i am using one at the moment, no problem with it. I did change what AHCI or RAID thing.

wat is the manufacturer country of ur hdd?

Thailand

This post has been edited by jasonkwk: Mar 19 2008, 02:48 AM

i dunno if this is about hard disk or not
i won the memorex 160gb 2.5" from HWM
its frustrating to use it cuz gotta connect both the power up usb and the usb wire
so u need 2 extra slots
i have like 12 slots (8 + 4 from hub) but isnt that a waste


i dunno about u
but i tried both brands for both systems
and never failed me
in fact, i suka rosakkan my hdd's within warranty (not purposely but it always terbakar, pin patah, etc etc like 5 exchanges in 6 months)
now the seagate company in singapore surely mad at me cuz always got kotak with my name on it
haha

never fail u but terbakar, etc in 6 month for each?
so tat mean u destroy ur own hdd even dun got the chance yet to test the durability of both brand, right?

i just got wd 1tb hdd..hope it doesnt fail me..pray hard..

Have you swapped your hardisk for a new one? Same problem?

It may be that your PSU is suspect. Check the 5V output and see if it fluctuates. Swap with another PSU and try or don't load your PC with too many things. See if it helps.

my blacklisted harddisk

wd , samsung , maxtor

Already contacted with my motherboard manufacturer distributor technician and it said that it could be possible with a HDD firmware that doesn't match well with the motherboard BIOS at the moment, that's what said which according to their experience in dealing with this kind of problem. So their advise was try to use the jumper to set the HDD to run max at 1.5Gb/s. If that solve the problem, then they might conclude the problem due to BIOS and HDD firmware incompatibility.

However, I just reformatted my HDD and return to IDE mode state with a different SATA cable. Kinda stable now ... which mean the SATA cable is the main culprit . Anyway, still can't conclude anything yet at this moment.

It is because the HDD couldn't draw enough power from the USB thus another connector is required to provide the enough power. Your USB port some are still 1.1? Anyway, even you are using a USB Hub also, the power still considering draw from one port. It doesn't mean that a USB Hub port will provide the same amount of power as a single native USB port due to power split among the ports in the hub

Yeah, swapped initially when I couldn't reformat and reinstall OS into the C: partition already. Anyway, everything seems to be fine at this moment when I switched back into IDE mode with a different SATA cable

pls try with tat previous sata cable to try install to check whether really the fw issue or cable issue.

err... i'm looking a hdd for my laptop. Are there any suggestions? And what's the difference between SATA, PATA and IDE? btw. I think 100gb is enough for me. Sorry too. I know nothing about PC actually. X)

I would like to ask regarding the RAID function.
Now I running a single 320GB hdd, so I plan to add another one more 80GB hdd to run RAID 0. My question is, do I need to reformat my hdd in order to enable RAID 0? Or just plug in the extra hdd and enable RAID ok ald?

has anyone seen the WD6400AAKS or the Samsung F1 640Gb?
interested to know the pricing and availability

hi...stucked between this 2..WD500KS/CS 500GB 7200 SATA2 RM319...adn this..RAPTOR74 74GB 10000 SATA 545...
10000RPM speed...large diff?if not..not goibng to take it

Hi ppl, I was cutting & pasting 700mb worth of files at once from partition d to partition c which is in the same harddisk and I only get a transfer rate of 5mb/s, is that normal? My harddisk is WD 160GB 8MB.

pata is same as ide. ur laptop is using pata or sata hdd now?

if u want to play with raid, both hdd must be same size.

u can get scsi performance with tat ler, but small capacity plus expensive ler.

had u enable ur dma in ur windows yet?

what's dma??

Heard that maxtor cause a lot of trouble these day...

Didn't know really..just a hear say...

But it happen once when my old maxtor 40g got bad sector...

and after that can't use it anymore....

To lazy to redeem warranty....So far meh..

guys...i jus wondering which one better and long lasting.western digital or samsung.currently consider to select 1Tb sata hdsk.samsung quite promoted by HWM..consider d w.d and samsung,which one will be gud in term of data safe,long lasting,temp,etc...
anyone know n got some experince use either of them?

for me, still prefer seagate.
my 80GB still serve me well...