What's the meaning of critical data?
I don't want separate drives it look "messy" where you have D E F and you don't know where to put what.

Did you try informing your bank of this fraudulent CC charge and have them revoke it? If successful, the banks would punish the offending company.

If you don't know what's critical data means you don't have any important files that you cannot afford to loose lah...

RAID 5 can be designated as one single drive letter. Why does it need to be D E F?

That was his reason for using RAID-5, to get only one partition out of three HDDs.

Anybody here know the hitachi cinemaster hard disk?

perhaps its better if we hope External Harddisk prices drop first
because that would create alot of purchase of External Harddisk rather then Internal,
unless aiming for new rig or NAS system,
a lack of profits in internal will lead em to act faster

I think this is going round and round in circles... I thought Shufflerz's problem was because he's using SSD, he wants to set all SATA ports to AHCI and therefore cannot do "hardware" RAID for his other 3 normal hardisk.

My suggestion to him was to take out the 3 hardisk, find a 3 or 4 bay enclosure and connect the PC with eSATA (cheap ones) or the connect via Gigabit switch (more expensive type). The eSATA NAS enclosures can run RAID 5 via a separate SATA RAID controller card installed in the PC or a real standlalone NAS enclosure having it's own RAID 5 controller and connects via Gigabit network. In either case, the RAID 5 volume can be set as a single drive.

After that he says he does not want to take out the hardisk because it will become D E F drives?

Sorry, my bad.

yup, and i was told that this is not a fraud case because it's an authorized transaction which i approved. so nothing the bank can do cause now the issue is between me and the merchant.

so yeah, i'm screwed.

does WD black scorpio worth 2 get it now?? the price r 100% higher b4 thai flooded.

Spoken like a person who has never had to reformat and reinstall his OS every 3 months or so because of virus, worms, etc.

Hey guys take a look at this article. It clearly shows that anybody who buy HDD now are pretty much getting rip off by HDD maker.

They dont suffer any "serious" shortage anymore, just that they want to make everyone believe it so they can sell at double the price.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/displ..._Shipments.html

So if u dont really need a HDD now dont buy, try to find things to delete, do a clean up on ur HDD is far better than getting rip off by HDD maker.

The situation is actually more dire than that. Particularly with statements like


By the end of March 2012, Seagate (wiki) and WD (wiki) will assume control of 90% of the HDD market (wiki), leaving only Toshiba (wiki) as the wild card. Seagate and WD's key products is the HDD, so it will be in their best interests to keep the prices high. Maybe Toshiba could try to spoil this, but it would have a small effect since it has only 10% of the market.

Hi there,

I have a 2 year old Scorpio Blue 320GB 5400 which I use for keep my personal data, photos n etc.

recently, the harddisk giving me trouble and can't detect anymore, have "tek tek tek" sound once plugged.

Called up WD, they as me to send to factory to claim warranty since it still under warranty.

But how to retrieve the datas from the HDD ya?

i really need hdd badly.. so WD My Passport Essential is come with 5.4 or 7.2 krpm? i need external hdd can any1 recommend me? thanks~

they (seagate & western digital) need extra money so that they can build factory on the tibet range
thats why they still not dropping the price.
welcome to the world of capitalism. makes more money and lets the idiots (who buys) suffers!

i got one external WD HDD..passport...
yday i copy some files from my office pc...when i reach home and plug in my laptop the hdd cannot be read...after a while it shows "drive not formatted"
if i format sure all things gone! what can i do?
today i reach office plug in my office pc still the same. try colleague pc still the same..
i dunno if this can be discuss here. anyone can help>?

ive a RAID10 for my pc. but today i found tat 1 of my mirror harddisk has failure. currently im using 640gb x4. but very hard to find 640gb 3.5" HDD.

so i wanna ask that can i use 2.5" HDD 640gb 5400rpm for replacement?

I'm now using a WD 160GB hdd and its temperature can reach up to 70°C. Is it normal or too hot? What is the maximum safe temperature for hdd?

WAAAAAAY too hot.
That's critical levels of a temperature that can be sustained by a HDD.

No HDD should ever go above 50c at load.
Give or take, even in a notebook... a HDD shouldn't be hotter than 55c (even at 50c, that's way too hot).
Your HDD could be toasted anytime at 70c.