ayaa i hate my computer
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Hard drives are always luck of the draw thing, Ive had some bad luck with many brands. IF your data is important run a RAID array. Heat Kills hard drives. Click of death is always bad. Get your important data off and start with a new good drive.
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Originally Posted by laoba
frys is junk but you can get great deals.
try looking at www.newegg.com or www.mwave.com (for local pickup...)
try looking at www.newegg.com or www.mwave.com (for local pickup...)
only reason why i bought the hdd from fry's cuz it was cheap as heck at the time. it was on sale for like $70 haha
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Originally Posted by slowguy626
i bought my hitachi 200gig hdd from fry's. been well over a year now and it hasn't caused me any trouble.
i had 3 friend crash those..
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Originally Posted by laoba
all my "clicks of death" were major head crashes. i couldnt recover crap from it. 
it happen to me too many times.
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Your problem is that you're buying Western Digital. My friend had two 250gb hds and he's RMAed them about three times for each drive and finally just gave up because they kept breaking on him. Maxtors tend to break eventually, but I've got good use out of them. I usually steer toward IBM, Seagate, or Hitachi I have no complaints about them thus far...
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i have no faith in IBM i have had friend who use them and crash them easily..
hatachi owns the IBM HDD department now.. so they are the same thing..
the 250gb western digital is definately known to have problem
i also rma those twice..
seagate.. i dunno.. is very questionable..i only heard good things in the past
hatachi owns the IBM HDD department now.. so they are the same thing..
the 250gb western digital is definately known to have problem
i also rma those twice..
seagate.. i dunno.. is very questionable..i only heard good things in the past
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Originally Posted by kym
OMG, every thing at Fry's has been purchased, opened and returned at least 5 times.
see u keep the new one and then u put the old one in there, complain about it not workin and thne u get ur money back =D