Hard drive recommendation.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:21 pm

Well my hard drive is failing in my desktop.
What do you guys recommend? I'm thinking either a Seagate or Western Digital 500G. I think I'll buy a sata drive, then later on I can always buy a second one later.

Right now I have 2 80 gig sata drives and one of them is failing, or maybe both.

Post by **Kills On Site** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:04 pm

Seagate, Western-Digital and Maxtor are my tops, but Maxtor was recently bought by Seagate. There are programs that should be able to tell you if one and which one is failing, although the bootable versions might not like SATA. What brand(s) are the two you have now?

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:29 pm

They are Maxtor's. I think I might go with Seagate 500GB Barracuda 7200.10 SATAII - HD-ST3500630AS

Post by **Kills On Site** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:57 am

Try and boot into SeaTools available at Seagates website or on the Ultimate Boot CD, since Seagate owns Maxtor now. See if you can do full scans on the HDDs and see what errors appear.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:48 am

I used SpinRite and it didn't see any errors.

Post by **Kills On Site** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:01 am

Could just be in need or a reformatting, or zero filling.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:33 am

I nuked it with Darik's Boot and Nuke.
It seems like the hard drive is screwed somehow. It takes a few tries to get it to boot.
I don't think it's a PS issue since I run COD2 without having the computer crash.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:58 pm

I think it's ok.
I think the VGA cable was a bit loose, and the first few times it wouldn't boot. I'll know better tomorrow.

Post by **Kills On Site** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:10 am

Well DBAN is good, and great for erasing data, I don't think it is so great on the helping problematic HDDs. At the school in my internship we had tried DBAN on some HDDs and the HDDs would only work for a short while, later I tried the HDD manufacture's zero filler and it had a higher success rate for keeping the HDDs working.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:50 am

Well bought 2 new hard drives today.
Got 2 Seagate 320 GB SATAII 16MB hard drives.
I'll probably just do a striped raid.

Post by **Captain** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:08 am

Funnily enough, all the way from a P2 to a P4 and up to my current computer, I've only used Western Digital HDDs

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:07 am

FragaGeddon wrote:I nuked it with Darik's Boot and Nuke.
It seems like the hard drive is screwed somehow. It takes a few tries to get it to boot.
I don't think it's a PS issue since I run COD2 without having the computer crash.

Well it looks like it's the power supply causing my problems.
Just tested one of the hard drive connectors and it's only putting out 4.8v and 12v. So I guess I'm off to buy another one.
Which is good because I was thinking the cause might have been with my complex setup with 2 kvm switches.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:27 am

Well I might just go with this power supply.