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Postby deathagent » Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:48 pm

I need to get a new HD for my computer 'cause fansubs (unliscensed, of course) take up a lot of space and AMVs don't help=) so i need more room but I have no idea what HD brands to buy and what to stay away from. Im looking for a HD that's at lest 120GB, but bigger is good too for my computer which is a gateway 500s with an 80GB HD, 1024MB ram, A cd/dvd-r drive (if that matters, and has a 2.4ghz processor pentium 4 processor
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Postby aznfs » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:01 pm

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Postby AMVfreak » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:03 pm

Seagate
Western digital
Maxtor
Hitachi


these are what I know of that seems to be pretty efficent.
But then again, Im not really a hardware expert :/

i want it too; i just have no money

Me too! In fact I actually have the same exact webpage saved on my computer; Im planning to get it sooner or later when I get some cash
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Postby deathagent » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:08 pm

Very nice! arigatou gozaimasu
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Postby CerebralAssamite » Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:30 am


Yeah i got one of them.. i should have stuck with Seagate :roll:
ya know the old story.. just bad luck i guess :shrug:
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Postby deathagent » Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:05 am

No, i dont kno the story, it crash or sumthin?
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Postby AMVfreak » Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:49 pm

deathagent wrote:No, i dont kno the story, it crash or sumthin?


x2 :?

I would like to know :?:
Im planning to buy this and apparently I dont feel like getting ripped off if IT is inefficient/
But I trust tigerdirect, gepetto might you have fucked it up?
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Postby CerebralAssamite » Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:51 pm

Ok so i buy a 200G Western Digital, now ive had 3 other seagate hdd's before (got rid of them to upgrade space only!) so this time i decided to go WD, i get home install win xp (done that about ... 100000 times) i get it up and running and then while installing photoshop (like ive done many times) it decides to blue screen on me.

In the history of all my many months and like 2 years i think that ive had it, i have never ever had a blue screen with XP!. So i said well no matter i restarted and when it went to boot it crapped itself and spat up errors.
(I dont remember the exact words) so i went into xp recovery and used the fixmbr command, this didnt help at all.

I figured out eventually that the mbr had crapped itself, all i did was install a program and it blue screened.. well i went to their site and got a program that fixes the mbr it works now but im very weiry of using it with my amv's on it :?

Theres the story just my bad luck i guess, ill stick with seagate from now on haha.
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Postby Scintilla » Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:55 pm

AMVfreak wrote:
deathagent wrote:No, i dont kno the story, it crash or sumthin?

x2 :?

I would like to know :?:
Im planning to buy this and apparently I dont feel like getting ripped off if IT is inefficient/
But I trust tigerdirect, gepetto might you have fucked it up?

I've read somewhere that many people who've worked with multiple hard drives over a good length of time have at least one horror story of how their hard drive failed on them, and as a result they understandably never want to touch that brand again.

Personally, I see no reason to avoid Western Digital any more than any other brand. They've been a very well respected hard drive brand for years; I believe my father got WD's in our old 386 and the Pentium or two that came after it, and never had a problem with them. As well, I've had my WD-80 (not to be confused with WD-40) for about a year, <i>and it's got a 3-year warranty,</i> and no problems yet.
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Postby LovEnPeaCE » Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:30 pm



if you look at http://www.newegg.com, you will find the same hard drive for about $100 if you don't feel like waiting on the rebate.
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Postby MTWStudios » Thu Sep 16, 2004 7:59 pm

Scintilla wrote: I believe my father got WD's in our old 386 and the Pentium or two that came after it, and never had a problem with them.


Yes he did... WD Caviars 2340 (341.2MB) and 2420 (425.3MB)... and as of acouple of weeks ago, I can still read the files off them with no problem...

The pentium (166MHz) had a WD Caviar 6.4GB which now resides in another computer, running Linux, as the only drive.... I've had no problems with it so far...

So at least our WDs lasted quite awhile... :wink:
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Postby oldwrench » Fri Sep 17, 2004 5:42 pm

I have four machines running WD drives and they work fine. One I have been using in my main machine for over three years. Once I had a WD drive cause a problem, it became very slow after a couple dadys use. WD sent me a new drive within three days, I was happy with their service.
I think all the major drive mfgs make very good drives, it is just a matter of which you prefer or can afford.
It's amazing these things work at all. A few years ago Scott Mueller wrote an analogy of a hard drive in his book, Upgrading and Repairing PCs. He used a 2gb 7200rpm barracuda drive for the specifications. Magnifiing everything by 200,000 times, the head would be about 1,300 feet by 300 feet ( the size of the Sears tower lying down), floating on a cushion of air 1 inch thick, moving at a forward speed of 10.7 million miles per hour (2,975 mi per second). :shock: It would read data bits 3.83 inches apart on tracks 5.47 feet apart. In order to have seek times of 8 miliseconds it would have to have lateral velocitys of over 420,000mph (116 mps), and instant acceleration. Thinking of the forward velocity, it would be like that skyscraper circling the earth once every eight seconds. That really makes you wonder how hard drives last as long as they do. :? :)
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