Good Day To All Fellow Forumers,

I've a few questions which has been bothering me for sometime and here it is :-

1. I've an INTEL865PERL Motherboard [PENTIUM 4 3.0] which supports SATA 1.5 And i've also bought a hard disk, WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR BLACK 1 TB.

2. Alright ,the problem lies here. Is WD CBlack famously known for having lots of bad sectors? I'm using HDD Regenerator and it's showing 100++ bad sectors [and this isn't the 1st time to have a 100 bad sectors, which means that i've also scanned it 3-4 times (formatted 3-4 times in case you're wondering what i meant) also showing 100 bad++ bad sectors, sometimes more and sometimes less]

3. Does SATA cable affects the speed of the Hard drives? for e.g. CBlack is at 6GB SATA, so does better quality SATA cable proves to have a beter speed? and is it compatible with the motherboard i'm using coz it's SATA 1.5 ?

4. the temperature for the hard drives always stayed at 39-42 degrees, is it kinda normal?

5. lastly, correct me if i'm mistaken for it, but i thought hard drives are just plug and play devices? the reason i asked is becoz i've seen from other forums saying that if we're using windows XP, we need to download some program to make it compatible with the hard drives, [something to do with RAID]

6. are there any other better brands which have low chances of getting bad sectors, quiet and smooth as well as affordable ?

Thanks and sorry for the long paragraphs

This post has been edited by St3ph: Apr 7 2012, 07:35 PM

Thanks for the reply.

In regards to the sentence quoted above, any recommendations? HITACHI?

Oh, okay. so my guess is that it's just the manufacturer problem , nothing to do with any setup ? does constant copy/cut of files to other drives affect the sectors of a hard drives? i know it's kind of dumb .. haha!

okay, thanks! at least i've got a confirmation that any hard drives will do.

Thank you for the help.