Are both Maxtor and Seagate Hard Drives compatible with Mac OSX?
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yes, the harddrive for pc's and macs are the same, you just have to format them properly for the machine.
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I would suggest a Maxtor or Seagate brand.\nCheck out Pricewatch.com for low prices.
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Is the drive USB or firewire? You may have a bad port on the desktop. To check this:\ngo to the apple menu in the top left corner\nchoose about this mac. when the window pops up, select more info...\nthis opens System profiler\nclick on usb and firewire to see if they register. If it says nothing, there's your problem.\n\nIf all ports are working, try this:\ngo to applications - utilities and open disk utility\nplug in your drive and see if it appears\n\nif it still doesn't appear, choose mount drive from the menus at the top while in disk utilityq
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Yea all those answers are good but if people are too technical savy you can always look into an apple based NAS, you can easily fit 7TB of data in a 4-5U chassis. Apple has complete support for Active directory and Windows Domain use, infact you can even start an AD or Windows Domain using the apple server. I am not pushing for apple but we use it where I work and they look great and are flawless
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Raxco's PerfectDisk is better than Diskeeper.\n\nhttp://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/
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The SATA specification is reverse compatible. And you will not need to play with jumpers to achieve this.\n\nSeagate helped to pioneer SATA and released the first SATA drive. They have a wealth of reading material on their site.
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http://pcsupport.about.com/od/pcmaintenance/a/scandisk.htm
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Just note on getting the "exact" information from your old drive to a new drive... Manufacturers like maxtor have a built  in hard disk copy program in their MAXBLAST utilities, as do many other hard disk companies. You have to get the disks working on the same computer though... and only the newest widescreen laptops have 2 harddrives! You can use a utility from the manufacturer, like MAXBLAST to copy the entire contents to a "new" drive, by getting asmall laptop-to-IDE\nconverter and plugging in the drive to a Desktop, and running the program from a floppy ( newer versions allow you to run in windows, iff you don't "boot" from the new drive).\nyou could copy the image to a big drive in your DESKTOP, and then, put in your other new laptop drive, and copy the image back to the new laptop drive.\nIf you got 2 cable converters, you could plug both the old and the new laptop drives, say as master and slave on the \ncable normally connected to the 2 CD ROMS, and run the programs. Another approach is to use a program like Norton GHOST, and make a CD 'IMAGE" of the first drive. Then install th esecond drive, and use a floppy with GHOST on it to copy the CD to the NEW drive.\n Partition Magic may also help you get an image of the first drive....\n If you have a CD burner, and the information fits on a standard CD ( the image is compressed to 1/2 the size of the  original data, so that with 700 megs, you are copying 1.4 gig... ) If you have a DVD burner, then you you can copy \nabout twice as much information as the DVD burner capability,\ndepending on whether it is dual or single layered...\n You can also copy the Partion magic, or GHOST image, or\nother similar utility's image, to an ETHERNET connected harddrive, and use GHOST or whatever to copy the entire contents back to the laptop. ( It is a bit difficult to do unless you are network guru ). You could also copy the image to an EXTERNAL harddrive attached to the laptop, and then copy the image back...\n\nIf I were you, I would ask around at local laptop repair shops, to get their input on what "they" use and recommend to quickly replicate laptop harddrive contents...\n\nhope this gives you a few more ideas to play with...\n\nrobin
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It doesn't have to be the EXACT same drive.  In reality it doesn't even have to be the same size.  BUT it is recommended they be the same type/size for best performance and to eliminate "waste".  What does need to be identical is the partition sizes on both drives. Another 7200rpm 160MB SATA HDD would be recommended in your case.
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a 15,000 RPM harddrive\nfind it on newegg\nit is so expensive i never bothered to look it up\n...\n5 minutes later::\n\nHA, found it\nSeagate Cheetah\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822111152\n147gb\nBrand Seagate \nSeries Cheetah 15K.4 \nModel ST3146854LC \nPerformance \nInterface SCSI Ultra320 80pin \nCapacity 147GB \nRPM 15,000 RPM \nCache 8MB \nAverage Seek Time 3.5ms \nAverage Write Time 4.0ms \nAverage Latency 2ms \nPhysical Spec \nForm Factor 3.5" \nFeatures \nFeatures Some motherboards are not compatible with the SCSI interface. Please confirm which interface is appropriate for your system!\nBackground Media Scan\nEnhanced Error Correction Code\nFluid Dynamic Bearing Motor\nFull Duty Cycle Reliability \n\nPrice?\nhahahaha, if you can afford it \nit is 759.99 bucks\nmore of less 760 buckeroos\nthen there is a $5.94 shipping fee\nand this is on one of the cheapest sites (price wise, not quality)
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never tried them, always used seagate... why fix something that doesn't cause u headache. go seagate?
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You need to verify that your controller supports hot-swap.  Some early controllers did not support this.  Also I think many cheap on-board controllers may not support it.  Also remember you can't hot swap your OS drive.\n\nBut the short answer is no, raid is not required to have a hot swap sata drive.
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assuming both systems are ibm compatibles or both are macintosh then the problem would be with the drive itself. if you have a mac at work and an ibm at home, or the other way around this is your issue and all you can do at this point is get with the manufacturer and see if they provide a disk for your appropriate system. if indeed you are running the same style platform at home as at work then it is your drive. time for a new one.
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best thing would be to go t seagate's support site, and find out what they say you can do with it
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I don't know of any "personal" computers that still support that combination.  Modern systems are quite different from some of the older systems, and a modern PC or MAC is several times as powerful and has much more storage built in.\n\nI did not know it was not a good idea!  My old IBM, (a mini-mainframe), uses both tape drives, (reel to reel) and "old" disc drives, (it uses "disc packs" that you can change manually), and they are on the same "data-addressing" busses.\n\nAs a matter of fact, I don't think ANY "personal" computers still use the SCSI buss. (Modern ATA, IDE, EIDE, and now SATA drives have all but eliminated the advantages the SCSI buss system.)
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An apple hard drive will not work in a compaq computer because they are not compatible at all.
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just buy a good drive, maxtor ( now seagate ) or western digital\nmake sure the interface is the same ( it's probaly PATA and not SATA is you got a 33gb hardrive ), most all are 7200 rpm\nyour biggest problem will be weather or not your bios can handle a drive over 137Gb if you get one that big, you also did not mention your OS, and what you be foramtting the drive to ( FAT32 or NTFS ).