i hear some forumer say the WD is the good brand for HD, but i have many frenz was having touble when using the WD IDE HDD.....some is only using for few weeks, then need to send back for RMA.....

QuickView drives have a few key differences from normal desktop drives that make them far superior to desktop drives for PVR usage:

    * Thermal Control: On board sensors monitor temperature and adjust characteristics as necessary to keep the temperature optimal.
    * Durability: These drives run at 7200 RPM - more than fast enough for every PVR (providing about three times the necessary peak throughput) but not fast enough to wear out sooner.
    * Acoustic Management: Maxtor QuickView drives are specially tuned to run as quietly as possible.
    * A/V Streaming: QuickView drives have been optimized and tuned to provide consistent data to the PVR processor. Standard desktop drives can hang while retrying drive reads - QuickView drives know to move ahead and provide more data to keep video smooth.
    * Error Recovery: Desktop drives retry on errors to make sure that your Excel spreadsheet is exactly right - it's imperative. But when watching video, if one block of data is bad, you may not even notice a dark spot on one frame for 1/30th of a second. So these drives are tuned to move past errors faster, putting the stream of data as top priority. Where desktop drives often cause stutters, these drives run smooth.

NOTICE

I have noticed quite a number of people bought "Maxtor QuickView" drives for use with their desktop PCs (and/or for external data storage). Please beware that these drives are NOT meant for proper data storage purposes! Please check the following statement in BOLD RED (source: Maxtor QuickView Hard Drives - Built for your DVR, PVR and Consumer Electronics Devices): FYI: These "QuickView" drives are based on DiamonadMax 10 desktop drives. Regards.

can make the explaination more simple, as really dun understand actually. thx

Hmm... anyone know the price for a 250GB Caviar16SE?
I can't find it anywhere in Malaysia...

Means that Maxtor QuickView drive will "skip" or drop data from slow sectors or from sectors that contains errors (will NOT retry re-reading the sector). Thus, there may be "gaps" in the data read back.. 

FYI: Normal desktop HDDs wil retry reading slow sectors and/or sectors with errors to ensure the data is available. If the sector could not be read (or found), then it will report an error (such as "cyclic redundancy error" or "bad block") instead of skipping it.. 

but after seagate merge it, maxtor still continue tis useless technology or not, hope no loh. 

Eventhough Seagate meage with Maxtor but somehow the HDD from Maxtor still the same.I think in short period Maxtor will continue with thier old technology.

my mobo (D865PERL)  only supports SATA1... would it be beneficial to get a 16MB cache SATA2?

wah....don kong me....i jsut want to buy wd 80gb ><"
but my 20gb maxtor using for 5 years > still in good condition

ZzZzZZZZ....we know lar...u got 2 hdd but how is the condition ?