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Post by derekrumble on Mar 2, 2010 11:10:42 GMT
Last Oct bought a cheap 1Tb USB drive from Maplin to use as the main storage for my music library.
Switched on yesterday and it made seriously wrong, repetitive, clicking noises. Luckily only <10% full, and I had plenty of room on another drive - successfully copied all files across but not without fits and starts.. phew.
In to Shrewsbury tomorrow with the drive and receipt to see how they deal with it.
I've never had a drive fail before. Must be lucky I suppose.
Derek
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Post by clausdk on Mar 2, 2010 15:26:14 GMT
I have tried that, but the drive that failed me, was my C drive, I could not understand why that brandnew PC was running like hell and blamed it all on Vista, I reinstalled and reinstalled time after time, but then a good friend tested the HD for me..
I did not bother to take it to the shop for repair, because they would keep it for days and weeks and I can not live without my PC, so I just bougth a new drive and the PC has runned smothly for 4 years now..
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Post by andy on Mar 2, 2010 19:53:39 GMT
Allways get a top quality HDD unless it is for data you dont mind loosing!
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Post by derekrumble on Mar 3, 2010 10:45:24 GMT
The drive was a Seagate at £80 - well known but are they any good?
Just got home from Maplins in Shrewsbury - the manager was friendly and sorted it out quickly.
I now have the replacement Seagate 1TB USB drive; noticed it has a two year warrantee so I'll make sure I file the receipt.
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Post by mrarroyo on Mar 4, 2010 1:09:24 GMT
Glad it all worked out for you, specially since no data was lost.
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Post by insomniac on Mar 4, 2010 10:50:06 GMT
Seagate drives used to be good but I have heard reports of some of the later models >1gig with dodgy firmware which can brick the drive under certain circumstances, producing a lovely aluminium paper weight I would avoid Seagate for this reason and go with Western Digital Green, Blue or Black Caviar depending on where/how the drive will be used. The Green should be avoided if Raid is a requirement as the low power algorithms used in these drives firmware can be interpreted as a drive failure by the Raid Controller. The Caviar Black is a nice model which incorporates many of WD's advanced features from their expensive Enterprise drives... twin processors, large cache, motor spindle fixed at both ends to prevent vibration, 5yr warranty etc. Slightly noisier than the Green and Blue version but much better performance.
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Post by FauDrei on Mar 20, 2010 20:30:32 GMT
x2 on Black Caviar drives.
WD also has quite good Scorpio Black 7200 rpm laptop drives. Not the SSD performance, but desktop HDD speeds in your laptop.
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