Western Digital 200GB SE

[IgoByte]

We should be at 240GB 7200RPM by year's end...

80GB platters

Comes in handy for digital video. . .

 

[Poochy]

Remember back when a 200 MB hard drive was considered insanely huge?

I remember when a 20 MB hard drive was considered huge . Good old Seagate ST-225.

 

[kof]

Originally posted by: Poochy
Remember back when a 200 MB hard drive was considered insanely huge?

I remember when a 20 MB hard drive was considered huge . Good old Seagate ST-225.

First hard drive - 30MB, $3000

 

[Josh]

Western Digital has a "MONSTER DRIVE" that's 200 GB, it's "only" like $300 though!

WD Website

 

[GetReal]

Originally posted by: joshpokeball
Western Digital has a "MONSTER DRIVE" that's 200 GB, it's "only" like $300 though!

WD Website

Hmmm.. looks more like $400 to me. link

 

[popeye44]

SERIAL ATA INFO

I am lookin at a 120 and this 200 being on the market should drop the price a wee bit

 

[BobSnob]

P.S, BobSnob, I noticed that my newest WD100 click too, but only during boot up. Wonder if I ought to consider trying to return it??
VegasF6

No, it should click on power on but you shouldn't hear a click again until you power off. Mine would click-click every hour or two during normal usage (nothing to do with power saving btw).

 

[Paazel]

Originally posted by: popeye44
SERIAL ATA INFO I am lookin at a 120 and this 200 being on the market should drop the price a wee bit

i picked up the 120 SE at compusa for $120 AR! (well closer to $140, 8.25% tax here in nyc)

 

[thortyboy]

Originally posted by: aznblader
Come to think of it, that was about ten years ago. 2^10 = about 1000.

Moore's Law for hard drives.

i thought moore only had a law for the numbers of transistors on a cpu

 

[Josh]

Originally posted by: GetReal

Originally posted by: joshpokeball
Western Digital has a "MONSTER DRIVE" that's 200 GB, it's "only" like $300 though!

WD Website

Hmmm.. looks more like $400 to me. link

Yea, mah bad. Still cheaper than $500 or whatever.

 

[mrVW]

My 2nd WD 120GB SE has died after 3 months... clicking won't start 90% of the time. WD was good back in 1990, but they suck now. I've purchased 12 Maxtors over the past year and none of them have failed.

 

[ynotravid]

Originally posted by: Jstic
...One of the pluses of serial ATA isthe smaller cable and the amount of drives that can be used simultaneously...

These reasons are good enough for me. I mean it's the phisical limitations of the HDD that are what's holding it back (access times etc...) so little things like not having to deal with ribbon cables are what's going to be so cool.

 

[Flaredair]

Originally posted by: mrVW
My 2nd WD 120GB SE has died after 3 months... clicking won't start 90% of the time. WD was good back in 1990, but they suck now. I've purchased 12 Maxtors over the past year and none of them have failed.

My Western Digital 120gb hard drive also died after 2 months. Yes, it also had the click of death problem.
Those a double s holes at Western digital sent me a refurb to replace my drive. Boy was I pissed at those those F-N bastards. Last WD drive I will ever purchase!!!!!!!

 

[Bookmage]

hrmm... so im looking for a 120GB 7200 drive with an 8MB buffer, who makes them?
only WD... so it looks like im gonna have to get WD....
/me kicks Seagate nad Maxtor for not making 16MB buffers on their hard drives

 

[RideFree]

BigDaddy & mrVW,
your message(s) are scary as I recently got in on one of the WD1200 8Mb drives from Dell as listed on AT/Hot Deals.

This is the drive I've started using for backup. Too bad there is not an Icon for Worried!

Funny thing, I've just gotten a new D540X and it seems faster then the WD1200. However, I've not tested 'em. Makes no sense, of course.

 

[vinnyracer]

No, it should click on power on but you shouldn't hear a click again until you power off. Mine would click-click every hour or two during normal usage (nothing to do with power saving btw).

I had a Maxtor 80GB. After about 3 month of clicking sound, the hard drive die on me.

One more thing. I don't know if this happen to WD hard drive, but for Maxtor, if you fill the hard drive up with files and have less than a gig left, you'll start to have problem with it. So, if you have a Maxtor, just make sure you leave about a couple of GB of space open and don't fill it up or else you'll start having problem with it. It problem happen to me and my friend.

 

[vinnyracer]

Those a double s holes at Western digital sent me a refurb to replace my drive. Boy was I pissed at those those F-N bastards. Last WD drive I will ever purchase!!!!!!!

It is normal for most hard drive compaines to replace die drive with a refurbish drive.


BTW, I think most click of death comes from fill up the drive.

 

[hpfanatic]

There are 4 places listed on Pricewatch showing these. Cheapest is $435 shipped, and it appears in stock.

WD2000JB

 

[esquared]

Originally posted by: thortyboy

Originally posted by: aznblader
Come to think of it, that was about ten years ago. 2^10 = about 1000.

Moore's Law for hard drives.

i thought moore only had a law for the numbers of transistors on a cpu

I think Moore's law is also doubling the # of transistors every 18 months (1 1/2 years). Even if this applied to storage, it would be 10years/1.5 years= 6.7, approximately. 2^6.7=104
104 x 200 MB is only around 20 GB

 

[rch4001]

Serial ATA info from Toms Hardware

 

[vinnyracer]

check this out, 320 GB

http://www.maxtor.com/products/enterprise_apps/default.htm

 

[KaEdOgG]

I've heard there are no real big advantages w/ Serial ATA... for now...

Tom's HW linkie

 

[Jhill]

My 80 gig WD drive just started clicking and freezing. It offiicialy not dead but I suspect it will be soon. It's 7 months old.

 

[huesmann]

I suggest you turn it into Warranty Service ASAP then before it actually goes out.

 

[pecel]

Any software that can detect before the HD start clicking so we can have some time to back up the HD?

Thanks.