You should get a Western Digital or Seagate HDD, samsung HDD gives lots of problem,
my friends got 3 fried samsung HDD, 3 years old each.

check my signature for more Seagate HDD info 
no, solid state HDD is way too expensive,
get a WD Raptor instead, 10x cheaper and almost as good as the solid state HDD
no, only Seagate provide 5 years warranty.

Hehe... yeah . Since that WD Green Power is a low performance HDD, so I picked this one instead which they said the 32MB cache benefits if used as system HDD. Now I'm running my OS on this 500GB HDD and backup all data on my previous 120GB Samsung Spinpoint SATA HDD.

Anyway, would there be any performance loss if I'm using SATA2 and SATA1 HDD on my SATA ports? I don't ever think even SATA2 HDD would go beyond 150MB/sec bandwidth due to mechanical HDD limit?

Alright, will trying HDTune later on .

Haha... then I wonder how come last time I could set my Samsung HDD as C:, D:, E: as default

Ya, I just bought the Seagate 500GB 7200.11 32MB SATAII HDD .

BTW, no one can help me regarding the Ultra DMA Mode setting?

But in HDTune its indicating my Seagate can go as far as UDMA-6 and my Samsung UDMA-7 summore

Anybody know which shop in LYP carry Hitachi P7K500 series harddisk?

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

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 .

Dudes, wanna ask is there any difference between a 2.5" and 3.5" external disk in terms of performance? 

Tu lah... that software crappy and unreliable... least that's what I felt... but... anyway... changing my Seagate 500GB 1 on 1 soon

I already told them my problem. I failed to format and install Windows into the Seagate 500GB thrice already

Swap with my Samsung 120GB HDD, voila ~

Only four famous HDD meh? I tot got 5?
1) Seagate
2) WD
3) Maxtor
4) Hitachi
5) Samsung

hello everyone.. i wanted to buy a new external hardisk. which brand is better? im zero about gadget, dont know abaout cache or sata thing. which one is better? is beter to buy hardisk n casing separately or use the stock. hdd casing gak 1 or 2 cable, which one is better?

CZone la... anything bought HDD that enter Seagate will come out as "Certified Seagate Repaired HDD"

wat are platters??

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.

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.

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