Storage Solutions Which 500GB HDD to get?

[janitha]

My experiences, here we go---

Till now used 6 Seagates Temps of 250gb r too hot.
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Hope the new 7200.10 series single platter ones are not hot. Somebody with experience may pl clarify.

 

[Lord Nemesis]

Got the 500GB WD5000AAKS today. Its not getting detected in the BIOS at all. Think its DOA.

 

[6pack]

check sata settings in bios as well as use diff sata cable if possible!

 

[nRiTeCh]

6 HDD SATA from 500 to 750 GB - BeHardware

Seagate's temps still very hot as comp. to others.

 

[Lord Nemesis]

check sata settings in bios as well as use diff sata cable if possible!

Already tried everything. 4 Different SATA Ports, 4 different cables setting it to SATA1 with a jumper etc. Anyways getting a replacement drive by evening.

 

[Udit]

6 HDD SATA from 500 to 750 GB - BeHardware

Seagate's temps still very hot as comp. to others.

it is a 1.5yrs old review duh :|

now 7200.11 500GB, T7K500 500GB & WD5000AAKS 500GB sell

 

[Systemic Anamoly]

Already tried everything. 4 Different SATA Ports, 4 different cables setting it to SATA1 with a jumper etc. Anyways getting a replacement drive by evening.

i had faced the same thing with maxtor 300GB got it exchanged for 250GB hitachi

right now pretty much happy with my 500+250GB hitachi drives, no issues till now

 

[Lord Nemesis]

i had faced the same thing with maxtor 300GB got it exchanged for 250GB hitachi

right now pretty much happy with my 500+250GB hitachi drives, no issues till now

Got a replacement HDD this evening and its working flawlessly. As I mentioned earlier, the first one must be a DOA case.

 

[amdlover]

SUre, go for WD man. Seagate is too low in case of performance as compare to WD.

 

[kingkong]

I wouldn't be able to decide really as out of the 20 odd HDD's I have bought since 1994 (starting with 1.1GB Seagate), only that first 1.1GB crashed for good, and Seagate had no such warranty those days over 1 yr. limited. Haven't had any such problems with either Seagate or WD in the last 5 years, but my gut feeling tells me that Seagate is better - they somehow seem to connect better (instantaneously) whenever I swap disks on my system, wether PATA or SATA! Currently, the tables have been reversed regards pricing. Seagate is more expensive now compared to equivalent WD.

 

[SunnyBoi]

Are 7200.11 500GBs available anywhere in India?

 

[kingkong]

naah...nothing special...actually am bidding farewell to my dvds, hav abt 700 of them...so transferring them to hdds...and if "access" to disk space is wht u r counting then thrs internet for u

Yo JeDiKnight Yoda! How about swapping a few of those DVD's? Got a list somewhere??

 

[JeDiKnight]

Yo JeDiKnight Yoda! How about swapping a few of those DVD's? Got a list somewhere??

hehe many of my dvds r going kaput ...so i dont have much faith in them...i also used to have an excel...but then havent updated that for last 8-10 months...let me know wht kind of stuff u want and will try to make up the list...movies/tvshows/anime...