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post Feb 17 2006, 04:56 PM

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QUOTE(rainmankl @ Feb 16 2006, 05:09 PM)
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.
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u can find hitachi pc hdd in the market? drool.gif
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post Feb 20 2006, 09:11 PM

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i got my new Seagate 80G 2MB...
not sur ehow long it can survive.... sweat.gif
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post Feb 20 2006, 09:15 PM

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QUOTE(victorboy @ Feb 20 2006, 09:11 PM)
i got my new Seagate 80G 2MB...
not sur ehow long it can survive....  sweat.gif
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don worry lah dude. i sure that the HDD is working fine but i wonder if you will throw it away as the speed of loading of info inside it. tongue.gif
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QUOTE(super macgyver @ Feb 17 2006, 04:56 PM)
u can find hitachi pc hdd in the market?  drool.gif
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yaya.. also interested here. i wonder where can get the Hitachi HDD as the reviews of this HDD brand is so good.
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post Feb 21 2006, 12:07 PM

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QUOTE(rainmankl @ Feb 16 2006, 05:09 PM)
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.
Hmm.. Do you know WHY IBM sold their HDD business (back) to Hitachi? Have you heard of the DeskStar 75GXP.. AKA the DeathStar? rolleyes.gif

Check out IBM Deskstar 75GXP Class Action Website. And FYI, Fujitsu also had a class action suit resulting in exit from the desktop market. See HDD Class Action Settlement Website. cool.gif

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post Feb 22 2006, 05:55 PM

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alamak... just bought a used maxtor diamond plus 160gb from another member... rm200... pray nothing bad will happen...
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post Feb 22 2006, 07:02 PM

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Got me a Seagate 80GB NCQ SATAII, startup Windows on my system is ok...'bout 10~15sec (on Windows loading section). But the shuting down speed was like hitting a NOS inside it......DAMN fast|!!!!

Dunno izzit gotta do with my rig or wat?! thumbup.gif
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post Feb 22 2006, 11:50 PM

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is it normal for a maxtor 160gb ide hdd that really hot? or should i get those hdd cooler to cool down the extreme heat?
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post Feb 23 2006, 08:39 AM

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Blackout. HD worst enemy. So get a good HD ... and a good UPS. dry.gif I had a lot of blackout these few months and my Maxtor 300GB started to give bad sectors. Just 4KB but it's there ... and everytime Windows startup, it always want to check the HD. I've started burning like mad and hopefully maybe i'll get another drive soon. Probably WD.
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Seriously, I'm starting to have doubts in toshiba notebook hdds.

My friend's hdd died few weeks ago, then it's another friend's hdd and mine died few days ago. All of us are using toshiba hdds sad.gif

Got myself a samsung 60 GB due to the limited choice, hopefully it'll work out fine. laugh.gif
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QUOTE(Joseph Hahn @ Feb 23 2006, 08:39 AM)
Blackout. HD worst enemy. So get a good HD ... and a good UPS. dry.gif I had a lot of blackout these few months and my Maxtor 300GB started to give bad sectors. Just 4KB but it's there ... and everytime Windows startup, it always want to check the HD. I've started burning like mad and hopefully maybe i'll get another drive soon. Probably WD.
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mine also suffer 8kb, u better start low level format it asap.

QUOTE(Geminist @ Feb 23 2006, 08:45 AM)
Seriously, I'm starting to have doubts in toshiba notebook hdds.

My friend's hdd died few weeks ago, then it's another friend's hdd and mine died few days ago. All of us are using toshiba hdds sad.gif

Got myself a samsung 60 GB due to the limited choice, hopefully it'll work out fine. laugh.gif
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toshiba nb hdd since last yr cant count on, better off go for hitachi only.
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post Feb 24 2006, 01:58 PM

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Anyway.. i donno is it posted already.. i lz to glance through 17 pages.. lolx
Maxtor is sold to Seagate already..
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QUOTE(audigydekwmak @ Feb 24 2006, 01:58 PM)
Anyway.. i donno is it posted already.. i lz to glance through 17 pages.. lolx
Maxtor is sold to Seagate already..
Old news already. In fact a thread on "Seagate To Buy Maxtor" was posted here back in December 26, 2005... on the same day the news was announced. doh.gif

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QUOTE(super macgyver @ Feb 23 2006, 02:05 PM)
mine also suffer 8kb, u better start low level format it asap.
toshiba nb hdd since last yr cant count on, better off go for hitachi only.
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Haih. The hdd just died without any notice. It was working in the afternoon and when I turned on my lappy in the evening, there's some weird noise coming out from the hdd (something like the hdd can't run and some mechanical sound like something getting stuck).

Replaced it with an overpriced Samsung (damn the brits). sigh sweat.gif
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Toshiba's nothebook HDD is not reliable.

I have serviced 4 laptops in my office, all CLEVO notebooks from Taiwan but all using Toshiba HDDs.
All of them are between 3 - 5 years old.

1 HDD totally cannot detect.
1 HDD have plenty of bad sectors.
1 HDD have no bad sectors, but HDD controller failure while read/write causing slow loading and response, almost like HDD frozen.

The worst thing is Toshiba do not have any diagnostic utillity for their HDDs!
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QUOTE(Hattori @ Feb 25 2006, 09:34 AM)
Toshiba's nothebook HDD is not reliable.

I have serviced 4 laptops in my office, all CLEVO notebooks from Taiwan but all using Toshiba HDDs.
All of them are between 3 - 5 years old.

1 HDD totally cannot detect.
1 HDD have plenty of bad sectors.
1 HDD have no bad sectors, but HDD controller failure while read/write causing slow loading and response, almost like HDD frozen.

The worst thing is Toshiba do not have any diagnostic utillity for their HDDs!
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After seeing 3 hdd (including mine) died in almost the same time frame, I couldn't agree more.

Hopefully this samsung will last longer smile.gif
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post Feb 25 2006, 12:13 PM

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QUOTE(Geminist @ Feb 25 2006, 09:36 AM)
After seeing 3 hdd (including mine) died in almost the same time frame, I couldn't agree more.

Hopefully this samsung will last longer smile.gif
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alamak..
you bought your Samsung hdd already....
why don't you give it a try for Seagate?!

but never mind, let see how good is the Samsung hdd can last....
later you can tell us how good it is....

for a hdd can last for 5 years, is it consider a good already?
or should be greater than that?

but mine 20G Quantum hdd, still dunning now without giving me any problem,
no bad sectors, no SMART error, none.. nothing...
it's already serving me well for about 6 years...
i predict, it's still can serve me another few more years, i think, let's see how...

i think, hdd can last for 5 years consider ok right? rather than a year problem occurs!! doh.gif
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QUOTE(victorboy @ Feb 25 2006, 12:13 PM)
alamak..
you bought your Samsung hdd already....
why don't you give it a try for Seagate?!

but never mind, let see how good is the Samsung hdd can last....
later you can tell us how good it is....

for a hdd can last for 5 years, is it consider a good already?
or should be greater than that?

but mine 20G Quantum hdd, still dunning now without giving me any problem,
no bad sectors, no SMART error, none.. nothing...
it's already serving me well for about 6 years...
i predict, it's still can serve me another few more years, i think, let's see how...

i think, hdd can last for 5 years consider ok right? rather than a year problem occurs!!  doh.gif
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ur one is put inside ur laptop or serve as inside external enclosure?
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QUOTE(super macgyver @ Feb 25 2006, 12:43 PM)
ur one is put inside ur laptop or serve as inside external enclosure?
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inside the desktop casing.....
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Actually I wanted to try out Seagate and such, it's just that, the PC World here is not selling any of those. All they are selling are Samsung sad.gif

However, I do find that the Samsung fluid bearing technology is rather interesting as my laptop is all quiet now.
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