I put a 7200 seagate in mine and it's faster now. I couldn't say by how much though. On both drives I could run like 50 tracks of audio with plugins and mastering on the buss. I would say instead of replacing the drive, buy a large external firewire 800 drive and make it bootable. This way you have a backup drive, something you'll need anyway if you want insurance on your music, you get to keep your apple care which you will need for something else at some point, and if your drive does crash you can just run your computer off your bootable external backup. Trust me, this is easy to set up and probably your best route.<br>
<br>check out this website for great deals on quality external drives / ram / whatever you need for your mac<br><br><a href="http://www.macsales.com/">http://www.macsales.com/</a><br><br>Making a drive bootable can easily be done using the disks that came with your mac. Whole thing done and running in less than an hour... and yes the 7200 internal will be louder.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:14 PM, i8u <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muse@i8u.com">muse@i8u.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
sure why not? something to remember it by!<br>
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> You're going to record it for our collection of hard drive noises right? :<br>
> )<br>
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