Excuse me guys.

I have been forced to change my notebook hdd months ago due to the hdd failed to boot up. Since I'm reinstalling OS in another laptop , i have the time to try the Failed HDD as a external drive via USB.

It able to detect the Recover partition , but not the main C: drive. After awhile , it shows the C: drive , but i'm unable to click into the folder. It'll just hang there.

Could it be due to bad sector ? Is there any ways to repair it ?

Hope you guys could lend a helping hand.
Thank you!

This post has been edited by Andy0625: Jul 7 2010, 06:14 PM

Still that expensive?

2week ago brought 5pcs 2tb samsung for rm380/pcs. It already cheaper than WD 2tb.

How bout performance wise, bro ozak?

-pWs-

Have you tried diagnosing your hard drive for bad sectors and SMART errors with test tools such as HDDscan and CrystalDiskInfo? Bad sectors can be replaced with reserve pool sectors via low-level format tools, check for tools from your hard drive's manufacturer.

Ok gua.

1pcs in my media player. No hang or jerking when play.

4pcs in NAS. Can't test the read or write limit. Cause the limit is the NAS. Temp is around 39c - 44c.

1) I won't comment on this one.
2) I always like to build my own drive, even if it'll end a little more expensive, so (b).


2TB will be dropping in prices rapidly after PC fair........
That's all I will say.

Why la After the PC Fair! Shouldn't it be during the PC Fair?

BTW Tawau PC Fair 2-4 July already over. Morrow is JB and Alor Setar.

Samsung 1GB SATA 2 izzit detected as SATA 3 Gbps with HWinfo?

All my Seagate SATA2 500GB 16MB cache detected as SATA 1.5Gbps only even though in website clearly stating it is SATA2 3 Ggps.

So, next harddisk purchase definitely not Seagate.

Wow. Nice. RAID in your NAS??

-pWs-

is it becoz of mobo sata port?

Well... because PC Fair, technically isn't the place the suppliers are using to sell stuff cheap (okay you can score some nice deals here and there, but not everywhere of course).
Its a place they use to clear out their inventory yet selling at the price roughly the same as before the week PC fair starts, so they don't lose too much profit yet still get to clear out their intventory.


I didn't see your mobo under your sig...
Perhaps its your mobo?

U can check the cpu-z validation page got my mobo info.

I've been using GA-X48-DQ6, GA-Q35M-S2 and now using MSI P43-C51.

All three board detects my Seagate HDD 500GB SATA2 running only 1.5Gps or SATA1. I know its not the board problem since I got 1 WD 500GB Green which detected running in SATA2 3Gps mode. Maybe I will post a screenshot of HWInfo later. So far no problem using the HDD, with HWInfo and Sisoft SANDRA, I can see the true mode for my HDDs. I've tried to use AHCI mode but still detects as Sata 1.5GB.

BTW, I got 4 HDDs: (2 x 500GB Seagate, 1 x 320GB Seagate & 1 WD Green 500GB). Maybe wanna sell all Seagate then change to 2TB HDD. Casing too heavy with HDDs.

Screen shot of a WD500 SATA2 500GB (running 3Gbps) and Seagate 320+500GB SATA2 (running 1.5Gbps) on my computer using System Information for Windows (SIW) built 2009_05_12



Of course performance different un'feel'able. But hey Seagate claims in official website that the 320 and 500GB HDD are SATA-2 3.0Gbps drive

Your Seagate 500gb got jumper or not? If yes, it might be limited to by that jumper.

This post has been edited by mitodna: Jul 8 2010, 09:26 PM

how do you guys partition your haddisk? i used to put about 80gb+120gb+120gb on my old 320gb hdd, now i just get a new 1tb one and thinking to repartition the old one but wonder what size should i put

long time on dos.. or during windows setup..
or can go to Computer Management
http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/how...n-windows-vista

I think you're right.

I just double checked, I have one of my Seagate drives the same as yours.
Mine is also running at 1.5Gbps...

IIRC.. I heard something about the 7200.10 drives, despite being stated as SATA 2, it isn't.

So... yea.

same here my old seagate 7200.10 400GB reported 1.5gb/s max!!
but it's faster thab my WB blue 3.0gb/s

Sata I (1.5Gb/s) or Sata II (3.0Gbb/s) make no difference one actually, HDD capability itself never able to fill up the 1.5Gb/s aka the speed is capped by the HDD output itself, not the Sata interface.

So Sata I HDD may faster than Sata II one.

For the curious, SATA 1.5 Gbps is 150 MByte/s. Very few hard disks can hit beyond that and most still averages below 100 MByte/s.