Seagate 7200.11 500gb sata - Page 3

Adrian Wong · 5th May 2008, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digerati

Hitachi's drives were for a period, notorious for breaking down, but I think these issues no longer exist.

I think you are referring to the IBM Deskstar HDDs before they were bought over by Hitachi. We used to call them Deathstars.

Cyberwarrior · 5th May 2008, 03:23 PM

I am using one as main drive right now,has never let me down.

CALLOFDUTY05 · 5th May 2008, 04:16 PM

Yeah i've also used many drives while most failures were Seagates in my case & 1 WD failure but no Hitachi failure till date.I prefer Hitachis over Seagate.

sunsetbay · 5th May 2008, 08:45 PM

just bought one today~! 500gb 32mb cache sata2 for S$130~!

Adrian Wong · 5th May 2008, 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sunsetbay

just bought one today~! 500gb 32mb cache sata2 for S$130~!

Hey there, sunsetbay!

Congrats! What brand is it?

sunsetbay · 6th May 2008, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Hey there, sunsetbay!

Congrats! What brand is it?

i got the seagate. was caught in between WD & seagate but eventually decided to give seagate another try since the review favour the seagate 500gb~!

CALLOFDUTY05 · 7th May 2008, 12:27 AM

Seagate's .10 & .11 has improved a lot than the previous 7200.9 series.Specially the .10 based 250GB drive which i'm using now is a very fast drive because of the PR technology & having a single platter also should last more than the drives with 4-5 platters.Although the .10 250GB Seagate runs pretty fast but it's still 5-6C hotter than my other Hitachi drive.Anyways, anyone tried the WD VelociRaptor drives yet ? They are supposed to be the fastest drive ?

Lacus · 11th May 2008, 08:22 PM

is this drive good? I'm currently deciding on getting a new hdd and had this model in mind

hjlavery · 12th May 2008, 11:45 AM

I have a heap of drives, mainly WD and Samsung (and 400 or 500gb) and I have found that unless I actualy run a benchmark I cant tell the difference most of the time.

That said, over the years I have killed less Samsungs then anything else

5th May 2008, 03:23 PM	#22 (permalink)
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5th May 2008, 08:45 PM	#24 (permalink)
sunsetbay I'm a regular Join Date: 4 May 2005 Location: sillypore Posts: 488 Reputation: 185 Rep Power: 5	just bought one today~! 500gb 32mb cache sata2 for S$130~! __________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - - our minds play tricks on us - - - ☻sunsetbay's wap!! ☻

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