ur raptor got how many gb?

just discovered something, seagate has the worst fitness. mine is on the edge of breakdown. 1 of it is constantly showing symptom of breaking down. based on the figures, both my seagates have lowest spin retry count and the most terrible seek retry rate. so stay away from seagate. they cannot handle to much stress as compared to maxtor and WD.

ho wu check tat? coz i m using seagate now ler

Please show the prove....I have been use Seagate for more than 6 years liao....

Maybe you are one of the unlucky ones that got those faulty batches

western digital PATA 40G... the 2nd best, the best is still maxtor, quantum bigfoot.... 2Gig!!! lasted me 10years... still going strong... aha... but took it off recently... waste space... using 5 inch one.. get cdrw rom better..

guys, i need your opinions here. i'm getting a 250gb hdd and i have a few options here: seagate, western d or hitachi. dont think i'll consider maxtor or samsung. the only plus point i see for seagate is the 5 years warranty by them, while the rest is just normal 3 years only.

my main usage is to store data, thus durability is the main point here. i guess performance and quiet-ness comes second to that. what will u guys suggest?

one more thing, i found that there are 2 models for the seagate series, "Barracuda 7200.9" and "Barracuda 7200.10". anyone can brief me about this?

opinions from u guys will be appreciated, thanks

This post has been edited by popiah04: Nov 1 2006, 11:00 PM

For performance, go for seagate 7200.10, NCQ + Perpendicular recording does make difference. but in return, u got a hotter hdd ( 38c ~ 44c ) which require active cooling. Else, go for hitachi or wd. benchmark shows mixed for these two brand in terms of performance. but my choice will be hitachi. require less voltage for operation which means runs cooler. i prefer T7K500 series rather than T7K400 series which will carry 16mb cache + NCQ as stated here

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/T7k500/T7k500_ov.htm

But, its hard to find the T7K500 series as none of our bulker doing bulk of it.

just my 2 cents.

one more question, how come i cant find any lowyat shops selling hitachi hdd? its not too expensive compare to the other brands though. i'm refering to the price list at lowyat.net front page. low market demand, eh?

and er, what does "Perpendicular recording" mean? i guess seagate 7200.10 with NCQ means 16mb cache right. thanks again

Who say dun have Hitachi?

czone, pczone, sri, startec and winchance also have. Winchance have many type, PATA 2mb and 8mb, SATA...

guys.. i want to ask you guys here that my HDD here is running on SATA2 speed right? thanks.

This post has been edited by 6GDominator: Nov 4 2006, 06:23 PM

as i know wd hdd also hav 5 yrs warranty 4 now

winchance.

since when? didnt saw at lowyat ler.

WD 250Gb hv 5 yrs warranty, but only happen recently.

Guys i'm thinking of getting WD320GB to replace my old probably 2yo WD250GB because it sounds really really sick and it's causing my PC to hang sometimes. But the 320GB is Sata 2 while my Mobo is only Sata 1. Will it work ?

edit: gah nvm it's backward compatible...

This post has been edited by Joseph Hahn: Nov 10 2006, 11:34 PM

if u think its faulty..why dun u take it to RMA???
after tht u can stll use it or sell it with better price...

but need do scandisk b4 rma ler.

what is the best branded hdd in town ...seagate or maxtor ...

lol maxtor is under seagate. and nobody ever mentions ''maxtor'' in the same sentence as ''best"

ok thx for info mate ..
i din noe maxtor is under seagate ..juz noe in northan region of malaysia no more seagate company ...all bankrupt ..