hard drive

  1. jes

    Best value for money hard drive capacity

    Best value for money hard drive capacity Which hard drive capacity offers the most storage space for your money?
  2. IanM

    Western Digital HDD deals

    Hey guys! Anyone know of deals on one of the following HDD? Im looking for a 2.5", in 250gb or 320gb. WD Scorpio Series BEVS/BEAS - WD Scorpio Blue Series BEVS/BEVT/BPVT - WD Scorpio Black Series BEKT/BJKT - WD VelociRaptor Series - WD AV-25 Series BUDT The best one i came across is this...
  3. NeonNinja

    Where would I find the cheapest portable hard drive?

    Either 500GB or 1TB. Walk-in store?
  4. G

    Crazy Hard Drive Problem :

    Hi guys. My external is broke. Ok not physically, but the other day whilst copying some files, i needed to cancel. The cancellation process continued for hours on a 500mb file. I figured something was wrong and just pulled out the external. Now when I plug into any PC it asks me to...
  5. L

    Looking for hard drive

    Morning guys, I am looking for 40g or 80g hard drives, and IDE dvd writers, 20 of each. Anyone who can help?
  6. jes

    Hard drive pricing still high in South Africa

    Hard drive pricing still high in South Africa The word from local distributors is that hard drive pricing will remain high for the time being
  7. LazyLion

    HDD Pricewatch: Three Months Into the Thai Floods

    The Article continues with the Graphs shown.... Click to read more... http://www.techspot.com/guides/494-hard-drive-pricewatch-thai-floods/
  8. Rouxenator

    Hard drive supply shortage and price hikes = hoax

    Every since the whole Thailand flood issue hard drive prices have gone up and is some cases you now pay more than double what you paid for a few months ago. I am aware that some of the production facilities have been flooded but can the impact really be that big? I mean, it must be massive...
  9. R

    Using Virtual PC to store/backup data

    I thought of creating a Virtual Hard Disk in Virtual PC and then copying files to that, saving state ect. Moving the Virtual Hard Disk to DVD or other backup media. The reason for this is that a virtual hard drive size of say 80GB is compressed to about 20GB on the local PC and it is a fixed...
  10. wrinklyo

    Wow! 40MB hardrive - whoop whoop

    :D Was stripping some old written off PCs today and found a 40MB hard drive, which I remember installing years ago. At the time I was so excited about this massive amount of storage! Now my digital camera will fill it up with only 10 photos! It's mind boggling how fast things have changed. :)...
  11. R

    Verbatim 2TB External Hard Drive Benchmark

    Hi Guys, Got this hard drive yesterday from Makro: http://www.makro.co.za/p/31945/verbatim-2tb-external-hard-drive/ It feels very slow so I am contemplating on returning it. Windows says its gonna take 14 hours to do 250GB backup. Did a benchmark test under Ubuntu and it gave me...
  12. G

    Need second hand hard drives, no need for it to work.

    I have seagate barracuda 7200.9 st3802110A 80gb and need to recover data for a customer. Can any one help please. The old have a few books she want to retrieve that took her years to write
  13. F

    Laptop HDD upgrade

    I got myself a laptop 6 months ago. It's an HP i7 with 6GB of ram, 64-bit OS, ATI Graphics and 1tb HDD. Now that's a pretty good laptop by any standards, but I have had such issues with it. I can barely watch an HD video on it without it getting severely stuck or stuttering. Do you guys think...
  14. S

    Hard drive reliability study

    Hard drive reliability People often ask for recommendations when buying a new HDD. Here's an interesting article stemming from a data recovery company in Russia detailing their experiences. Their findings are interesting and in line with my experience so I think we can apply it, to a certain...
  15. jes

    SA hard drive pricing comparison

    SA hard drive pricing comparison By comparing the price per gigabyte of various 3.5” internal desktop SATA hard drives, we try to establish where you would get the most storage for your Rand
  16. M

    SATA Harddrive Power Question

    I need to up my storage space, and am planning on buying a 2TB SATA II drive. I opened up my case and noticed that I have no more SATA power cables left, only a bunch of molex. I see there are lots of cheaply available molex to SATA convertors (eg), but I've been told that these can lead to...
  17. jes

    XD5 and XG1 external hard drive range launched in SA

    XD5 and XG1 external hard drive range launched in SA LG Electronics announced the South African availability and pricing of their XD5 and XG1 external hard drives
  18. jes

    3 terabyte external hard drive available in South Africa

    3 terabyte external hard drive available in South Africa Rectron launches the Seagate GoFlex 3.0 TB external hard drive in South Africa
  19. D

    Strange new HDD behaviour :(

    well i have been doing lots of head scratching and hair pulling. Bought a new 1.5tb drive for my pc a month ago. and the dam thing intermittently seems to power down and power back up, you literally hear it klunk off and on. I've checked the power settings in the bios and in windows 7 and...
  20. S

    new HDD I bought has windows XP on it?Not so new is it!?!

    I am completely shocked.... A client of mine wants to get a new Desktop PC so I bought all the stuff from a importer called PC International and put it all together when I got it today,After building the PC I plugged in all the cables screen,mouse and keyboard and pressed the power button on...
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