yes, in the bios screen but i think it will alert too in windows enviroment.

This post has been edited by super macgyver: Feb 3 2006, 03:25 PM

hi, i wanna ask if it is OK to mix HDD brands in a PC. Say, i have a WD drive and now i want a Seagate as a secondary, will it be ok?

thanx.

also no problem with mixed lah.

ic, thanx man. My cousin was using WDs. His secondary WD fked up after only one year. Im telling him to get a Seagate replacement. Seagate rox!

wd hdd in my company pc die after just 1 year, all data gone, lucky i have backup

Personal experience.. for reliability, go with Seagate.. for performance, go with WD.

I would never buy Maxtor again.. two Maxtors died on me.. had one repaired since it was under warranty.. but it died again a year later.

tat also same goes to my fren both seagate.

what is NCQ? how will it affect performance? i hear winxp cant use NCQ but VIsta can? my 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA got NCQ or not?

now i got 3 hdd, 1 hitachi 40gb pata, 1 ibm 40gb pata, 1 wd 80gb sata, hitachi hdd is using more than 5 year still rock and fast

erm....failure rate for Maxtor quite high? erm my Maxtor still not yet fail me yet...have been using my 40GB Maxtor for quite a few years edi for gaming n apps..no prob so far

maxtor is famous of bad sector actually, better u just scan ur hdd more frequent.

http://www.storagereview.com/php/benchmark..._1=313&devCnt=2

Samsung SpinPoint P120 no NCQ (250 GB SATA)

or

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 with NCQ (250 GB SATA)



currently using Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 (200 GB SATA bought April 2005) LYP guy said got NCQ already

This post has been edited by pilotHans: Feb 8 2006, 05:31 PM

what is the function of ncq?

here more on the durability on hdd than speed.

im getting a lot of these errors in event viewer.

The device, \Device\Harddisk1\D, has a bad block.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

i have a feeling my wd is going to die soon. '
since seagate has a reputation for reliability, i'm thinking of getting one.
the 250gb sata2 seems the best bang for buck

seagate hdd also facing a high failure like wd did but unlike maxtor tat terible yet.

maxtor i think has the highest failing rate....

i hate maxtor HDD.. it always fail me on my old pc.. when u are having power failure or something.. it will kill your data inside..

wat u mean by power failure?

Talk to a person in the IT business.
Looks like Maxtor gave the biggest profit margin that is why you find Maxtor being push by all salesman in the PC industry.

He mention for the best quality\reliability is Hitachi follow by Seagate
For best perfomance select WD but noisy and more heat and is good for gaming.

I only use Hitachi and Seagate.

In case you do not know, Hitachi bought over the IBM HDD busineess
some years ago so basically you are buying IBM HDD.

Years ago, mention IBM and you shake your head because you cannot afford anything that is IBM branded.

But now ,IBM HDD and PC is so affordable and I wonder why no one ask for them anymore.