I use acronis true image before but it a *ahem*. Now I use Maxblast. Free.

thanks for the input.

I'm thinking of buying external enclosure for 3.5" harddisk for backup purposes. The HDD is SATA2 and using USB cable to connect to PC. Please recommend things to consider before buying the enclosure.

I'm using Cooler Master X-Craft, so far so good, with one touch backup, bought it with 150. I heard last few week got promotion, without one touch backup == RM50, but limited amount only.

can anyone tell me which to buy? i around 160 gb if the price is rite..wad brand shud i focus on?

u can consider wd or seagate.

need help ~
can i claim warranty with this hdd ?
attachment is the SMART screenshot for my hdd ~ i keep on lost data (CRC error).




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any example? u cant copy out ur data inside ur hdd?

yup, some file cannot copy out from the hdd ....
it said CRC error ...

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Added on December 3, 2007, 12:07 amand the smart error rate nomber is keep on increasing ~
my question is, the shop / manufacturer accept the error report from SMART ?

This post has been edited by vex: Dec 3 2007, 12:07 AM

which is better?

I got a 2.5 inch hitachi HD. Using it more than 3 years already and still working until now.

u dun need tell the shop of the sensor software, just told them got bad sector, need warranty, then can liao.

hi all, say a enclosure only supports up to 320gb capacity,
a) what will happen if a 500gb is attach to it? cannot detect the hdd or detect the capacity as 320gb? if latter, then will the hdd work properly?
b) if partitioned the 500gb into 300gb and 200gb, can the enclosure detect them? thks~

for 160 gb sata 7200 rite..what kind of price shud i be expecting?

Hi guys i plan 2 buy a sata harddisk...i do survey around and found tat the most value buy is 320gb harddisk...anyway i heard tat is better 2 take 250gb cos the rate of RMA for 320gb harddisk is high...due to high volume..bla bla bla...is tat true??

WD raptor beware

http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3167&p=1



$37.50 per GB is ****ing pain

i suppose how long ur hard disk normally depends on how u use it and one more important thing is luck =P
sometimes v are juz unlucky get those @#$%* hard disk....

Ya, luck is important. I have bad luck on harddisk btw, everytime warranty finish will condemn themselves T_T

guys... just doing some research on HDD and i found out that there's SATA and SATA2...

SATA is 1.5Gb/s transfer rate while SATA2 is 3.0Gb/s transfer...
so actually when it comes to real life application, are we able to notice any difference on this?

maybe lets say can Windows XP boot up time improve significantly when change from SATA to SATA2?

is SATA3 available now?

thanks!

anyone kind enuf to enlighten me? thks~

I reckon External HDD can support more than 1TB.

If it won't, then there won't be Western Digital's Book and Maxtor's Lacie something which comes in 500gb, 750gb and recently 1TB.

However, I do wonder why companies are still manufacturing Parallel ATA hard disk since they are so keen in phasing out those. These days only external hdd uses PATA, all internal HDD are SATA or would be SATA2 by now.

I am going to get a 500gb Western Digital HDD or Seagate. Don't really understand why Seagate is way more expensive than Western Digital here. While in Aussie it is price exactly the same for both WD and Seagate.