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| 775398 | 2009-05-20 05:45:00 | Are the 1TB hard drives more reliable now? I heard a while ago that they had trouble with frequent failing, is this true? If so have they fixed it? Was it just seagate or western digital or both? | Nictech (14748) | ||
| 775399 | 2009-05-20 05:57:00 | It was a Seagate issue, not just TB drives. Fixed now, and in any case WD now have 2TB drives available if you have some need of gigantic storage. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 775400 | 2009-05-20 06:02:00 | Sweet. Thanks pctek. WOOOOOOOOWWWWWW! 2TB it's so godlike! :D |
Nictech (14748) | ||
| 775401 | 2009-05-20 06:07:00 | It was the Seagate SD15 firmware which was dodgy. As long as your drive doens't have that firmware, you're fine. Seagate has simple instructions for updating the dodgy firmware. I would still recommend Seagate over any other hard drive brand. Most of the new WD drives have an annoying power save feature, which can slow things down a little when resuming from periods of inactivity. I don't know if the new 2TB drives have this or not. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 775402 | 2009-05-20 06:10:00 | Most of the new WD drives have an annoying power save feature, which can slow things down a little when resuming from periods of inactivity. Is this those "green" hard drives? BTW, thanks for the other info :thumbs: |
Nictech (14748) | ||
| 775403 | 2009-05-20 06:36:00 | Yeah, think it was those ones. NP. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 775404 | 2009-05-20 06:41:00 | I wouldnt think the delay after not using for a while matters, if you had a 2tb drive its hardly like youl be running windows on it | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
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