Does anyone know much about this hard drive

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| Has anyone out there tried this hard drive. I need some feed back if you
| have.......... or if you have heard anything about this one. Western Digital
| 120GB / 7200 RPM / 8MB / 8.9ms / ATA-100 / EIDE Hard Drive and it's at
| http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...s.asp?EdpNo=291932&Sku=THD-1200JB P&CatId=818

It's supposed to be a very good hard drive, although some people have reported
problems. That would be true for any hard drive I know anything about, however.
You can get it for less money at Newegg ($94 including shipping vs. $109.99 plus
shipping) and can also read more than 200 user reviews.

Note that WD drives from Newegg are OEM, which means they don't come with
cables. You would need to buy an 80-wire cable if you don't already have one.

The three-year warranty is backed by WD.

http://tinyurl.com/yiaj

Larc



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it's a good reliable drive and it's fast but it's loud. if that's at all a
concern a better choice would be the samsung sp1213n or sp1614n.
 
Can anyone help me with my hard drive problem? I just bought an
ATA100 60Gb hdd and installed it on my rather old P11 machine, but the
bios will not recognize the drive. My motherboard is UDMA-33, so do I
have to have a pci card to use the new drive? Any ideas?

Wombat
 
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| Can anyone help me with my hard drive problem? I just bought an
| ATA100 60Gb hdd and installed it on my rather old P11 machine, but the
| bios will not recognize the drive. My motherboard is UDMA-33, so do I
| have to have a pci card to use the new drive? Any ideas?

Make sure the jumper on the hard drive is set correctly. Usually remove the
jumper if you have only one hard drive. Also, it could be that your BIOS and/or
OS won't recognize a hard drive as large as 60GB. Check to see if there's a
newer version of your BIOS.

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All the Slot 1 motherboards I have encountered have only been able to take
up to 20GB. BIOS updates are almost impossible to find, so I would suggest
getting an ATA/100 PCI card.
 
Howdy!

Chris said:
All the Slot 1 motherboards I have encountered have only been able to take
up to 20GB. BIOS updates are almost impossible to find, so I would suggest
getting an ATA/100 PCI card.
Click to expand...

<blink> Both the Shuttle in my youngest daughter's machine, and the
venerable MSI MS-6116 boards that one customer has over 1,000 of, flash up
to using 128G drives.

ATA-33, so yah, a PCI card is better for performance ...

Hell, the Slot1-Socket370 combo boards from GVC did 64G
automatically.

BTW - If they can take 20G, they can take 32G. Powers of two, don't
you know?

But, yah, I'd recommend the card anyway so that the OP could take
advantage of ATA-66+ speeds.

RwP
 
Not knowing any better, but would that card do any good, considering the
BIOS doesn't recognise the HDD anyway.

the_gnome
 
Howdy!

the gnome said:
Not knowing any better, but would that card do any good, considering the
BIOS doesn't recognise the HDD anyway.
Click to expand...

Sure - because the BIOS on the CARD does the control.

RwP
 
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