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Apple Computing Products:
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<blockquote data-quote="Geeky1" data-source="post: 524167" data-attributes="member: 34442"><p>I'm not sure if I completely understand what you're asking... A good quality 7200rpm drive will be just as reliable as the stock 5400rpm drive was.</p><p></p><p>I mean, there's really nothing special about an Apple computer. When you get right down to it, get past the OS and the form-over-function design philosophy, they're nothing special.</p><p></p><p>Even going back as far as the G3 at LEAST (probably farther, I just haven't played with anything older than a G3), they were never anything special. The only thing that made them different from a PC was that they were using Motorola/IBM processors instead of x86 stuff. Almost all of the other hardware they use, everything from RAM to power supplies to optical drives to the NIC and sound chips on the logic boards, is often <strong>identical</strong> to what is found in Dells and Gateways and the like the world over. And when it's not, it's based on the same hardware, but with certain features selectively enabled or disabled to maintain product separation between the models in Apple's lineup, and make the machines harder and more expensive to upgrade. Heck, Apple (like most other manufacturers) doesn't even build the computers themselves... Some of their notebooks are made by ASUS, the others are made by, iirc, Compal-companies that also manufacture notebooks for Sony, HP and Dell, amongst others.</p><p></p><p>What I'm getting at is that Apple uses the same components as everyone else, even more so now with the Intel machines; there's nothing special or different about the hard drive that came in your machine.</p><p></p><p>As far as flash drives go, I would not recommend one at this time. First of all, flash memory has very slow write speeds. A flash drive will, when saving data, be significantly slower than your factory 5400rpm drive. Furthermore, the 2.5" solid state disks that are out there are very expensive. And building your own using a compact flash card is ill-advised from a reliability standpoint, because flash memory has a limited number of read/write cycles, and you could wear out a flash card that's not designed for use as a hard drive very, very quickly (within a matter of months) and lose all your data again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geeky1, post: 524167, member: 34442"] I'm not sure if I completely understand what you're asking... A good quality 7200rpm drive will be just as reliable as the stock 5400rpm drive was. I mean, there's really nothing special about an Apple computer. When you get right down to it, get past the OS and the form-over-function design philosophy, they're nothing special. Even going back as far as the G3 at LEAST (probably farther, I just haven't played with anything older than a G3), they were never anything special. The only thing that made them different from a PC was that they were using Motorola/IBM processors instead of x86 stuff. Almost all of the other hardware they use, everything from RAM to power supplies to optical drives to the NIC and sound chips on the logic boards, is often [b]identical[/b] to what is found in Dells and Gateways and the like the world over. And when it's not, it's based on the same hardware, but with certain features selectively enabled or disabled to maintain product separation between the models in Apple's lineup, and make the machines harder and more expensive to upgrade. Heck, Apple (like most other manufacturers) doesn't even build the computers themselves... Some of their notebooks are made by ASUS, the others are made by, iirc, Compal-companies that also manufacture notebooks for Sony, HP and Dell, amongst others. What I'm getting at is that Apple uses the same components as everyone else, even more so now with the Intel machines; there's nothing special or different about the hard drive that came in your machine. As far as flash drives go, I would not recommend one at this time. First of all, flash memory has very slow write speeds. A flash drive will, when saving data, be significantly slower than your factory 5400rpm drive. Furthermore, the 2.5" solid state disks that are out there are very expensive. And building your own using a compact flash card is ill-advised from a reliability standpoint, because flash memory has a limited number of read/write cycles, and you could wear out a flash card that's not designed for use as a hard drive very, very quickly (within a matter of months) and lose all your data again. [/QUOTE]
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