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Filling up 80 Gigabytes
Advantages: Fast and quiet
Disadvantages: Lack of instructions
Can you possibly fill in 80 GB worth of data on your computer?
I can - all those MP3s, applications and games meant that upgrading from an exisiting 10 GB drive was essential.
Costing around £80, the Deskstar 120GXP did not come with any fixtures or fitting, leads or indeed, instructions.
If you are au fait with PC upgrades, all very well, if not you may want someone who is to install it for you.
After 'cloning' the data from my 10 GB drive to ...
...is how very quiet the drive is - only the flashing red LED on the front of the PC gives it away.
The drive runs at 7,200 RPM so is considerably faster than old 5,400 RPM drives. You certainly notice the difference - Windows loads faster and games and applications too.
Reviews in magazines have questioned the lifespan of this drive, if it used in an 'always-on' PC setup, but my PC is always on and I have not experienced any problems whatsoever.
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 os7210 21.11.2002 · Read full review
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Review of IBM Deskstar 120GXP 80 GB
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It's not hard to drive in the west
Advantages: good space, great price and works a charm
Disadvantages: not quite the full 320GB stated but hey....
...was from a company called Western Digital, who I had dealt with before and felt quite confident about.
** Brief description… (technical stuff coming up)
* 2.5” internal hard drive
* 320GB hard drive * Serial ATA
* 300 Mbps transfer rate
* 5400 rpm spindle speed
* 8 MB buffer zone
* Works with all Windows (not sure about 7)
* Shockgaurd technology protects the drive from shocks
* Whisperdrive technology gives a quiet performance ...
...service, testing the claims that Western Digital made.
They claim that it is one of the quietest internal drives on the market and it does sound quite quiet as it searches for what it’s been asked of, although you can still hear it working.
They also claim that it is optimised so as to improve battery life, well, I have put it to the test several times and can definitely say that the claims are quite true indeed as I have noticed a vast improvement ...
 blissman70 10.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEVT 320 GB
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Barracuda 7200.11 AVOID at all costs
Advantages: low noise
Disadvantages: no reliability what so ever, will definitely break unless you update firmware
The Seagate 7200.11 is probably is worst hard disk there is. I have only had it for 9 months and it's broken. I will keep myself to be subjective when writing this review though - so there's no need to worry! = the BASICS The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 was released in 2008. It was the 11th generation of the Barracuda line of hard drives. It comes in 160Gb, 320Gb, 500Gb (mine), 640Gb, 750Gb, 1TB and 1.5TB. It runs on 3 disk platters and can be subjected ...
...because of a firmware problem. Seagate has apparently released a fix for it but who ever (except system administrators of course) updates their hard drive firmware? Once the hard drive breaks down there is no way of updating the firmware, so I am now stuck with a bricked drive. Apparently there is a fix for it - requiring soldering and many hocus pocus which I am not at all comfortable with so the data on the drive is gone! Lucky the drive isn't ...
 ecolier 01.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500 GB
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Don't need a big hard drive?
Advantages: Fast transfer speeds, quiet, great when it works
Disadvantages: Unreliable, had to be replaced
...are found only on certain Samsung drives, and claim to reduce the sound the drive makes, particularly when spinning fast to find lots of data. I'm interested to see how well they work! The Drive The hard drive was delivered in typical minimal Samsung packaging - once I'd removed all the bubble wrap and foamy peanuts from the plain cardboard box, there was just the hard drive in a clear plastic shell, along with some mounting screws. The drive ...
...the lack of! Whatever technology Samsung has used, it works. The drive is quiet, even when copying large files, and when my old Seagate gets going the sudden difference in noise is amazing! 9/10 for noise. Speed In overall use, I found the drive to be noticeably faster, which I was really surprised about. After all, surely it's only a hard drive? However, games loaded faster, which was especially useful in multiplayer games as it meant I got ...
 prosser13 24.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Samsung SpinPoint F1 Desktop Class HD252HJ 250 GB
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How lucky am i
Advantages: Delivers up to 250 hours of storage, Fast and reliable!
Disadvantages: There isnt none...
...Second) I found the Seagate 160GB DB35 Series lying around so I thought ok time for an upgrade, when i had installed the drive into the DVR machine and removed the original I had noticed the performance of the DVR software had improved 75% more responsive, Then I found that the frame rate on the monitor had also improved its now at “15FPS” which is excellent! Its only a few hours later when I look up the model of the HD that its dedicated to DVR ...
sdchilderley 06.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Seagate DB35 Series 7200.3 ST3160215ACE 160 GB
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ASUS P5Q SE - motherboard - ATX - iP45
ATX - LGA775 Socket - None - Sound card - Network adapter - compatible with:Core 2 Duo, Celeron 400 sequence, Core 2 Quad, Celeron Dual Core, Pentium Dual Core, Core 2 Extreme
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