u can try at startec.

where to get 7200.11 500GB ? thanks, SG selling SGD220?

me looking for the 7200.11 320gb...cant find in Mid Valley...only got .10

eh wait.... .11 got 320gb ah?? or is it 500gb only?

7200.11 minimum storage is 500GB so u couldnt get the 320GB.

crap....yeah i just saw the web site

oh well...time to download the pricelist

but 7200.11 which comes with 32mb internal cache & that would certainly blow WD off the ground.

yeah i know...thats why im looking for the 7200.11

but i just want 320gb...500gb is kinda overkill for me in terms of size and price

think ill just settle for 320gb seagate or wd la haih.

Nope, haven't install Vista for myself before in my life so far .

U just got my PM . Can get it at LYP .

Hahaha... actually it is no big deal with the drive partition letters. Just I'm preferring everything could be "in order" so it would just looks much neater . I didn't care much and just splitted my 500GB into 5 partitions. It would be a pain if you're gonna defrag a large partition leh .

Need to switch to AHCI mode?

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 is utilizing 250GB per platter drive. So you would only see 500GB, 750GB and 1TB at the moment .

500GB 7200.11 available in 16MB internal cache as well. They mentioned the cache only would benefit if you're using it as system drive. If using it just for data storage, it doesn't matter I guess

where notebook users dn get to enjoy...SPACE

larger cache can reduce the seek times mar.

Anyway, do I need to ENABLE ACHI MODE for my SATA?

Currently it's running on IDE mode and there are IDE, RAID and ACHI to pick from.

Anyway, just faced a few BSOD while rebooting my Windows . No idea what happened but finally I managed to load Windows after the 5th attempt .

Try scan ur new hdd for bad sectors.

Use Windows's Utility ScanDisk? Or any good application to be recommended?

Windows just crashed just now and recovered using Windows Recovery .

Beside Windows's ScanDisk and also HDTune, is there any other application to check on the error of the harddisk?

doh
AHCI = advance host controller interface
you can go up to udma-7

and check the SMART attribute on the drives via HDtune/speedfan for error log counters

you can try check at seagate website see whether they provide a software to do so...you can also try Spinrite which is recommeded by someone in tomshardware forum...but that software is not free...



Edited to add: I just found the diagnostic tool from seagate website...http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/

This post has been edited by Kataro: Feb 12 2008, 11:06 PM

Then, should I go for AHCI? That would require me to reinstall Windows. That's ok for me since I just did a Windows Recovery as my Windows crashed of all sudden . Still diagnosing the HDD... hopefully that is not the culprit *pray*.

If I wanted to use AHCI mode, I will need to install the SATA driver before proceeding with Windows installation. My floppy disk drive kaputed, any cure or other solution?

Yeah, I found that SeaTools as well and just installed the "SeaTools for Windows" version. Will be trying to scan the HDD now .

not sure if your lanparty in on ich8 or 9, but if youre lucky, XP SP2 still bootable/recognize ich8 without driver installation (if i remember correctly)
try boot up in AHCI

oh shi!! its vista

This post has been edited by e-jump: Feb 13 2008, 07:12 AM

Mine is ICH9R. Anyway, I don't think I can avoid that SATA driver installation if I ever wanted to change SATA mode to ACHI. Anyway, really benefiting if I switched from SATA mode IDE to ACHI?

I read from the net that it could use the Native Command Queuing (NQC), true ah? As I heard only expensive RAID card capable of utilizing NCQ .

do you boot from IDE drive? i heard that ACHI booting required 'new' installation?