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.
Originally posted by: joshpokeball
Western Digital has a "MONSTER DRIVE" that's 200 GB, it's "only" like $300 though!
WD Website
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).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??
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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
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.
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
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.Originally posted by: Jstic
...One of the pluses of serial ATA isthe smaller cable and the amount of drives that can be used simultaneously...
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.
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).
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!!!!!!!
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