Today, I bought Seagate Baracuda 7200.12 500 GB hard disk. I fully aware that Seagate 7200.11 plague issue...thanks to this thread and www. However, a quick visit to digital mall, I can't find any other hard disk except 7200.11, 7200.12, Western D Green and WD Blue (up to 160GB only...sigh).

500 GB 7200.12 cost me RM190 at All IT. Instead of the salesman claim that this hard disk got 3 years manufacturer warranty..I still insist to check it online at seagate warranty validator.

Thanks God, this hdd still got 5 years warranty to back it up. Hopefully, Seagate already found a solid solution to fix it 7200.11 probs.... well...hopefully.

Will post a benchmark result later.

Lol.... waiting 7200.12 owner to has brick hdd.... so meany lol.

anyway..my 3 days old seagate 7200.12 hard disk already has 1 bad sector...hmm....

Your mobo should has 1 eide (for your PATA hdd) port which support 2 pata drive. Usually people use for not so new optical disk drive.

as mitodna said, pata you can see visible pin (on the hdd) and almost 2 inch wide while sata is horizontal L (less than 1 inch wide).