medium Remember few months ago, in april, I changed my old G5 Powermac for the new Nehalem 2009, with an external hard drive enclosure of 10Tb.
At that moment, the Seagate 1.5Tb drive was the biggest one availlable, and with far better throughoutput than the 1Tb drives availlable.

The problem is that this Seagate drive (ST31500341AS) does not work with hardware RAID, and as reported on Seagate forums, with a lot or S-ATA controlers. See how people are complaining there. Solution : NEVER BUY SEAGATE DRIVES AGAIN !!!!

Today I went to the store and grab two of the new Hitachi 2Tb drives :

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This drive have 5 platter of 400Mb each, and 32Mb of RAM. You can find all the specs in this PDF file from Hitachi website.

The interesting thing with this drive is that, even if not reported to be working with either Highpoint RAID cards or Enhance Technology enclosure (maybe it’s too soon), the Highpoint 432x is listed as compatible on Hitachi’s website compatibility list.

And, indeed, it does work !

More screen grab of most of the benchs tools will be availlable soon. For the moment, using only two drives in RAID 1 proved to be faster than the two Seagates (for the few minutes a test can run before the drives get offlined).
Next step : buy the 6 missing drives to fill the array and use the 1.5Tb Seagate drives as internal storage in the PowerMac itself.