alamak!
*poof* suddently....maybe hdd going to be....erm...!!

haha!!!!!! just wonder only!!!!!
if i am not mistaken, long time ago they provided with box right!!?? hmmm!!
heh heh!!!

but why this day of the hdd quality and unreliable?!
my Quantum hdd still working compare with the 1 year old WD....!!!

nevertheless, i have to buy larger hdd space for storing my data temp. before burned into DVD+R/s.

This post has been edited by victorboy: Oct 9 2005, 06:52 PM

Depends on the drives you buy, for high reliablity, i suggest using WD's RAID edition and Raptor series, for Maxtor, it seems their MAXLine is good choice and Seagate's normal drives are good too.

Try looking at the MTBF rating of a drive before buying it.

well, as I'm a user here, lemme share my experience......dun ever, ever get maxtor......at all cost, juz avoid it....Western Digital, Seagate and Samsung are good HDD's....so do consider urself....WD Raptors are fast, Seagate Barracuda's are fast and a lot more

yeah i think so too, so i'm thinking if i should buy another hdd...
ah.. come with box a? dunno le... cuz i just got interested in this stuff like, starting of year 2005 only.. that's why i'm still a newb..



^ well... i back him up 100%... first day got adi then spoil...

im still using maxtor 7200rpm..
use since 2001 until now...
no bad sector..
no prob..

This post has been edited by medichloreans: Oct 9 2005, 09:00 PM

Yeap... Almost 3 years edi and my Maxtor 40 GB is still serving me well... It's just that the maxtor hdd gets hot pretty quickly as for 40GB that time, it was quick a thin hdd...

Anyways, I think sometimes it depends on luck, I bought a WD1600 last year to use it as an ext hdd, I am not sure whether it's my hdd's problem or the ext casing power supply, the hdd now once in a while will emit some "tick tick" sound...

Got another WD2500 and using it as another ext hdd... It's working fine until today... though I must admit I just got this hdd for like,4 month...

using maxtor currently serve me well without any problems

using 120gig WD external 7200rpm..nothing happen...but my laptop toshiba 30gig have bad sector...[asi post in my BSOD thread.. ]

Got a 320gig WD 3.5" [external] and a 60gig samsung 2.5" hdd....the seller said samsung is the best "boyz" for laptop n the WD is the best among others in desktop hdd...what u guys reckon??

maxtor some good some bad... depends on your luck lor...

inconsistency is something that we should avoid

ic....
MTBF = for mean time between failures.
I never think of this term before purchasing hdd, OMG! haha!!!

Thanks empire23!!

by the way i love your avatar, cool man!! heh heh!!

I just found this side using the google search!!
Quite interesting!!

Overall Reliability : MTBF & APR

hdd in a box ? when i bought my maxtor hdd 3 years back it came in abox(its still working).. but dunno how come today all come in anti static bags only ... lol

cost saving or maybe it would be an OEM version!!!!!
dunno haha!!!
yah, last time Maxtor did provided and store inside the box, and my Quantum hdd, store in hard transparent plastic with anti static bag, if i am not mistaken!



This post has been edited by victorboy: Oct 10 2005, 01:33 AM

OMG!!!!
so far i lost several CAD files, important, but no choice cannot copied and to be moved and 1 single chapter of anime....

i try to copy the error message see anyone can help me this or not, else, i have to regain the file again.

Ok here is the message i got from my WD80 PATA harddisk!!!!





anyone got any ideas of solving above error, else, i think i have to format that partition and delete the file as well.

erm..hehe...
a minor technical help from me in this thread!

i couldn` care less oem or not as long it does not rosak and everything hilang is good enough already ...

That's the point haha!!!
my ex-WD , 80g, 1 year old, hdd has S.M.A.R.T error, and lost some of my important data!! But manage to back up 80% of the data, better than nothing. I say 80% because come file unable to copied, data lock, and some corrupted eventhough sucessfully backup.

Hmmm, suggest you boot up in DOS and try to copy it to another HDD. Either that or doing a low level format, although personally i'd junk the HDD and get one of those sweet high reliability disks.

IMO, Maxtor are VERY unreliable....had one maxtor 40GB 5400rpm died on me erly dis year....warranty period was over....n another maxtor SATA died on my other computer within a year after pruchase...

apparently i am currently using a Maxtor 120GB according to my sig...hope it wont fail me anytime soon....my suggestion, u can get any other brand besides maxtor...WD proved to be pretty reliable...