Fanboyism spotted , pls back up ur statement with proper proof.

how to make claim over my WD Caviar SE 80gb, i checked through thier web site, the warranty stil valid till 2008

pls help!

Either u send back to the shop u purchased from or send to WD yourself, the informations are available at WD's site.

my maxtor's pcb died (smart error) just after few mth

I have about 4 maxtor HDs failed on me b4, swear never to buy maxtor again

I dont see anything wrong with both of my maxtor hdd. One been running fine for almost 5 years (entering 6th after 20/8) and another one been running great for almost 2 years for now.

By the way, here's a question, how often do you download? 24/7?

My pc is never off except for blackout, all of my friends never have luck with maxtor HD, the older models are quite ok but those newer 1 like Diamondmax+8-->9 are not really what u call reliable.

i've a seagate ~5yr++ pairing with the late maxtor, but never upset me until now. guess it is more to luck sometimes but the failure rate i see in this thread is suprising me

I am using WD HDDs : One WD2500KS & One WD3200KS

Both are SATA II, 16Mb. Cache.

Performance is great, they are fast and really very very quiet. It is also very low on heat.

Previously using Maxtor 160Gb SATA I and another Maxtor 80Gb. IDE. The 80Gb. died after about 1 year. Sold off my Maxtor 160Gb. and got both WD...been very happy with it. I highly recommend WD.

But then I got a problem which I think is not due to HDD fault. U see, I am connecting the 250Gb. and 320Gb. on SATA and I transfer large files and large amount of files from one HDD to another (most of the time from 250Gb. to 320Gb.). After a while of transferring, there will be an error message popup somewhere at taskbar (near the clock at lowerright of the screen). The error is " Delayed Write Failed". The error is referring to my 320Gb. (destination drive of my copy). The 320Gb. will not be accessible anymore and the HDD light (LED on casing) will be 'on' all the way.

What I do is, I have to shutdown the PC and start again and its back to normal until I do large file / large amount of file copy again. If i just normal use the PC without large copy, it will be OK.

I have checked the drive for errors or bad sectors and everything is fine. I also googled around for the error and found some known issues from microsoft WinXp but followed and solution and it still happens. There are also some forums that discussed this error but there's no one managed to solve it.

You can refer :

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=330174&sd=RMVP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870894/en-us

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;839490

Any ideas fellow members?? Pls. help, this is annoying me.

using maxtor 80GB for 4yrs lo...alread yhv bad sector n hv sound lik helicopter liao...gonna buy new HDD...

any recommendation?seagate or WD is better?both of this hdd is 3yrs warranty?TQ

Both are good/equal. But for me, il go for Seagate.

This post has been edited by lex: Jul 28 2006, 04:26 PM

Try check with ur ram first.

U can consider hitachi as i saw startec is selling it now.

This post has been edited by lex: Jul 28 2006, 04:25 PM

super macgyver, thanks for replying....no prob with my ram...i wonder whether it could be due to the mainboard..maybe the chipset is not so good....i m using a MSI nforce 6150/430 mobo for AMD S939...running 512Mb. DDR400 Kingston and AMD Athlon 64 3800+

u sure or not? else, u try change the ram to another slot & check first.

This post has been edited by lex: Jul 28 2006, 04:24 PM

super macgyver, there's no issue when I transfer files within the same physical HDD (2 partitions). Also no problem when I transfer from the WD2500KS to other IDE Hdd.

I am suspicious of the MOBO or the SATA Cable.......is there supposed to have SATA II cable when using SATA II HDD??

At first, there are ppl saying insufficient PSU supply may be the cause...so I changed to Acbel 500W PSU already and its still the same....


By the way, I have 2 partitions on my 250Gb. HDD (80Gb : C Drive, 170Gb. D Drive) and 1 partition on my 320Gb HDD (H Drive). I am also connecting 2 IDE CDROMS (Drives E & F)

dun talk so much lah, try check ur ram first, action talk lounder than words. :

yupio, please try other good RAM modules?

by the way i must say that copying a large file from one location to another location, that the size of file exceed the RAM capacity, is not practical.

eg: move a 1 GB of file instead the RAM is 512 MB can result in slowdown.

try to move smaller file or group of file, not exceeding the total RAM u got, at a time. Better move one after one than move a very large file at once.

in 2 GB machines, if u move a 1 GB file, it is more responsive than the 512 MB machines.

Please think this a good rule to be followed.

but if use ghosting usually over 30gb mar.

i had a seagate 4GB model hard disk. Medalist 4340 series 3.2GB hard disk has been servicing me for 5 years and then I had it service for other people until today. I bought it on year 1999.
So far that hard disk has no problem at all. Even once I had pull my cd-rom molex connection when operating and killed one hard disk but that seagate still remain save.
I have 3 hard disk which is Maxtor 80GB, Western Digital 80GB and Maxtor 200GB but they seem to have some unstable issues.

wat is the manufacturer date of ur wd80gb? 2mb or 8mb cache?
btw any1 try hitachi 80gb yet?