haha!!!!
really??!!
how was the performance and reliability??!! used for how long already?!!
i seldom see peopel hitachi hdd these day!!!

28k of bad sector. but the RMA took only about 1 week time. relief. and the good thing is that they RMAed a SATA 300mb/s replacing the SATA 150mb/s (transfer rate).

hrmm... the reason i opt for WD is because of its speed, according to some sellers in LYP. and comparing to seagate with NCQ, i still feel that WD is faster.

i know i should't totally believe in sellers intro, but i did, and i didn't regret.

the WD 120g and WD 200g is still running well. never experience any data loss before.

This post has been edited by Sanko: Oct 11 2005, 10:29 PM

hrmm... if i'm not mistaken, WD offers 3 years of warranty while seagate offers 5 years. that's the draw back. samsung i'm not quite sure.

This post has been edited by Sanko: Oct 11 2005, 10:23 PM

hey oh my goodness!!! haha!!!
alamak!!
what??! WD offered 3 years only??!!
i thought they offered 5 years as well??!!

below were WD official website, it said 5 years warrenty for the SATA, but not sure included other drives or not...

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=158

those who use WD hdd...
do you guy use this tool --> Data Lifeguard Tools(tm) for your WD hdd??
hmm i think i need to use this to diagnose my hdd

i bought WD sata2 hdd,hope it is 5 years warranty....

i want to buy seagate hdd at first but it is a bit expensive & my budget is limited,so go for WD,dosn't dare to use Maxtor because many people say it is a lousy hdd......

using samsung and WD both oso nice but...for samsung only use it for 3 months.....then WD oledi 2 yrs la...so far...no problem and quiet~

always trust seagate

pls specified ur size, how long u had bought them?

hitachi if u want, i can order for u but 40gb cost u around RM4xx.

victorboy
samsung hdd is 3yr warranty.

seemlike WD is also almost like maxtor got high failure rate too.
dun trust seagate coz my frens all had spoilt 4 pcs seagate 80gb liao.
i kena *** kao kao coz i recomend them seagate.

so far I recommend Seagate to my frens and clients. no problem/complain at all

the seagate usually occured after 1 yr or 11 months.

wow!!!...
thanks for your info...
I don't why nowaday hdd so easy to get errors. why can't they improve it...hmmm..
should i try Seagate and Samsung?!.....
i hope the hdd should last for 3 years and above running in 24/7
it is possible the product made in china? therefore the quality and reliability are just so so only.

first i'd like to say that i have bad bad bad experiences with ALL the three big names of harddisks.... MAXTOR, WD AND SEAGATE. im starting to think that im the HD killer

let me elaborate....

1. MAXTOR 200GB PATA
- bought it for my ext casing. formatted it, put my music (10GB) in it....after 5secs.. *poof* harddisk unrecognized. first time lucky...i copied my data.
- 2nd time reformat...CUT and PASTE all my music and data... about 60GB worth...after 2minutes... *poof* again! sob sob sob...
- tried all possible methods but my data was gone...FOREVER and EVER.
- hit LYP next week to change for a WD 200GB. that was the last of my Maxtor 200GB.

2. WD 200GB PATA (replacement for MAXTOR 200GB)
- unlucky me....harddisk casing failure...causing my WD to have a power failure and had them go through warranty.
- 150GB data kaboom in the destruction... SOB SOB SOB SOB...
- (though not a hd failure, still was a BAD experience)

3. Seagate 120GB SATA (internal)
- using for 2yrs++. still working
- no problems whatsoever until lately... HD spun 4times slower with occasional clicking sounds.
- thought was bad sectors... used Seagate Seatools to diagnose...no bad sectors.
- problem detected by Seatools --> FILE SYSTEM ERROR... WTF?? NTFS index system (or some sort) has some error...
- backed up all my data...albeit a 4x longer transfer time...(3hours for 40GB imagine that!)
- reformatted
- working fine now...

So you see...im kinda paranoid now.... esp about harddisks...

And fyi...my hd are kept far away from my sub or speakers so they're not in any sort of magnetic field or such. As for now... my WD 200GB and Seagate 120GB are holding up...

As for GOOD harddisks, i think the better ones of the 3 is Seagate and also Western Digital. i dont believe in THE BEST harddisk...cos to me...there isnt any

This post has been edited by jinXxxx: Oct 13 2005, 08:26 PM

You use the world's toughest SCSI drives also no point if using "icute PSU".

I use Maxtor with ENlight 250W for 2 yrs plus (only complain slow lah, dunno why a DMP9 80gb slower than a Quantum AS Plus 30GB that is way older).
Then sold to a friend.. kena *** kau kau just like supermac cos the thing kong in 2 months. She was using a caplang PSU.

ceo684...were you refering to me?

does the PSU have an effect on the HD?

i am also of the opinion that chapalang PSU would definitely shorten the life of any HDD's. power fluctuation/ inconsistent current..... is probably the culprit.

hmmm.... but i wuz wondering. my psu is a 370W enermax. izzit ok to connect 2 hdds to a single power connector?? i getting worried now......

erm... i'm noob.
i heard that eventhough seagate have 5 years warranty.. maxtor's performance is better than seagate wo...
correct me if i'm wrong.. (again, i'm noob >.<)

jones007
the maxtor is an untrustly HDD brand lah. i & my customer kena too many since yr2000.

jinXxxx
wat brand is tat casing? we will coount on tat casing model then.

wow!!!
Maxtor hdd always not reliable...how come....haha!!
i think the new version of Seagate hdd has improved, shouldn't be any problem like past time...maybe the new hdd i will go for Seagate and try it out...
data lost is a major problems, man, i lost tons of data due to my previous WD hdd failure.

chapalang hdd will cause hdd failure and shorten the life of th hdd??!!
how? is it because insufficient of power? or what....i wonder...

the most affraid part is data lost, no matter how good performance is your hdd is.