My Main PC Hard Disk Drive is dead. Blah!


Which one is WD I get, Caviar Black or Caviar Blue?

Maybe, you might need a hard disk adapter to see if your computer able to transfer them into a new hard disk if lucky as last resort. Here is the link: NewerTech USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter .


Another suggestion, look up on search engine for "recovery hard disk software" and "recovery dead hard disk service".

Thanks, man. I look up your link, I hope I find something on old HDD.:lol:

Agreed 100%

@Josh B - mate, you will need to get an external hard drive for your own sake, when you buy a new internal hard drive, get an external one as well. This is for your back up purposes. It is highly recommended you only store important documents and espeically photos into your external hard drive than your internal. This prevents from losing - it is a more less likely of a risk.

I know, I know, I wished I got external HDD before that damn happen. :mad: :)

Last question, Do I must to buy Windows 7? My Windows XP CD is hmm.. old. :ty:
 
Which one is WD I get, Caviar Black or Caviar Blue?



Thanks, man. I look up your link, I hope I find something on old HDD.:lol:



I know, I know, I wished I got external HDD before that damn happen. :mad: :)

Last question, Do I must to buy Windows 7? My Windows XP CD is hmm.. old. :ty:
It is time for you to upgrade to Windows 7 after all. Since Windows XP is out-dated.

Doesn't matter what kind of WD, just it is good brand for these external hard drive.
 
It is time for you to upgrade to Windows 7 after all. Since Windows XP is out-dated.

Doesn't matter what kind of WD, just it is good brand for these external hard drive.


Umm, I wonder Window 7 Ultimate overkill than Home edition..
 
Umm, I wonder Window 7 Ultimate overkill than Home edition..
It doesn't make any difference really.
I am on Windows 7 Enterprise at work.

At home, I run home edition based Windows 7 - only that the professional and ulitmate level has little features added as an bonus which the home edition doesn't have - for i.e advanced networking for example.
 
I already order Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB from Newegg in 5 mins ago. :D That's my first time to own 500+GB or above. :)
 
Cool. Hard drives are getting big and the prices are not going way up. I used 80GB drives for a while, but my current computer has a 500GB hard drive and another internal hard drive that I forget its size.
 
Cool. Hard drives are getting big and the prices are not going way up. I used 80GB drives for a while, but my current computer has a 500GB hard drive and another internal hard drive that I forget its size.
my laptop has 640GB and still got plenty left plus it runs two operating systems. :mrgreen:
 
160.04 GB (160,041,885,696 bytes)
FUJITSU MHZ2160BH G1

Got that from the system profile on Mac OS X. No idea if Fujitsu is good. It's OEM HDD that came with the Mac Mini 2009.
 

Yes, that what I have at home, using Raid 1. On my previous desktop while back, I have Raid 1 on it and one day one HD died, but my system still running without any interuption. So I brought another one and pop it back in.. and the secondary drive start to re-mirror to the new drive.
 
Yes, that what I have at home, using Raid 1. On my previous desktop while back, I have Raid 1 on it and one day one HD died, but my system still running without any interuption. So I brought another one and pop it back in.. and the secondary drive start to re-mirror to the new drive.

Yep! Just wonder how you know when one hdd failed? That's all I knew it will sound as beep beep beep. Send the alert message to your computer or alert your email?

My father's business server's two SCSI HDDS failed in same time which almost 15 years and lucky he used RAID 5 and he dont lost anything database of 15 years. That's all he was heard beep alert and he was not sure which three hdds were failed so he had to test each hdd but no pointed for him since SCSI HDDs are outdate and very expensive. So I built another server for SATA HDD which cheaper, low watts, and speed up than old server.
 
Yep! Just wonder how you know when one hdd failed? That's all I knew it will sound as beep beep beep. Send the alert message to your computer or alert your email?

My father's business server's two SCSI HDDS failed in same time which almost 15 years and lucky he used RAID 5 and he dont lost anything database of 15 years. That's all he was heard beep alert and he was not sure which three hdds were failed so he had to test each hdd but no pointed for him since SCSI HDDs are outdate and very expensive. So I built another server for SATA HDD which cheaper, low watts, and speed up than old server.

If you have RAID manager or RAID application, it will notify you that Disk 0 or Disk 1 failed, or usually the hard drive light will have a slow flash which represent this HD failed. Then I click "OK" and I just keep on working. Then later went to the store brought a new one.

Here, some use Raid 5 some use RAID 50, and Virtual Array Drives (with 10GBE). Now we are thinking about getting 1.5 PB drives (it's about $150,000)
 
If you have RAID manager or RAID application, it will notify you that Disk 0 or Disk 1 failed, or usually the hard drive light will have a slow flash which represent this HD failed. Then I click "OK" and I just keep on working. Then later went to the store brought a new one.

Here, some use Raid 5 some use RAID 50, and Virtual Array Drives (with 10GBE). Now we are thinking about getting 1.5 PB drives (it's about $150,000)

Yes, That's for server we can check as RAID manager or RAID app but I mean NAS
like Newegg.com - Western Digital WDH2NC20000N 2TB My Book World Edition II Dual-drive Network Storage

I don't see any software for OSX as RAID application or I missed something.
:dunno: I am thinking to use one for networking at home.
WD Support / Downloads / Network Storage / My Book World Edition II (white light)



PB? Wow, What's kind business you work for? That's okay if you don't want to answer my question.
 
Yes, That's for server we can check as RAID manager or RAID app but I mean NAS
like Newegg.com - Western Digital WDH2NC20000N 2TB My Book World Edition II Dual-drive Network Storage

I don't see any software for OSX as RAID application or I missed something.
:dunno: I am thinking to use one for networking at home.
WD Support / Downloads / Network Storage / My Book World Edition II (white light)



PB? Wow, What's kind business you work for? That's okay if you don't want to answer my question.

Yes, lot of NAS drive have web interface regarless what OS you are using. In that web interface, it will show the status of both drives. Or some company like Seagate have application that allow to diagnose or health check the raid drives.

That drive you are looking at have web interface.

The company I work for is KEYW Corporation KEYW Corporation : Home , We develope software and hardware for most of the military gov and police and even comercial. So, I'm a MIS (Management of Information Technology), responsible overseeing the whole network infractures, security and such.
 
Yes, lot of NAS drive have web interface regarless what OS you are using. In that web interface, it will show the status of both drives. Or some company like Seagate have application that allow to diagnose or health check the raid drives.

That drive you are looking at have web interface.

The company I work for is KEYW Corporation KEYW Corporation : Home , We develope software and hardware for most of the military gov and police and even comercial. So, I'm a MIS (Management of Information Technology), responsible overseeing the whole network infractures, security and such.

Just read in the web interface at the NAS? That's mean NAS don't send the alert message to email or computer? That's all I have to check NAS's web interface? I never had a NAS before. Thanks for the info.

MIS, cool bean! I used IT as networking specialist and I don't want deal with some customers who don't know how to commutation to Deaf thru write on the paper without the interpreter. :ugh: No, I can't speak or lip reading very well.

I never heard of KEYW before but lucky you got that job.
 
Just read in the web interface at the NAS? That's mean NAS don't send the alert message to email or computer? That's all I have to check NAS's web interface? I never had a NAS before. Thanks for the info.

MIS, cool bean! I used IT as networking specialist and I don't want deal with some customers who don't know how to commutation to Deaf thru write on the paper without the interpreter. :ugh: No, I can't speak or lip reading very well.

I never heard of KEYW before but lucky you got that job.

Yeah, I'm sure there is some sort of signal (light flashing) on the device or software application that come with the package. Not sure about WD NAS.

Yeah, before I work as ESD Inc., Embedded Systems Design Inc., then this company brought ESD and that is how we merged together. Been working with computer technology since 1978 (this is where I first learn BASIC at High School).
 
I finally got a new WD 640GB HDD but I didn't bought Windows 7 OS last time.

Before I buy W7, I have a question. What's difference between OEM and Retail of Windows 7 Home Edition, is it worth spend $80 more than OEM?
 
I finally got a new WD 640GB HDD but I didn't bought Windows 7 OS last time.

Before I buy W7, I have a question. What's difference between OEM and Retail of Windows 7 Home Edition, is it worth spend $80 more than OEM?

I use OEM for built a computer or upgrade/replace a hardware.

OEM and Retail are same OS. Just different for business.
 
I finally got a new WD 640GB HDD but I didn't bought Windows 7 OS last time.

Before I buy W7, I have a question. What's difference between OEM and Retail of Windows 7 Home Edition, is it worth spend $80 more than OEM?

simple.

OEM means a bare-minimum product. very cheap.
Retail means a complete package that includes manual, packaging, etc.

I buy everything OEM.
 
Back
Top