hard drives

  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Seagate aiming to be a data storage leader in SA

    Seagate aiming to be a data storage leader in SA American data storage firm Seagate aims to be the market leader in supplying memory to South Africa's booming data centre industry, expected to be valued at R16.15 billion by 2031. The company is focusing on providing HDD technologies to boost...
  3. RedViking

    Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet

    https://www.guru3d.com/story/synology-reverses-policy-banning-thirdparty-hdds-after-nas-sales-plummet/ Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Most reliable hard drives of 2022

    Most reliable hard drives of 2022 Backblaze has released its hard drive performance statistics for 2022, revealing the most reliable drives under its management during the past year. The company regularly analyses tens of thousands of boot and data drives that it uses to provide backup and...
  5. J

    The most reliable hard drives in the world

    The most reliable hard drives in the world Cloud backup solutions provider Backblaze has released its hard drive reliability statistics for the third quarter of 2018. Backblaze compared hard drives used in its operations – from Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, and HGST – for the report.
  6. mercurial

    Sonic and ultrasonic attacks damage hard drives and crash OSes

    Sonic and ultrasonic attacks damage hard drives and crash OSes
  7. A

    Purchasing 2 x 1TB instead of a 2TB External Hard Drive

    Hi.. A colleague at work has advised that because external hard drives larger than 1TB are still not perfected & are unstable, it is better to purchase 2 x 1TB Hard Drives instead of a single 2TB Hard Drive. Has anyone experienced this? A 2TB is almost always cheaper than buying 2 x...
  8. Kevin Lancaster

    Best and worst hard drives revealed

    Best and worst hard drives revealed Backblaze, an online backup provider, has published its Hard Drive Stats for 2016 report. The report details the reliability of different hard drive brands and models.
  9. B

    Multiple Hard Drive Enclosure

    Hi Guys, I need some help :) I have about 6 - 8 3.5" ext hdd (1.5TB - 2TB) which are already in individual enclosures I was wondering if there is a enclosure that can accommodate more than one ext hdd Having to connect and disconnect different drives with different power cables is bothersome...
    • Bull1012
    • Thread
    • external drives external hard drives hard drive enclosure hard drives hp n54l microtower server
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: PC Hardware and Gadgets
  10. Ahmadrm9

    Western Digital Warranty ?

    hi does anyone know where i can do an RMA on my Western Digital Hard drive in South Africa
    • Ahmadrm9
    • Thread
    • hard drive failure hard drives
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Gaming
  11. LazyLion

    HP Proliant Server DL360 G3 - replace server drives.

    We had a burglary recently, and the thieves stole the two hard drives out of our server. They were 80 Gb drives in RAID. How can I go about buying replacement drives for this server? Where do I go? Who can sell me these... new or second hand? Heeeelllpppp!
  12. NomNom

    5900RPM vs 7200RPM

    So I'm in the market for some storage hard drives, so backup my media and/or lanning. Now I want to know does the RPM really matter? Cause as far as I can make out it only matters when the drive is used for gaming/programs. Also has anyone found a 2TB 7200 being sold anywhere? Preferably...
  13. S

    Need help repairing hard drive - bad sectors.

    Hi all A colleague of mine has a 100GB portable Lacie drive. He's been having some hassles with it and yesterday performed a standard windows quick format. I then tried loading some data for him but after a while the copy failed. It appears there are some bad sectors on the drive. Can...
  14. P

    Solid State Drive SSD Info Needed

    Hey There Who can tell me more on SSD's, is it really that much faster, what is required to make use of it's capabilities, where can i get a good price, and how is your typical SSD setup. I currently have a quad core, with 250gts graphix card and 8gb ram... however, my windows experience...
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    Esquire Month End Special

    Hi All As we reaching month-end we doing some really good deals on Motherboards, Processors, Hard drives and memory for this week. Take advantage of these pricing as Memory, Processors and Hard drives have already gone up since last week and will continue to rise again in the next few...
  16. D

    external hard drive prob...not reading

    ok so i went to my friends house cos i needed to give him something then i put in the external HDD and it started showing install things at the bottom of the screen...then all of a sudden the pc freezes. hard reboot and plug it in again and shows an icon (safely remove) at the bottom and nothing...
  17. medicnick83

    Samsung HDD's!

    Have you guys seen, Samsung are starting to sell hard drives. Prices are okay, but the catch is, they only have 1 year warranties! :( 1TB is about R1000 incl but I'm steering clear of these drives for a while.
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    Hard Drives and Processors special

    Hi All Here is the latest pricing on Hard Drives and Processors which we doing as a Online and Phone in special until 19th February 2009 at all the branches-Please note all our pricing is Exclusive of Vat. Click on the link below as some items may not be available in your region...
  19. E

    Esquire MB, memory, hard drive specials

    Hi all Firstly Thank you to all those MYBB user that are supporting us , we have already invoiced over 40 invoices to MYBB users since Monday Here is the today’s specials on motherboards, hard drives and memory. click on the link below to view these specials and take advantage of the...
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    Esquire Multimedia and Scanner specials

    Hi There It is with great pleasure that we announce the we are now a paying subscriber to the MyBB forum on the Hardware & Software Dealers – Beta section We have opened up our channel to all MyBB users so that you can purchase directly from us using the account #MYB001 at all our...
  21. LazyLion

    SATA Hard drive running in PIO Mode

    I have four 750 GB SATA drives. The fourth one (Secondary IDE channel, device 1) is running in PIO mode instead of DMA, so transfers are really slow. It wasn't always this way. I think it somehow got switched when I installed DC++ and shared/hashed the entire drive. When I boot into...
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