| 2007/1/7-16 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:45525 Activity:nil | 1/7 Looking to get an external HD for my mom (not yermom). Fry's has an
ACOMDATA 250GB USB 2.0 for $70 after rebate, but I see only review on
teh Intarweb (and it's suspiciously glowing). Any of you fine sodans
have experience with this product or its ilk? TIA. --erikred
\_ Seagate has 5 year warranty, I think. However their reliability
has gone down the drain in the past few years. I have a WD250
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| 2006/8/9-11 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:43951 Activity:nil | 8/8 I want to replace the 30GB HD in a 1Ghz iBook. Will any notebook HD
do? Any recommendations? Price/Reliability more important than perf.
I'm looking at a Hitachi Travelstar or Seagate Momentus from newegg.
\_ I've used Travelstar's before in a PB, they are fine.
\_ I went through 2 Travelstars before installing a Seagate.
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| 2005/12/22-23 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:41113 Activity:moderate | 12/21 What's the quietest, most reliable 300-500GB HD out there these
days? I'm mainly concerned with reliability/sound/price per GB
to store lots of media stuff, and I'm not too concerned about
performance. Also a related question, when do you guys think
1T drives will come out, 2008? 2009?
\_ in my experience, seagate drives tend to be quieter than others
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| 2005/5/9-11 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37579 Activity:kinda low | 5/8 Poll. If you even had to return a HD, what was your experience like?
\_ Hitachi: Regular RMA, No advanced RMA, test suite sucks
\_ WD: Had 2 consecutive failures (same model) in 6 months, the RMA
website is really good, has tracking and advanced RMA. Advanced RMA
requires you putting in credit card number so that if you don't
return the defective drive in 30 days they'll charge you. It's not
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| 2005/5/5-9 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37545 Activity:low | 5/5 I have a Hitachi/IBM Travelstar 80G HD that occasionally makes loud
clicking noise unrelated to head seek. Today while moving a 150M file
I started hearing that clicking noise again, and 1 min later my
computer freezes. I rebooted, tried copying other files and it's fine
and went back to the same file, and it freezes again. Help?
\_ Download the diagnostic from the http://hgst.com web site.
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| 2005/5/2-4 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:37454 Activity:moderate | 5/2 I'm that noise intolerant guy who wanted to make my PC noiseless.
Here is my update. In addition to changing my power supply to
Seasonic Tornado (which is nearly inaudible at around 20db), today,
I just received my brand new Papst 80X80mmcase fan. At $18.95 each,
it costs 3X more and weighs 2X more than the other fans. However,
it is only 12db and just as efficient as the other fans. It's
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| 2005/1/17-18 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:35742 Activity:high | 1/17 My DMA is in fact turned on, but I'm hardly getting the 133 rate
in my ATA133 as claimed by my motherboard and hard-drive. What
are some culprits in the lack of performance? ok thx.
\_ How are you measuring the throughput?
\_ You know nothing can sustain ATA133 throughput, right?
\_ And you're running which OS?
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| 2004/10/13-15 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:34095 Activity:kinda low | 10/13 Here's a stupid question, can I copy playstation2 games using my
DVD writer? DVD+R? -R? booktype?
\_ I know DVD-R works but I think you need to get your PS2 modchipped.
\_ So ps2 will not work with DVD-R or +R unless chipped?
\_ I think there's some boot-disc hack also, but basically: yes.
\_ You want to start at http://lik-sang.com--they at least used to sell
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| 2004/8/27-28 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:33192 Activity:insanely high | 8/27 I'm currently running a 1.2 Ghz Celeron with 386 megs or so of RAM.
I'm thinking of buying a new machine, but I want to go cheap, maybe
less than $500. I want to end up with a nice machine and a crap
machine at the end of this. (Crap machine so my wife can do email and
stuff) so don't need a CD drive or monitor, and the video card
doesn't have to be great because I already have a nice one in my
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| 2003/6/1 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:28598 Activity:very high 50%like:28593 | 5/31 I had another hard drive failure recently, making this 2 drives over
\_ ALL hard drives fail eventually. back up your data.
\_ ALL backups fail eventually. back up your backups.
\_ the return of the fucking motd comedian! all
hail. fuck off.
\_ actually, it's true. if your data is important you'll
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| 2003/5/15 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:28441 Activity:high | 5/14 Any ideas as to how to fix a firewire drive that won't mount?
It's a friend's mac, and I couldn't help him, so I'm just wondering if
it's a common problem.
\_ show it a few videos, and try turning the lights down. maybe
if the mac dresses up like a PC?
\_ I thought this was pretty funny, but you're still a jackass. -op
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