Seagate sucks these days June 3, 2007
Seriously I am not going to buy any of their drives without reading every review first, starting with the lowest ratings.
So let’s build a Mac Pro!
This is what you should go with from Apple (please note: I don’t even know if the dual screens I added will even work since I think each needs it’s own dual headed card):
- Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
- 1GB (2 x 512MB)
- 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
- ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB (2 x dual-link DVI)
- Apple Cinema HD Display (30″ flat panel)
- Apple Cinema HD Display (30″ flat panel)
- Two 16x SuperDrives
- Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
- Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple wireless Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
- Mac OS X - U.S. English
- AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro/Power Mac (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll
Rarely will I upgrade much on the apple site that I can do myself, primarily because they charge $4499 for 16 GB of ram by using eight 2 GB sticks (of FB-DIMM, ECC, PC5300). Getting the same RAM is only $180 a stick of 2 GB at NewEgg, so you could save over THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS by upgrading it yourself. I’m sure that’s worthwhile. However, with the hard drives, unless you like doing it you’re only paying Apple from $25 to $50 or so to upgrade you to 750GB, so it’s not as bad [only if you're upgrading the first hard disk, though, additional 750GB drives cost $500, double the price of buying one yourself]. There are, however, 1000GB disks out now.
So let’s pretend you decided you want 4TB of space. Ok, $1,600.
The totals:
From Apple: $8,330.00 + tax
From Newegg: $1,871.91 + ship (16gb of ram, one 1TB drive)
+ $400
+ $400
+ $400
(why the quantity limit of one, newegg?)
Total: $11,401.91
What if you let apple do it and you upgraded to four 750gb drives, ending up with less total? $14,376.00, my friend. So for 1000 GB more, and RAM that has a lifetime warranty (as opposed to whatever warranty you get on the computer), you save $2,974.09.
Three thousand dollar ‘lazy penalty’, since anyone can do these upgrades. Welp.
Here’s a eye openner for their warranty service - I just returned a failed 650gb external hard drive (6 months old)
Model: ST3650640U2-RK and Seagate sent it back to me with no explanation. I have no recourse they’re bigger than me. People need to know Seagate sucks on warranties and customer service with no regard. Unbelievable capitalistic attitude!!!
Phil
Yeah, I have had 4 seagate 500GB SATA hard drives within that past 6 months thinking that maybe I was having a stroke of bad luck but its seagates “BAD BUSINESS PRACTICES” thats the problem here, this company has gone down the tubes in the past 3 years. Im personally through with them forever!!!!