I got 1 very old 200Mb HardDisk from Western Digital (< 10 years.). Still can be use although now I just keep it in my store room.

1 x 40Gb Maxtor (5 Years)
1 x 40Gb Western Digital (4 Years)
1 x 160Gb Seagate (3 Years)
1 x 160Gb Maxtor (2 Years)
1 x 160Gb Western Digital SATA2 (< 1 Years)

All my HD work perfectly although 1 of my 160Gb cannot be serve as primary hd, but work as storage perfectly.

Bcoz I got 1 very old Western Digital so WD always become my first priority. However, after comparing between both my 40Gb HD, come out that my WD have higher temperature than Maxtor (check with SpeedFan). I set Maxtor as my Primary (Master) and WD as Slave. Put one on top of another. But the temperature diff. is very large. More than 5 degrees. Don't know what the cause, but I think may be the HD placing.

For 160Gb, the temperature almost the same, with 1 degree diff.

For performance, as I use for routine such surfing and mp3, can't notice any different.

I also want to know about this.

I thought some casing need the HD to install vertically but normall is horizontal. So i suppose horizontal n vertical works the same?

Read the previous 5 pages so I think it's ok to ask:

What the best bang-for-buck HDD right now? My c2d rig is currently using a 40GB IDE hard disk . Need to change liao.

4 me,any harddisk in the rm300 range is the best bang 4 the buck.so i would recommend WD 400 GB @ rm330 only or SG 320 GB @ rm290 only.take your pick. if u want more capacity,then go find it yourself.

This post has been edited by skylinegtr34rule4life: Oct 20 2007, 03:46 PM

for 500gb, cheapest is samsung, retail at rm400.
for other capacity, the prices for different brands are similar, +- 20-30 bucks.
mind you, i'm referring to prices at lowyat retail shops, not from the forumers selling at lowyat.net forum.

i use hitachi 320Gb.
quiet than my previous IDE WD n Seagate.
Nice HDD, but 3 years warranty only.

so fast, any bad comments about your hitachi? temperature wise?

C2D but still using 40GB HD. You must be kidding. 40GB is not enough for me. Installation of program already took half of it.

Go search in the garage sale. There you can get new hd with very cheap price.

I always budget below RM250 when buying a new HD. So, depending on time, last time your 40gb also cost RM250. But now you can get 320Gb.

500GB is just nice for me.

I don't want 400GB, currently I have 250GB and 320GB, so I want to get 2 times bigger capacity.

I just wondering, if the capacity is bigger than the risk of hd crash is bigger to, right? No specific reason, just wondering.

http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.ph...products_id=630

Hopefully what I am posting right now is related to this thread. I found this is a convenience for anybody who has a lot of SATA HDD. Just push in a HDD at one time. Way quicker than reassembling HDD into HDD external enclosure..

Anyone can do a bulk of this thing? Price estimation is RM 135.00

Wah... that is really a cool gadget.

i use segate SATA2 250gb
better than my previous maxtor ide hdd
i used 3 ide maxtor in 3 years..all became faulty..
changing the brand to get longer lifetime

maxtor...

btw, what is the capacity for your maxtor?
for instance, i owned 2 WD hdd with me and both having the same capacity...
both has SMART error

i was told by the seller and they said maybe this batch got problem...

Seagate good but it is a little bit warmer than others brand...

im using

maxtor 40gb ide
maxtor 60gb ide
maxtor 200gb ide

i dont think segate have heat problem because mine is not warm..using speedfan the temperature not higher than 32C..nowadays there been alot of accessory or thermal solution for pc..u can buy hdd cooler right?

hurm...

i already use two sata disk in my pc...
is there is any way that i can add another sata HD into the pc coz my mobo juz hav 2 Sata port only (old mobo with 2 pata ) - i.e., is there any kind of extension i can use...
if im not mistaken, i came across this article bout some pci card that can be use to hook up Sata Drive!

i have the same issue like you with 2 SATA on the mobo. 1 for HDD, 1 for DVD-RW and now no more left for addititional SATA HDD. Can SATA works like parallel IDE using daisy-chain?

check this terabye battle here
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/05/the...ransfer_diagram
very good 4 freaks planning 2 get 1 TB harddisk

western digital is the only hd i support, maxtor is a NONO

Maxtor already acquired by seagate.