Owh snap. Typo... RM 355 very sory .


---> ANyway, juzz to confirm. Got rumors from some "expert" telling that WD green have this so called "chip" installed that will make the HDD shut down itselft when idle even if you've set the power management to always turn on your HDD from your window. This is to fulfill their "power saving attribute" . Is this true eh?

Hello Hardisk Gurus,
Two weeks ago, my friend updates his Vista. After one hour, suddenly the PC turn off itself. Once turn ON, CHKDSK runs and listing few segments. (don't know how to describe)
Well, me PC noob. But, I suspected that the hardisk is corrupted. (my 2cent)

As we try to run the hardisk on other PC, same thing happen. Even put the hardisk to slave.

I have no idea on how to retrieve the data back. Can anyone of u guys here can help him to retrieve back all his data?

The hardisk spec as below:

ST3500320AS
Firmware: SD15
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA


Thanks in advance. Looking forward for solutions.

It could be the firmware problem of the 7200.11 HDD. Have you made sure that you have updated the firmware? Checkout seagate official website.

Yea... and dun forget to read this forum too.

This post has been edited by steventsc: Jul 1 2009, 08:05 AM

Is this type of faulty covered by RMA?

guys, want to ask how to recover my lost space (or drive) which i previously had....it is a 60gb hdd (F:) in my 2nd hard disk (total 160gb)...but when i format it...i cant c8 a new partition o format the F drive...

now..it remain lost in my hdd and i only have 100gb left in my 2nd hdd which is consist of 2 drive G n H......

may i know how to solve this???

Hei, I'm quite outdated in external HDD.

As you can see from my siggy, I've bought 2.5" HDD all these years due to portability issue.
Now as I've less travel, I need a large externall HDD to use along with my lappie.

Can Anyone tell me:
i) Is Seagate famous firmwire problem causing HDD failure exist in External 3.5" HDD? Should I get WD instead?
ii) I'm considering 1.5 TB 3.5" Seagate External HDD since it is quite cheap (saw RM 485). Is Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme and Home got any difference? If you suggesting WD, I cant see any WD 1.5" External HDD by the moment.

Thanks.

Now it's RM350 at czone (2 July pricelist)

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Added on July 6, 2009, 12:48 amWD's 808GB HDD is now available at lyp. RM249 at viewnet.

This post has been edited by cannavaro: Jul 6 2009, 12:48 AM

Any difference between western digital 500GB green 32mb vs 16mb ?

Mine still ok, but scared if store data nanti all lost to neverland how???

Should I RMA it or should I just wait for the drive to fail then only RMA it??? But if wait to fail, might as well I use it just for OS and what not

hi guys,
i need to ask u guys if my hdd cannot boot due to power problem can repair ar?
this is the symptom, i try to plug into external hdd casing, it wont on.
by the way , its a 160gb seagate for IDE.

wow its cheap!!!luckily i didnt bought 1td drive almost cost 320 for now
the performance shld be higher than 640gb aaks due to higher density

This post has been edited by Irishcoffee: Jul 11 2009, 07:49 AM

i've never encounter such HDD capacity..anyway, it's cheap...

Sometimes WD comes out with odd capacities for hard disks but production is quite limited. I remember ALL IT was selling an odd-capacity WD hard disk early this year with good RM:Gigabyte ratio.

Im currently waiting for the seagate 1tb 7200.12... too bad most local retailers wont take the risk to bring them in since the 7200.11 edition is very problematic.

but some ppl said 808gb is 1tb with bad sector disable , similar to phenom x3

hmmm.. is it true aaa? how come i don't know this

wah got hard disk thread..would like to ask which hard disk is the best and how much does it cost? wanted to buy notebook hard disk and make it external =) but confuse about 3.5 and 2.5..hope u guy can help =)

Notebook hard disc is 2.5"

orh ic then how about 3.5 one is desktop ? if i use 3.5 as external i need to plug power to it? i was finding 500GB 2.5 wad brand do you recommend? all HDD speed is same? sorry i kinda no knowledge about HDD