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GoHardDrive.com WD Caviar SE16 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive $67 Discuss (2)

NewEgg.com OCZ Core Series OCZSSD2-1C64G 2.5" 64GB SSD $106 Discuss (6)

Buy.com Western Digital 640GB USB 2.0 External HDD $85 Discuss (1)

Buy.com Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1TB USB / eSATA / FireWire $200 Discuss (4)

Wow. God hates this drive because it's made by satan himself, and now it's even cheaper. Even he can't smite it. If you don't believe me, ask him yourself.

#1 como te llamas?

I'm a WD hater, but for some odd reason I just purchased 2 of these! .14/gb isn't a great deal, but I've heard nothing but great things about these drives. Time to see how they compare to the Samsung F1's, both in striped Raid 0. Oo

#3 RAID is not a backup, lol @ your loss of 1TB of data when either of the drives die

1) Is it "Green Power"?
2) There are different RAID, some of them backuping..

Bought two, neither works well with my Abit IP-35E mobo. Seagate 320G works just fine, don't know why this doesn't work. Just beware if you have the same mobo.

any raid with mirroring or parity can be considered a sort of backup, but what to do if some nasty porn site script erases all those asian kiddy videos? tsk. tsk. A backup of erases data is still just erased data. At that point you either need manual backups or a storage subsystem that performs journaling and can recover data by rolling back filesystem transactions, kinda like a high-end DB does it.

Wow, you guys must be completely retarded. RAID 0 has to do with performance, not backup. Maybe I missed it, but where exactly did #3 say he was using RAID 0 for backup purposes? F'ing morons. Might try learning to read, or shutting your mouths, or both.

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Bought two, neither works well with my Abit IP-35E mobo. Seagate 320G works just fine, don't know why this doesn't work. Just beware if you have the same mobo.

Really? That's a shame. I just set up a Windows Vista computer with the Abit IP35-Pro. The express motherboards must have some crazy driver issues or other things.

This hard drive is pretty quiet and quite fast. Yes, not the best bargain compared to the other hard drives in the 750gb-1tb range, but I trust Western Digital over other company hard drives. [/quote]

#1 is SATA short for satan? I didn't know.

#4, Where did I State Back-Up??? It's for a Gaming/Internet surfing rig only. There's no need for a redundant array, I need nothing but speed. Yes, You're a moron and I can back THAT up! PSST

got one of these (not from newegg, since i dont like the way they wrap (or dont wrap in this case) their oem hard drives.)

very fast and very quiet. look up the reviews, its usually #1 or #2 in all the tests

#6,

I have an IP35 (same BIOS as yours) and I had hell with this drive, too. The 1st one I RMA'd because of weird perf. issues (taking all night to format and still erroring out, etc..)

It worked fine via USB adapter, but I wanted it for an OS drive. After LOTS of goggling, I stumble across a tech note on Intel's website the referred to a problem with Vista and the "lower number SATA ports" on the motherboards that use the ICH8 and ICH9 chipsets (IP35/E has ICH9).

Their resolution was to not use anything but higher number ports (moved mine from port1 to port5) and that fixed it. Sure was frustrating, considering I dont run Vista but only tried moving ports when nothing else worked.

Hope it helps..

#13 - good info. For a change.

Great. Thanks.

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