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Quick question. Getting a new hard drive. Which of the above mentioned companies do the better drives? It's a metter of pennies in price difference. £25.89 vs £26.19 They're both 80gb drives. I'm cleaning up my computer ladies and gentlemen. Sorting shit out and I'll hopefully be removing some partitions. |
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WD internals are grrreat. WD externals are SHIT because of their horrible shells. Maxtors are good, though. |
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It's internal. This is to be my new boot disk. However, just noticed that the Maxtor is SATA-300. Is this SATA II? If so, I doubt it'll work with my SATA motherboard and this thread was a waste of everyones time. |
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most SATA2(300) drives have a switch(jumper) so they also work on SATA1(150) |
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Now there's info that should be on the SATA page and on the Wikipedia article. |
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my experience with ANY WD hard drive has been disastrous |
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waftxtor |
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Cheers people. |
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my lacie (maxtor parts) external HD broke and I replaced it with a WD one which has been more agreeable |
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go for the WD! |
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Maxtor all the way! |
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More than 50% of my >=40GB WD drives are already dead. The rest has issues once in a while. |
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both are shit but maxtor is more shit |
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Neither. Get a seagate. The new Hitachi drives are decent too (long gone are the deathstar days with the click of death). |
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wd |
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apparantly those pennies matter |
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WD I've had mine for almost a year and it's been fine. It's 120GB and I only use it for storing my music and backing up movies from; I don't run any applications on it, though. |
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Well...the only problem that I've had is that I actually didn't get a whole 120GB on my hard drive, same with my iPod. I was shorted 9GB and 2GB respectively. I hear this common. Anyone know why? |
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it's all to do with the interpretation of the unit of measurement for hard drive capacities - remember that a kilobyte (kilo = 1000) is actually 1024 bytes. pretty much explains it. |
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fuck sake i wanted to explain it |
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there's no one stopping you :) |
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you burst the bubble X-( |
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