I did mention from its manufacturer website, check your stuff here: http://support.wdc.com/download/

No matter how it fall, how high it fall from and also how it landed... all the measure the same... do a throughout diagnostic on your drive ... unless already broken into pieces or leaked, that's another story (you could have dropped it from few storeys if this happened )

It is me or empire23 mentioned about the hassle? For me, I didn't need to do much except slipsteam the SATA drivers into the Windows bootable installation disc and voila ~ it worked without need to install the SATA driver via FFD. Just proceed like how you install Windows into IDE mode HDD, the SATA drivers already loaded along with the Windows CD . Instruction wise: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/501772

However, do remember that you will need a fresh installation of Windows if you're migrating from IDE mode to AHCI mode

is wd essential edition 1TB good..wat do u guys advise??

how many platters does it use? it is not advisable to use hdds with more than 3 platters

wat are platters??

advise u to google first for it.

omg i google-d it but i stil dun understand...i am a person wif 0 knowledge about pc..pls help me..

the plates that hold the magnetic data. it's like a cd, with bits of 0 and 1 written on it. the difference is data is stored magnetically as oppposed to optically on the cd/dvd/bluray/hddvd/laserdisc.

each hard drive has at least one platter. typical desktop hdd has 3, while unique ones have more or less. less is better, but a platter has only so much data density. so lets say the latest ones might have 320 GB/ platter density, so putting one, two, and three platters on a drive can adjust the capacity of the said hard drive.

but with more platters, the chances of mechanical failures increases. ideally, one platter is best: less power consumption, less heat, less noise, less weight, etc.

but SSDs are most handsome, only that macbook air is shit crap. but i digressed.

Using 2 year old 80GB Maxtor and a 1 year old 250GB Seagate here!

But I'm getting hdd cant be detected problem on my maxtor these days though.

Is it normal to have hdd can't be detected problems??

And what's causing it??

heh, the last time (for a year) i have those problem is due to the lack of power. i jsut realized that ercently and boughta new power supply. i have 5 hdds running.

also, my external notebook hdds always have those probs - cant detect.

thx dude...trying to understand..so how do i go about checking the hdd i wan to buy has how many platters??no info is given about platters for in hdd

goooooogle. it's easy

ur ext hdd is ho wmany gb? u got use the extra power cable for it?

the one i had was extracted from an old hdd, so it was bound to fail. i didnt need to use any extra power cable.

i also have a 160gb WD passport. i never had any problem getting it recognized in any computer.

but 160gb is too expensive, why dun u just diy?

nah, it was a deal at officedepot.com for $80. the cheapest DIY i oculd get is $20 (casing) + $85 (160gb hdd)

although the WD passport only has 1 year warranty as oppposed to 5 years by seagate, since im leaving for UK in less than 2 years, i didnt mind too much

RM80 or $80 ar?

Is the WD Caviar SE16 drives any good ? is it available in LYP ?
I'm planning to get a 320gb drive, mainly use for OS/Apps/Games/files...so i guess can be said use for everything la...any recommendation ?

has anyone buy 1 TB harddisk here yet

Anyone here using the Seagate 500GB 7200.11 32MB SATA2 HDD? I been having numerous problem on it and been troubleshooting for the main culprit and no luck so far

Always having disk read error... failed with paging the hdd... iastor error (AHCI & RAID only)... and ntfs error... now I'm reformatting and setting back to SATA IDE mode. Lets see what's next...

for pata, u can go for seagate
for sata, u can go for WD.