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

they will still maintain the brand maxtor

haih..poor maxtor...but their hdd is good wut..
mine 20gb still holding more than 5 years...
but seagate ade more than 10 years 10gb

how to do disc scan?

sorry noob here, I'm using winxp. care to tell?

paise, paise..i am not pro in hardware..hehe..

btw, is there anyway to prevent the bad sector problem??..

Quantum is really so good. my two Quantum Fireball Plus 20 GB still running without any bad sector. THey have operated for six years 

another Quantum 2 GB (old harddisk nowadays) also still okay, but it has too small cache, less than 1 MB cache.

I really missed the Quantum which had drew away from consumer harddisk. They now only focused on the enterprise solution such as SCSI harddisk.

anyone can tell me which harddisk can stand longer than 5 years? I hope that all my harddisk including new 80 GB WD PATA will not give any problem within several years

just want to share this link with u all ---> http://hddguru.com/

can formating the hard disk often do damage on it?

wat do u mean by low level format?
does frequent defrag helps pro long hdd life?
hw do i scan bad sectors? 

my gf's maxtor hdd sata wanna die oledi..recent got cracking sound...n whn loading data or doin data transfer the sounds got louder n poof....whole pc freeze n hang thr.....
jz used 1 yr++ 

Quantum is not bought by Maxtor corp meh?

Just to let everyone know (in case they didn't read today's Intech):

Those with WD drives bought from March 2001 - 15 Feb 2006 can claim for free backup software from WD. Might be useful to some. 
I just applied for mine. They'll send a link via e-mail.

http://www.wdc.com/settlement.

Valid WD HDD serial number required.

Hey guys, just thought I'd share this with all of you.

Bought a new Seagate 250GB hard drive from Low Yat last week. Installed it the next day and it just wouldn't work. I think it was just my luck that I got the 1 faulty drive in the whole shipment. Anyway, went to their website, put in an RMA and sent my hard drive to the centre in Menara Summit. Received a receipt confirmation email 2 days later (sent it on a Friday) and still didn't get a replacement after another 2 days. I sent in a complaint to Seagate Malaysia and they forwarded it to the regional manager. That was yesterday. Today, the regional manager emailed me to say that the drive I bought was currently out of stock and it would take another 2 weeks to get new stock. So, he offered me a 400GB hard drive in exchange!! Now happily waiting for new 400 GB hard drive to arrive.    Not bad... pay for 250GB get 400Gb and their customer service is excellent, normally only takes 4-5 days and if longer or no stock, they give you a better one. I'm now a strong supporter of Seagate. Seagate for life!!

Yes, The new contenders after Hitachi slowed down all their HD business:(

The new contender is from Seagate 7200.10 and they are FAST!!!!
with 16MB cache they are making Raptors run as well.

On the other hand Seagate's reliability on IDE drives have always not been very encouraging. So that is the place for a * pause* here.

An how did WD react? they push out WD5000YS, their RE2 series. LABELLED as ENTERPRISE drives these drives boost a MTBF of 1.2 million hours (in theory) and boost the same 5 years warranty like Seagate.

Price and Peformance Seagate have it covered for now.

Reliability.. the WD RE2 is still on top.

Yes, The new contenders after Hitachi slowed down all their HD business:(

The new contender is from Seagate 7200.10 and they are FAST!!!!
with 16MB cache they are making Raptors run as well.

On the other hand Seagate's reliability on IDE drives have always not been very encouraging. So that is the place for a * pause* here.

An how did WD react? they push out WD5000YS, their RE2 series. LABELLED as ENTERPRISE drives these drives boost a MTBF of 1.2 million hours (in theory) and boost the same 5 years warranty like Seagate.

Price and Peformance Seagate have it covered for now.

Reliability.. the WD RE2 is still on top.

Hey just want to ask. i have a 250G HDD with me now and i am using the external casing for it. problem is, sometimes it detects sometimes it doesnt.

any idea? or is the any way program i can run to check its  reliability?
thanks

btw. the casing should be in good condition

Hurhur, I am in the verge of getting either a 160 gig IDE HD or a 200GB.
If its you guys, which do you prefer?

I know its extra 10-20 bucks but I'm just afraid that well you know the bigger the space capacity the more its prone to BAD SECTOR.

Right now I'm thinking of WD or Seagate..

i tried
the condition is even worse now, the system will lag after a while quite frequently.
lotsa damaged sectors found with HDtune.

i got this hard disk from dell..got it from one of my uncle..after installed it..it is dam noisy, especially when a loading aplication, game or program, can hear the hdd spinning sound..it is a 160gb seagate hdd..

iz it normal for hdd to have this sound?? because my other hdd (maxtor, western digital) never have this type of problem, no sound at all, very silence...

ps: sukhoi37 remember me in bs? 

so i need to how much the case support is it?care to elaborate? coz i have 400g hdd that i have not try yet..thanks

so now i get it, companies like dell, hp use OEM products...and usually its quite noisy, but so far no problem, working fine only the noise can be irritatating sometimes..but it cant be called as rejected hardware right?? haha 

anyway, dell uses philips dvd-rw, another oem product which cant be bought in the market... 

hey guys... I wanna ask about samsung's 400GB hdd sold at pczone. from the pricelist, its RM410 for the SATA. Compared to other 400GB hdd, Seagate for example, its selling for RM800 I think. The price difference is quite huge so I was wondering about the quality of the samsung's 400GB hdd.

samsung also got warranty at psj.but very far lar. i been using maxtor hdd for 2 years n think this brand is ok.
better buy wd.nicer n more stable

wat do u mean by tat..dun get it 

mm..so seagate or western digital? which one better?