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| Thread ID: 79514 | 2007-05-22 11:03:00 | Buying a harddrive.Some advices | Ninjabear (2948) | Press F1 |
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| 552087 | 2007-05-22 11:03:00 | Hi So my HDD has died.Going to buy a new one.I already have a usb enclosure and want to use this HDD as an external harddrive I'm thinking of this one pconlineshop.co.nz I was wondering if Western Digital is a good brand? I see there's EIDE,IDE and SATA.Normally I hear people using IDE alot but are there any difference between the 3? |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 552088 | 2007-05-22 11:14:00 | Hi So my HDD has died.Going to buy a new one.I already have a usb enclosure and want to use this HDD as an external harddrive I'm thinking of this one pconlineshop.co.nz I was wondering if Western Digital is a good brand? I see there's EIDE,IDE and SATA.Normally I hear people using IDE alot but are there any difference between the 3? How about going back to your other thread? The drive that died was in an enclosure I think. You have ascertained the Hitachi died I am told. Have you checked the enclosure? Will a SATA drive fit in the enclosure and connect?. I would very much doubt this. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 552089 | 2007-05-22 11:15:00 | There is such thing as Google ;) Personally I would get a Seagate, though I have not had 1st hand experience with W/D Read this (http://www.ata-atapi.com/) IDE and EIDE are effectively the same (just different transfer modes), SATA is completely different to IDE and EIDE |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 552090 | 2007-05-22 11:23:00 | Order of preference for HDD brand would be: 1) Seagate 2) Western Digital Never had a bad experience with either brand. Only reason I would take Seagate over the WD is that they have a 5 year warranty. There are other brands like Hitachi, Samsung etc but don't go there. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 552091 | 2007-05-22 11:39:00 | I think I killed my harddrive by unplugging it without first stopping from the taskbar Hmm never knew it could murder the harddrive that way. Ever had such a problem? Wish someone could let me know why the harddrive stopped working...I like answers! |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 552092 | 2007-05-22 11:41:00 | There are other brands like Hitachi, Samsung etc but don't go there. Why? Is this a personal view or do you have any reasons? |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 552093 | 2007-05-22 12:02:00 | Why? Is this a personal view or do you have any reasons? Had too many of both Hitachi and Samsung drives fail and would prefer not to use them again. I've also had Seagate and WD drives fail of cause but the failure rate of them is much lower. In fact I can't remember the last time I had a Seagate drive fail. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 552094 | 2007-05-22 13:46:00 | basically, ide is obsolete. SATA2 is the new standard, backward compatible with SATA. if you want an external drive, using a usb enclosure, the type of hdd interface to use would be the one used in the enclosure would it not? i have had no problems with both seagate and WD, but prefer seagate. keep hearing bad things about hitachi and WD |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 552095 | 2007-05-22 14:24:00 | I think I killed my harddrive by unplugging it without first stopping from the taskbar Hmm never knew it could murder the harddrive that way. Ever had such a problem? Wish someone could let me know why the harddrive stopped working...I like answers! In the other thread you had not mentioned this. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 552096 | 2007-05-22 14:28:00 | basically, ide is obsolete. SATA2 is the new standard, backward compatible with SATA. if you want an external drive, using a usb enclosure, the type of hdd interface to use would be the one used in the enclosure would it not? i have had no problems with both seagate and WD, but prefer seagate. keep hearing bad things about hitachi and WD But we do not know what enclosure do we? Or the interface. |
Sweep (90) | ||
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