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i fear it died again, after just a few months, that's the second one in 9 months what a piece of shit stuff, What's the best, affordable harddisk? maybe it's from all the warez, maybe it's because of my motherboard which didnt give any trouble except to the previous owner eat shit and die, big |
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I use Western Digital drives and never have problems. |
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ok ill look into that first windows quite a few times, then the startup said something about a bad driver, then restarting and failing and turning the compu off made the hd make a terrible sound, just the toink sound it usually makes but more loud and hollow |
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i've only ever had trouble with a western digital, all my maxtors are fine, after 6 years of savage mp3age. WD one died after less than a year. guess it's all a gamble. set up a raid array :) |
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western digital is a name that sounds like shit actually ill be buying a second hd for sure (now only have a small one extra, that doesnt startup aswell!!) and more regiously backup forfeeling shit i backup my last flp file on a ftp tonight, when drunk i might add, i hope itll work though cause flp might have had a big influence on the hd going down (yes i deserve this shit) |
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vicourlessly that should be or something |
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Seagate Fujitsu |
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poor boy. western digitals are aight, and I've had no troubles with the seagate that's currently in my computer. don't like maxtor, cause I think it's a silly name. |
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hehe, when i have an ace hd ill stop backing up and then itll crash in 3 years or so, this has to be taken into consideration i never didnt loose a hd: imac: failed to start up from the disk shit pc: hd literaly went up in smoke, which was kinda cool to see actually two maxtors, this means i still have one hd from which i now cant start up :( |
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My brother bought a new Maxtor HD and after a month it died too, I'm starting to see a patern, I have a Seagate Barracuda and it works great for over a year now. Western Digital are known to be crap. |
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Ya know what, I'm starting to think it depends where you live or something - if you buy Western Digital in Montreal, it came from Wun Hung Lo province, and if you buy it in Ireland it came from a different factory in Wun Sung Hi province. Wherever it's cheaper to ship from. Or something. |
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Anyone that goes upon brand name "sounds" is a fucking little bitch that jacks off to the status quo and shops at places like Hot Topic The WD Raptor is the best HDD around Do some fucking research "Could it be the warez" uhhhh gee I don't know "The motherboard gave the last owner problems" well there you go I've got 2 WD's and a Quantum.... which is now owned by Maxtor. No problems |
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I have a western digital as my backup, and I don't have a problem with it. |
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worst sound a HD can make is a rrrrrrrr-sound. or a regular tack-tack-tack sound. any regular sound isn't good. |
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you could've just tried to help him instead of formulating your answers as if you are the kind of asshole that says things like "pwned!!" and "rofl!! u r my b1tch n0w!!" |
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Lots of actual data on reliability. Seagate is good. |
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dang, youn's got me woried about my hd now. cool link mappy. thx |
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an absolute fuckload of PC problems come from people using shitty power supplies. the majority of the cases out there, especially wanky ones, have awful power supplies. it can cause things such as equipment, particulary hard drives dying, random reboots, the system never coming up properly every time, etc (not nessecarily all of these) sure this isn't the issue? yes, getting a different hard drive may solve the problem, but this likely may be because it draws less power or something. |
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That;s interesting, do you have anything I can look at to study up on this? |
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personal experience. i come across it _all_ the time, it's a hell of a lot more common than most people think. |
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Why does that happen? I don't understand unless your power supply is surging or cutting in and out or something? |
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the same happened to a friend of mine. glad i chose western |
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Hm, how often would random reboots happen if I had a bad power supply? I get that once ever couple of months or so... maybe that's just Windows being crappy though. I had another unrelated weird problem in Windows 2000 where closing Mozilla with a Java applet in the browser would reboot the system occasionally. |
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I had a western digital and a toshiba crash in the past 6 months maxtor's are the only drive's i've not had problems with |
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Uh yeah I could've When did I type "pwned" or any of that shit Don't tell me what to do I based it upon the comment of "buying products because of how their name(s) sound" Now if that's not the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard I don't know what is If you applied that formula.... probably 3/4+ of all tech companies would go under and people would end up with actual shit Just a guess ... As far as PSU's go, I wouldn't buy anything else but Antec / Antec TruePower The PSU and system RAM are two of the most overlooked components to go quality for Thank you drive through |
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maxtor = shit. Never buy a maxtor. I'm a WD man myself. |
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oh, it's working again o_O good tips though *backs up |
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hah, my harddrive died for 3 days once but came back to life. |
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it might just have been bios settings, but i did get strange messages and reactions |
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Your best bet is nabbing a Western Digital or a Seagate HD from one of your local electronic store chains, since after their rebates it'll be cheaper than ordering one online, from say . |
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the hard drive I am currently using was out of service for a year then I put it in and turned my laptop on it's side, plugged in an external monitor/keyboard/mouse and it works! curse you gravity, sucking the head into the platter |
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