Formac Disk Mini Hard drive 160 GB

Advantages: ease of connection
Disadvantages: shockingly bad complete lack of guidance for set up

..., and here it is, all working properly (you lie device manager) Look on the disc, masses of folders and files, all gibberish and unreadable by my computer. Finally find a manual, contains a 16 page PDF document. Quite possibly the worst manual I have ever seen. It's not until page 10 that you get a bit about setting it up on your computer. Then all it tells you is to get windows to do it. Now I am not an expert so having sought some advice, I identify that I have to do some with with disk management, and eventually work out myself that it needs a partition, drive letter and formatting. Quite important, and some guidance from Formac would have been nice. It's now working, it's very quiet, and lightening fast, but first impressions do count, and the stress of setting it up, with the gradual dawning that it may have to go back with all the hassle... Read review

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Advantages: Fast spindle speed, large buffer, high capacity, fast data speed
Disadvantages: May need SATA interface card

...Upgrading... Everyone does it (eventually). After upgrading my computer, i decided to get a new hard disk. Mine was becoming full of stuff, so i had a look to see what i could get. I know hard drives are now available in stupendously large sizes now (500GB+), but i decided on two of these 160gb drives along with a Highpoint SATA Raid card (gives me a 320gb drive) With raid, data is written and read across the drives (Raid 0), which speeds up the process by about 50-75% Installation of the drives / card was done as follows: 1/ Plug the highpoint card into an available pci slot 2/ Plug the SATA cables onto the highpoint card. 3/ Plug one SATA cable into each hard drive 4/ Plug a power cable into the drives 5/ Go into Highpoint cards bios and setup the raid array. 6/ Format drive and install windows. Once up and running, the speed... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, Silent, Price
Disadvantages: Nothing

...for these drives is extremely cheap, I've seen a Samsung Spinpoint 160gb hard disk for sale at £59.99, which is a brilliant price for these drives. If I was looking to purchase another hard disk then Samsung would definately be the first place I would look and wouldn't think twice about purchasing another Samsung drive.... Read review

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