Good Brand For HDD
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Dropkickmurphys
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I personally would recommend Seagate... lol... I have had my seagate drive years and the only time I had a problem with it, it was easily fixed by SeaTools (their HDD diagnostics software).
I think Western Digital are also good
I think Western Digital are also good
DayTrader
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What's SSH? Is it related to SSD?
DayTrader
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I personally would recommend Seagate... lol... I have had my seagate drive years and the only time I had a problem with it, it was easily fixed by SeaTools (their HDD diagnostics software).
I think Western Digital are also good
Then it's probably my luck that my seagates would fail! i heard many good things about them which is why i bought them. it seems that many things on my build were shotty.
DayTrader
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oh that's cool! i've never heard of this.
Ryan_Fpv
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+1 for the Spinpoint F3 1Tb
Also, I did a quick search and your Seagate HDD is the 7200.11 series, which is known to have problems. They fixed the problems in the 7200.12. Since there are well known issues with the .11 series perhaps you could try contacting Seagate and see if they are willing to replace it? Long-shot but it might be worth a try.
Also do a quick google for '7200.11 problems' and see if you can find a solution. Pretty sure it's a hardware or firmware issue though.
Also, I did a quick search and your Seagate HDD is the 7200.11 series, which is known to have problems. They fixed the problems in the 7200.12. Since there are well known issues with the .11 series perhaps you could try contacting Seagate and see if they are willing to replace it? Long-shot but it might be worth a try.
Also do a quick google for '7200.11 problems' and see if you can find a solution. Pretty sure it's a hardware or firmware issue though.
DayTrader
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Thanks for that useful info. I didn't know there was a problem with this model. I'll certainly look into this before buying a new one
Download and run seatools and see if the drives just need to be repaired.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=480bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
This is the dos version so you will need to download it and then use burning software to burn the iso image to a cd and then boot to it and run the extended test.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=480bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
This is the dos version so you will need to download it and then use burning software to burn the iso image to a cd and then boot to it and run the extended test.
Dropkickmurphys
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Seatools is brilliant. It will tell you if there is anythign wrong with your drive and it can fix a lot of errors. The test can take a few hours though, depending on the size of the drive.
2048Megabytes
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There are drawbacks to the Solid State Hybrid drive I read about.
Lower performance (access time) for non-cached data
If the data being accessed is not in the cache and the drive has spun down, access time will be greatly increased since the platters will need to spin-up.
Lower performance for small disk writes
Flash memory is significantly slower for writing small data, an effect that is amplified by use of journaling file systems.
Slightly Increased cost
Hybrid hard drives are currently slightly more expensive than their non-hybrid counterparts, because of the higher cost of flash memory.
Reduced lifetime
A hard drive, once spinning, suffers almost no wear. A significant proportion of wear arises during the spin-up and spin-down processes. Indeed, the number of spin-ups is often given as the indication of the lifetime of a hard drive.
Increased perceived noise production
A hybrid hard drive, spinning up and down, may make drive noise more noticeable, especially with varying usage conditions (i.e., fans and hard drive spinning up on usage).
Lower recoverability
Hybrid hard drives, based on storage to both a flash component and a hard drive component, and bound to use by a specific OS (i.e., Windows Vista), cannot be recovered after failure using classic hard drive recovery services.