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| Thread ID: 115055 | 2010-12-30 17:32:00 | HD failure | sarel (2490) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1165803 | 2011-01-12 04:08:00 | I don't have many WD drives, I prefer Seagate. They run good once you get the right firmware on them ;) | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1165804 | 2011-01-12 17:24:00 | I ordered a blue, 16 mb. Can't buy locally, about double the price so I have to depend on couriers. I'll see how it goes. Would the SATA cable be included? sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 1165805 | 2011-01-12 18:38:00 | No SATA cable. When you buy a Hard Drive thats all you get, it will (or should) come in an anti-static bag. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1165806 | 2011-01-12 20:27:00 | Unless the shop tells you they give you a cable, you can assume they won't | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1165807 | 2011-01-13 19:24:00 | Bl**dy hell, amazing. It was sent last night at 16:00 out of Akl, and at 08:15 this morning I had the drive in my hands. Just amazing. No SATA cable. I'm thinking of cloning the HD, and then do a complete reinstall of XP on the new one - I mean it's bare bones now as it is so I won't lose a lot of programs. That way we can start afresh, honky dory and all that cr*p. I could swear I had a spare SATA cable somewhere, but can't find it. Oh well, Dick Smith here I come. The search for the SATA cable also unearthed a lot of stuff I could not remember I had, like the driver CD for the onboard graphics card, etc. etc. All in all good. After the installation of this HD, I will be waiting patiently for a week and then do the updates to XP from SP2 to SP3 et al, bacause that was where the sh*te started previously. Watch this space sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 1165808 | 2011-01-13 20:54:00 | ... I have had three 1TB's fail now within 6 months :mad: Just out of curiosity, 3 out of how many? That sounds quite scary! I've got 1 TB Black installed just over a month and not too happy with it as I found that the noise level is rather high! Not a good sign? Checked with the WD diagnosting tool and passed all tests, though. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1165809 | 2011-01-13 21:22:00 | Just out of curiosity, 3 out of how many? That sounds quite scary! I've got 1 TB Black installed just over a month and not too happy with it as I found that the noise level is rather high! Not a good sign? Checked with the WD diagnosing tool and passed all tests, though . Three out of four -- three that were in the Various Customers PC's . :eek: They were all purchased at different times, from two different suppliers . Two were very noisy after about a week, and one simply failed while I was installing windows . They were all replaced with Blues of the same size (after requesting this from the supplier) . The remaining WD Black, I have as a backup drive if cloning customers HDD's . Sometimes its a bit noisy, other times its OK . |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1165810 | 2011-01-15 20:56:00 | OK. The first clone of my old HD did not go according to plan. I forgot that I tried to install Ubuntu about a million times and guess what appeared on bootup of the new one - a million Ubuntu choices, without XP. So I'm going to clean install XP on the old drive (if the thing will hold) and then clone. Question : shouldn't I format the new drive now to get rid of all the "wrong" programs? sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 1165811 | 2011-01-15 21:00:00 | Why clean install on the old drive and then clone? Why not just do a fresh install on the new drive? |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1165812 | 2011-01-15 21:02:00 | 2.5" are for laptops, and while you can get a mounting kit and adapter, the performance won't be as good...Unless you're talking about server drives, or high-end consumer ones (e.g. WD's VelociRaptor) - many of these are 2.5" to reduce seek times, and spin at speeds from 10-15k rpm. Having owned a VR for a while, I can attest that they're very quick indeed :D. | Erayd (23) | ||
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