And so my hard drive died.
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If you need a new Seagate...
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4697778
$189, 500GB
Edit: Nevermind, you're in the UK
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4697778
$189, 500GB
Edit: Nevermind, you're in the UK
SickBoy
Croatian Panzer division
kev said:
And you're wondering why your HDD died?!
There's your most probable cause!
People, try to finally understand the importance of PSU's for the stability and durability of your PC's! It's the part that may not cost much, but people would much rather spend 50$ on anything else than PSU (like DVD burner, for example), maybe cause they don't feel they use them "directly".... Many debate how stable some component is, but less people consider the environments they were in...
Look, your PSU is responsible for delivering the stable current to the components inside the case. The cheap PSU's have their wattage measured in low temperature conditions, cause the output wattage drops with an increase in working temperature. Your PSU would output maybe mere 200W in Malaysia...
Not just that, their current is often "dirty", having oscillations in their values and that most often damages the sensitive circuits of the components inside. That's why it doesn't matter if you run some state-of-the-art GFX card with 2 additional power connectors... If you were running it, you'd simply require a PSU with more output wattage, but again - a QUALITY one!Some of the really good and quality PSUs are Fortron, Chieftec and Tagan.
They all have excellent 400W models for around 50$ (at least in Croatia) and often warranty durations of 2, even 3 years.
Now, if the rest of you bunch have some sorry ass PSU inside (MS, JNC, Codegen, ______ you name it), REPLACE IT IMMEDIATELY!
Its something i'd like to do when i get round to it, ive heard lots about this on computer forums etc. I dont believe the PSU is in anyway responsible in this situation though, as the drive is actually refurbished anyway. I do know exactly what you're talking about- cheap PSUs provide an unreliable means of power in many cases its just a tagan/hiper over here can cost so much! 
I really should...
I really should...
SickBoy
Croatian Panzer division
kev said:
Think about it like this...
A drive is spining at 7200rpm and moves its read/write head around very quickly. Imagine that in the middle of the read/write process the current drops a little, it is quite possible that the data intended for writing wasn't placed or written properly. In the most severe cases, who knows what might happen... I've had a JNC's PSU in my computer when I first bought it and after a while my HDD started going off and on again during the work, even if there wasn't any heavy HDD load. I changed my PSU to Fortron and for the past 3-4 years - never a single problem (knock on wood).
SickBoy said:
yup, perfectly plausable
But the other hard disk has never had a bad sector yet, who knows tho, there are umpteen million reasons why it could of happend 
Torniojaws
They call me Juha
Go SCSI 
You should buy a SCSI hard drive, since they are made to be used for decades at 24/7 100% usage. Your entire computer will fail before they do. Sure, they cost more, but then again, not that much.
You should buy a SCSI hard drive, since they are made to be used for decades at 24/7 100% usage. Your entire computer will fail before they do. Sure, they cost more, but then again, not that much.
SickBoy
Croatian Panzer division
Torniojaws said:
If he had a server, I'd definitely support that.
I think there's absolutely no need for those in home applications...
EIDE and especially SATA are more than fast enough to satisfy most needs and even with SCSI one should do backups, so there's not that many reasons IMO to use SCSI instead of EIDE/SATA.
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