a new harddisk

[zombie]

Maxtor rocks, but servicing it might be a problem in India. Seagate/Samsung come next. But Samsung has a wider service network compared to Seagate. So choice is yours. Generally HD dont hang up on you so easily, but in case they do its vital that you get service if not at your doorstep then in your neighborhood. Good option is regularly backing up your data using DVDRW so that you dont pull your hair in case HD goes KABOOM!!!

 

[AlienTech]

Worldwide hard drive shipments during the second quarter 89.7 million Units.

Word wide market share..

1.Seagate at 30.5 percent of global hard drive shipments.

2.Western Digital at 17.6 percent.

3.Maxtor at 13.5 percent.

4.Hitachi Global Storage Technologies/IBM at 15.5 percent.

5.Toshiba at 7.7 percent.

6.Samsung Electronics at 6.9 percent.

7.Fujitsu at 6.7 percent.

according to iSuppli.

As you can see, crap sells.... as long as it is cheap...

 

[magnet]

i want to ask does bad sector do appear in sata disc also????or it does provide resistance to it

 

[siriusb]

AFAIK, sata specifications don't include bad-sector-resistance, which, of course, is not possible.

 

[rk]

somebody told me 160gb cost only Rs 300/400 more than 120gb hdds, is it true
and does samsung have 160gb [non sata] disks because idon't want seagate,
and what will be its cost?

 

[zombie]

Yes. The difference is only 400 bucks. No idea about PATA Samsung 160GB. But it must be available since Seagate has something similar on offer. Samsung cant afford to lose business since this segment is quite lucrative.

Just checked Samsung web site. They do offer 160 GB. Official price 4,500. But it would be cheaper in the market.

Check this link. *www.samsung.com/in/products/harddiskdrives/7200rpm/index.asp

 

[AlienTech]

Yes I posted a review on the samsung 160 PATA and seagate 160SATA since I have em both... Do a search I suppose... I paid like 4800 but that was 3 months ago.

 

[manmay]

guys one ques...

practically what are the data transfer rates of the sata and pata disks of same capacity...