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Vashypooh

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Currently I have a WD800JB, Ive had the hard drive for years on end, however 80gb finally is not cutting it for me anymore, I'm looking to upgrade to a nice solid drive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145129

That is the current drive I am looking at. I am looking to not cross over $75 if possible. I'm hoping to get a drive that is faster and possibly more silent. Only problem is I only have Sata 150 which that drive is is 300, would there be a real performance difference in this? according to the reviews i need to make a boot CD and change the hard drive using that method. Seems a little strange but whatever.

Any ideas on maybe another drive or any comments?

Vash
 
Vashypooh said:
Currently I have a WD800JB, Ive had the hard drive for years on end, however 80gb finally is not cutting it for me anymore, I'm looking to upgrade to a nice solid drive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145129

That is the current drive I am looking at. I am looking to not cross over $75 if possible. I'm hoping to get a drive that is faster and possibly more silent. Only problem is I only have Sata 150 which that drive is is 300, would there be a real performance difference in this? according to the reviews i need to make a boot CD and change the hard drive using that method. Seems a little strange but whatever.

Any ideas on maybe another drive or any comments?

Vash
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You won't notice the difference between a SATA I and II drive. ;)

hmz said:
There you go.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140

Best bang for the buck.
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Slightly better ;)
 
The same Western Digital I have now the WD800JB i had to RMA 8 different times all drives dying. Why exactly do you recommend them over the other? I got really tired paying to RMA the drive every few months at MY expense because WD refused to help.
 
Vashypooh said:
The same Western Digital I have now the WD800JB i had to RMA 8 different times all drives dying. Why exactly do you recommend them over the other? I got really tired paying to RMA the drive every few months at MY expense because WD refused to help.
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You may want to look at your PSU instead of the drives. ;) What PSU do you have?
 
protias said:
You may want to look at your PSU instead of the drives. ;) What PSU do you have?
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Was using a Antec truepower 430w ages ago on a 1800+ athlon system. Was one of the best at the time. And im gonna get the seagate instead cuz Im not touching a WD again.
 
hmz said:
A little cheaper, but I'd definitely buy Seagate. My 320GB is very quiet.
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Well, I have both WD3200KS and Seagate 320GB 7200.10s. I love both drives, but the WD is cheaper and I can attest to it being very quite. I have a number of WD500AAKS and they are whisper quite. The AAKS are very quite and I remember the 7200.10s having a problem with bad batches so some where very loud. I don't know if they are still having those problems now. So, I would go with the cheaper drive here, which is the WD3200AAKS.
Vashypooh said:
Was using a Antec truepower 430w ages ago on a 1800+ athlon system. Was one of the best at the time. And im gonna get the seagate instead cuz Im not touching a WD again.
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The caps in those TP units are garbage. If you pop it open, I bet you'll find leaking caps, which would lead to out of spec ripple, causing your drives to fry.
 
No leaky caps :p Its in healthy shape, i tested it with multimeter and everything as well, its power was fine. WD drives just dont like me
 
Vashypooh said:
No leaky caps :p Its in healthy shape, i tested it with multimeter and everything as well, its power was fine. WD drives just dont like me
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If you look at all my systems, I have never had that kind of problem you do. Although, my TPII did have 2 busted caps, so Martin is out of commission until I can replace that PSU.

I have only had 1 bad WD drive, and that was bad from the manufacturer. It was a Raptor 150, 3 months after I got it. I had done a test on it and it failed. I had noticed some slow down with it, among other things (no clicking or anything like that).
 
I purchased the seagate drive, does that seagate have to require a .ISO to configure the drive to run in Sata 1.5 or whatever?
 
game14 said:
just plugg it in and youre ready to go
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Thanks, the other seagate I origionally linked said you had to get a cd to turn it into 1.5 mode. Wanted to make sure so if i did I could get the cd burned ahead of time and not get there and be like damnit haha
 
Vashypooh said:
No leaky caps :p Its in healthy shape, i tested it with multimeter and everything as well, its power was fine. WD drives just dont like me
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did u check for ripple? by hooking it up an oscilloscope? ;)
 
Vashypooh said:
The same Western Digital I have now the WD800JB i had to RMA 8 different times all drives dying. Why exactly do you recommend them over the other? I got really tired paying to RMA the drive every few months at MY expense because WD refused to help.
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This search is for you. Under $75, no WD drives included, sorted by price per gigabyte.

If you run into any problems with the search, please let me know - I wrote it. It takes a while to come up sometimes because it has to go check prices, but once it loads once it'll be fast for a while.
 
This is stressing me out. My Seagate came today finally, and yea. I got vista installed and everything but i kept hearing this loud "TICK" and "CLICK" It was pretty loud too. I tried to ignore it but i couldn't so now i am RMAing it. Me + hard drives = sad :(
 
Vashypooh said:
WD drives just dont like me
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Vashypooh said:
This is stressing me out. My Seagate came today finally, and yea. I got vista installed and everything but i kept hearing this loud "TICK" and "CLICK" It was pretty loud too. I tried to ignore it but i couldn't so now i am RMAing it. Me + hard drives = sad :(
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Replace your power supply before you get any more drives. It can't hurt, and it might help.
 
This is a whole new PC not the same PSU that was with the WD's. And its a SFF Shuttle XPC. I cant replace PSU. Hard drives just hate me.
 
PC_User said:
$5 cheaper and 2 years less warranty. I go for the Seagate.
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Yes, because when a drive dies you get that data back. :rolleyes:

I've only had 1 WD die on me, and that was a drive that faulty from the beginning (bad batch).
 
protias said:
Yes, because when a drive dies you get that data back. :rolleyes:

I've only had 1 WD die on me, and that was a drive that faulty from the beginning (bad batch).
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1. It's still nice to at least get something back after 3 years, even if it is just a new drive.
2. 70% of the time, the data is recoverable.
3. Seagate does have data recovery services.
4. There is only a $5 difference. The Seagate is also a bit faster.
 
PC_User said:
3. Seagate does have data recovery services.
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When was the last time you got a quote from them? Most other places I know of charge somewhere around $500. Seagate also handles all types of media, so it's not a Seagate-specific benefit.
PC_User said:
The Seagate is also a bit faster.
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Eh, kind of a tossup, actually. Either drive is a decent improvement over the one he's currently got, though.
 
protias said:
Yes, because when a drive dies you get that data back. :rolleyes:

I've only had 1 WD die on me, and that was a drive that faulty from the beginning (bad batch).
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@ my guard unit we replace more hitachi, maxtor, and seagate drives than WD drives in that order
 
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