which brand da best....?
does harddisk effect pc performance..??

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

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

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

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?

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.

   

Well, I can safely say that Samsungs generally are the quietest in terms of idel and seek noise and coolest in terms of operating temperature. Good for HTPC use. Performance is also very close to the fastest WD or Seagate drives, if not faster !

Currently have 3 x 750GB Samsung F1 (32MB cache) in RAID 0.

Any experience to back this up?

Any worse than Seagate or WD?

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?

If you can't detect it on most PC...then the only way is go to low yat, there is a data recovery shop if I not mistaken...try ask them about the price first before let them recover for you. But if your hard disk is completely dead then no chance to recover your data I think...

All IT, i did not verified the price, but it is true for the 320GB WD for 208MYR

the list price there for 500GB is 258MYR, but there sticker there stick is 278MYR, but the man told me, he got discount, since buy more hard disk, so the price is 258MYR, so nice, the 500GB is GP series too

all is SATA

Best is WD for me now. Had nightmare with Seagate recently, sweat

anyone know how to RMA from Maxtor? I had a old 80GB hardisk broken, warranty will end this November.

when do you think 640GB Seagate appears?

404 now?last week i saw 400...
wise take 750 than 640 i think.32mb right..

you are not the only one



I spend the whole day yesterday to fix 486KB of bad sector, damn tiring....zzzzzzzz

Currently I have a Seagate 7200.11 500GB and Samsung Spinpoint 120GB in my rig. I need to expand the capacity of storage for my HD movies.

Should I get another Seagate 7200.11 500GB to do RAID or hentam Samsung F1 1TB? Any opinion?

anyone know wad brand of SSD is good for desktop ??

Hi-def also...

Going to hoot 1 WD 1TB this weekend...make my rig with 3.2 TB...hahaz

LOL... basically I just bought a WD My Book Home Edition 1TB solely to store HDs and sharing as well

owhh is it rite external hd can run for 24/7?but d size 2`5 ext hdd a little bit bigger than  2`5 wit exclosure.i plan to buy wd element ext hdd is it gud ext hdd?ext hdd come wit usb power rite?