Home | Community | Message Board

KykeonAnalytics.com
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleKrishna
कृष्ण,LOL
 User Gallery

Registered: 05/08/03
Posts: 23,285
Loc: oakland
new 200 gb hd!
    #5061374 - 12/14/05 08:29 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

it took me a bit less than a year to fill my last 200gb external drive with music. i bet this one will take me a bit longer. but it's nice to get this (a christmas present to myself - my last one reached 99.5% about 2 weeks ago) and be able to download/copy music again :smile:


oh, and i got this harddrive


--------------------



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleOJK
Stranger
 User Gallery
Registered: 06/08/03
Posts: 10,629
Re: new 200 gb hd! [Re: Krishna]
    #5061390 - 12/14/05 08:36 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

damn man

you bought a maxtor?

:doh:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinecompman
Stranger
Registered: 07/20/04
Posts: 150
Last seen: 16 years, 5 months
Re: new 200 gb hd! [Re: OJK]
    #5061859 - 12/14/05 10:32 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

I recently bought a new 200gb as well, in about 2 and a half weeks I filled it completely...damn my addiction to trance/house live sets!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleKrishna
कृष्ण,LOL
 User Gallery

Registered: 05/08/03
Posts: 23,285
Loc: oakland
Re: new 200 gb hd! [Re: OJK]
    #5061914 - 12/14/05 10:48 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

have you had bad experience with them?

i've never had one, but didn't hear anything bad about them...

mind you i'll probably format it ext3 and run it solely on linux (well, 2 windows computers will be connected to it via samba, but with no write permissions)


--------------------



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinemikeyboy
Stranger

Registered: 03/13/05
Posts: 1,152
Loc: UK
Last seen: 14 years, 9 months
Re: new 200 gb hd! [Re: Krishna]
    #5062010 - 12/14/05 11:15 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

Ewe Maxtor

I've had a lot of experience with smaller size maxtors and a good couple didn't last long.

They're loud and clanky too

Get a nice Seagate Barracuda  :wink: :sun:


--------------------
LSD: Defrag for the brain

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineRandolph_Carter
НơĻ?ĢΉō

Registered: 06/13/00
Posts: 29,281
Loc: Shroomery B-list.
Last seen: 14 years, 2 days
Re: new 200 gb hd! [Re: mikeyboy]
    #5063554 - 12/14/05 05:46 PM (18 years, 5 months ago)

Both drives in my old computer are maxtor's, 8+ years old.
Both work just fine, altho one requires some attention every now and again, altho i'm pretty sure that's solely the OS at fault.


--------------------
"..all those molecules thrashing their kinky little tails, hot for destiny and the street."  Gibson


Nuke baby seals for Jesus!

(This has been a +1 production.)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleVvellum
Stranger

Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 10,920
Re: new 200 gb hd! [Re: Krishna]
    #5063613 - 12/14/05 06:01 PM (18 years, 5 months ago)

I have a maxtor with reiserfs that I use to hold all my music & video & havent had any trouble.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSeussA
Error: divide byzero

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 23,480
Loc: Caribbean
Last seen: 3 months, 8 days
Re: new 200 gb hd! [Re: Vvellum]
    #5065771 - 12/15/05 03:54 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

I have worked with a lot of hard drives over the last twenty years. I have seen drives from every manufacturer die at some point. The ones I have seen the most of die are Fujitsu drives. The ones I have seen the least of die are probably IBM drives. In my experience, both Maxtor and Seagate are in the middle somewhere. I have seen a lot of both die, but there are a lot of both out there. Avoid Fujitsu drives and back up your data...


--------------------
Just another spore in the wind.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleKrishna
कृष्ण,LOL
 User Gallery

Registered: 05/08/03
Posts: 23,285
Loc: oakland
Re: new 200 gb hd! [Re: Vvellum]
    #5066107 - 12/15/05 07:51 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

would you recommend reiserFS? from what i've read, they have switched development to reiser4, which doesn't work with the linux kernel yet. i've pretty much used ext3 and fat32 (vfat) on all my drives (ext3 on the drives that will only be locally plugged, fat32 on removable drives so i could technically plug them into a m$ machine) - however now i've got a permanent linux workstation setup at my house (before i only had my laptop, and my two roomates windows machines), so i could have the drive formatted ext3 and then samba mount it from windows. what are the benefits (that you've noticed) with reiserFS?


--------------------



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleOJK
Stranger
 User Gallery
Registered: 06/08/03
Posts: 10,629
Re: new 200 gb hd! [Re: Seuss]
    #5070261 - 12/16/05 06:51 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

maxtor drives come with a 1 year warranty

seagate barracudas come with a 5 year warranty

I take that as a sign that seagate have more faith in their own products

plus, the only drives I have ever had die within the warranty period are maxtors

obviously, there will be thousands of maxtor drives that are just fine, but if a drive dies three years after I buy it, I like to be able to get a replacement.

Edited by Odiumjunkie (12/18/05 09:58 AM)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Blu-Ray Beating HD-DVD in the Format War DiploidM 1,349 15 01/09/08 04:29 AM
by kotik
* Maxtor 120gig HD only reading as 33gig on my computer WHY? shroominsmurf 1,113 8 12/30/03 03:46 PM
by Lightningfractal
* HD failure with external HD? JunkFood 730 5 09/09/07 06:37 PM
by MycoThrill
* External HD? Robo 617 6 09/09/08 03:00 PM
by JT
* Looking for laptop service manual (Fujitsu Lifebook T730) YthanA 2,282 2 10/18/10 12:21 PM
by snoot
* Seagate and Maxtor have a green light for merge. automanM 421 0 02/15/06 03:55 AM
by automan
* 2nd Partition on my HD(VISTA) four20snakeman 927 8 06/26/07 03:33 PM
by four20snakeman
* HD-DVD Anti-copy Cryptosystem Cracked DiploidM 997 2 01/02/07 05:30 PM
by rod

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: trendal, automan, Northerner
743 topic views. 0 members, 0 guests and 1 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.018 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 14 queries.