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| 04 Apr 2009 | #1 |
| | Rip hdd Well, i've just laid my 250GB external HDD to rest. Damn thing has a mechanical problem and heats up to stupid temps & is no longer detected. Was working fine yesterday afternoon but not the evening. To say i'm pi**ed would be an understatement as 230Gigs of it was used by Music/Software/Pictures & over 160 movies. I was looking for an excuse to buy a 1TB drive & now I have it LOL. Better go shopping on monday. Farewell my friend  we've had some good times. |
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| 04 Apr 2009 | #2 |
| | Ouch, that's rough mate. Avoid the higher capacity Seagates if you can. They have had a very high failure rate lately. The 1TB WD My Book has a decent rep. Whereas the WD 1TB Essential is known to have a faulty power supply. |
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| 04 Apr 2009 | #3 |
| | Avoid seagates altogether. The best 1tb drive atm is still the samsung. Another one I would consider would be the WD 1tb. |
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| 04 Apr 2009 | #4 |
| | Thanx guys, i'm not too sure what is the best make for me so any advise is great |
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| 05 Apr 2009 | #5 |
| | Western Digital 1tb Black, 5 year warranty 1Bowtie |
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| 05 Apr 2009 | #6 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by swarfega  Avoid seagates altogether. The best 1tb drive atm is still the samsung. Another one I would consider would be the WD 1tb. I'll grant that the WD 1TB Black is faster overall but I've seen quite a few dead WD over the years. |
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| 05 Apr 2009 | #7 |
| | Thanks, i've even just checked & my dead hd is a Barracuda 7200.8 |
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| 05 Apr 2009 | #8 |
| | If you do get a My Book DON'T use the WD software when you install it... |
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