegg.com" target="_blank">www.newegg.com</a> with good success. I recently upgraded a pair of internal 500gb RAID-1 drives for 1tb Seagates priced at $240 each. I bought 8gb of Crucial RAM from newegg and haven't had any problems with those either.</p><p></p><p>I suggest that you wait until you get your MacPro before buying drives because prices will continue to drop and sizes will increase. Why buy 1tb drives now when 2tb drives may be available in a few months? You want to maximize those four drive bays. I added four drive bays to my MacPro and currently have a total of six internal SATA 2 drives running. Four drives are mirrored sets for photoshop files. I can add two more internal hard drives if I was willing to move my optical drive into an external case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blinkin357, post: 631122, member: 31357"] [b]Another Photoshop MacPro User[/b] As others have said, buy your drives from third-parties to save money. Get the smallest drive and RAM with your MacPro and upgrade later. I've been buying Seagate SATA II drives from [url]www.newegg.com[/url] with good success. I recently upgraded a pair of internal 500gb RAID-1 drives for 1tb Seagates priced at $240 each. I bought 8gb of Crucial RAM from newegg and haven't had any problems with those either. I suggest that you wait until you get your MacPro before buying drives because prices will continue to drop and sizes will increase. Why buy 1tb drives now when 2tb drives may be available in a few months? You want to maximize those four drive bays. I added four drive bays to my MacPro and currently have a total of six internal SATA 2 drives running. Four drives are mirrored sets for photoshop files. I can add two more internal hard drives if I was willing to move my optical drive into an external case. [/QUOTE]
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