Ok, I have a 200gig wd sata drive and event viewer tells me it has bad blocks. I've formatted/scandisk'd it which fixed it for a week or so but they're back so I'm guessing I should start praying to some invisible diety that it doesn't die. I've got my eye on a Seagate Serial ATA NCQ 250GB 7200RPM 8mb Cache for $182 at umart. Has anyone here had any bad times with a seagate of that variety? My current drive is wd and probably a year or so old and for it to have bad blocks already I'm tending to want to stay clear of WD this time around. That is unless someone in the know wants to tell me otherwise.

so, I put it to you
Seagate Serial ATA NCQ 250GB 7200RPM 8mb Cache $182.00
vs
Western Digital 250G SATA 7200 rpm HDD $167.00

don't just say zomg wd maen it's cheaper either please.

zomg wd maen it's cheaper

dont you have warranty on that WD

I was going to put something funny here, but instead i'll let someone else on the forum do the work for me.

Guess i'm just lazy.

ok, it's been bugging me for a while now, nF, just what the hell is that in your avatar?

et!!!

its his grandmother

its a dog hiding undera blanket on a no dogs beach
or its something else

180 bucks for 250 gig!? :O
Thats DECENT! :D

you could be right spook

cos i dun remember et on a beach

i had a seagate have bad sectors 2 years ago

i had a seagate have bad sectors 2 years ago

no freaking way

hmm i still use a 15 gig wd jb 8 meg cache 7200 rpm not one bad sector in it, acutally never goten one bad sector in any of my drive's.

using 2 80 gig sata baracuda's in raid 0 atm,orded 2 wd shop got me baracuda's lol fuken ftc, loud pricks but fast.

still for the f*** up they gave em to for $90 each $20 off each the price at the time so yer.

as for the seagate / wd decision well arguable, personally basied to wd myself, id find out some benchies off the net and grab the faster drive.


last edited by 0z at 23:53:20 19/Aug/05

hmm i still use a 15 gig wd jb 8 meg cache 7200 rpm

I don't use my 2x40GB WD drives anymore. I replaced them with a 120GB Seagate which makes about 3 times less noise and doesn't make the computer sound like it's about to take off :)

can i have your old drive

Yeah, I'd say go to the seagate.

hehe the 15 gig drive is in a usb housing, used to transfer stuff from pc to pc, also xbox and ps2 :)

last edited by 0z at 21:13:38 20/Aug/05

Can I ask 1 thing...

I've got a 300gig seagate, in one pc its reported file table 'corruption' yet on another i'm able to get data from it... It'd be a good idea to get the data off it yeah??? can i do much damage just looking at the data thats currently on it?? eg if i just browse I'm not necessarily going to f*** things as much allowing me time to get another drive?? (i just want to check that I've got time to get another drive...)

Boxhead: it depends on what type of a problem it is.

If it's of a mechanical nature, I'd make a backup as soon as possible, or not use the drive at all if you can't get a replacement for a while.

It really depends how much your data is worth to you :)

haha ok thanks... I just powered it up once and it all seems to be there.. They're mostly 4.3 gig isos of things i've deciced to make isos of before i burn it (photos, home movies :p )...

Hopefully i'll have a replacement by tuesday so if i leave it alone it might be alright :p

I'll leave the box alone and hope that allah is on my side (cause lets face it, he is the kick ass god atm :P )

Topic: my hard drive is dying. seagate or wd?

You have my sympathy...

last edited by Zylox at 07:36:22 21/Aug/05

last edited by Zylox at 07:36:34 21/Aug/05

i've had tonnes of seagates die, and f***loads of wds die at work. So, you're f***ed either way, may as well just pick the cheaper one, or buy some weird outside brand like fujitsu or some s***, like it matters