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Gouk
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I cant believe my maxtor is already giving a T.E.C and its new and my Western Digital is like 2 1/2 years old and still no T.E.C.
Atleast the T.E.C is a long way off
Atleast the T.E.C is a long way off
Originally posted by Zedric
Terrible Emergency Crash?
I have no idea.
Originally posted by stuy_b
Maybe you need some cooling in the future.. drives get hot. I've got a 80mm fan sat sucking air in over my two Maxtor D740X's.
Have you still got warranty.. take it back to shop & get replacement.. unless of course you've been thrashing it!!
Just a question. If you had so much problem with Maxtor, why buy them again? Try the Western Digital 120 GB with 8 MB cache instead. Beats 10000 RPM SCSI in some applications. I'm not kidding.Originally posted by Goku
I've already had it changed once The first Maxtor wrecked after 6 mths only and had a S.M.A.R.T failure.
This is my second one and so far its fine but only 300 Mb is left on it which is why I am getting a new 120 Gb Maxtah
Originally posted by Zedric
Just a question. If you had so much problem with Maxtor, why buy them again? Try the Western Digital 120 GB with 8 MB cache instead. Beats 10000 RPM SCSI in some applications. I'm not kidding.
be careful. western digital makes 120gb drives with only 2mb cache, as well (5400 & 7200 rpm). make sure you got the 'special edition' one with 8mb cache.Originally posted by Goku
I changed my order with Aria to the new 120Gb Western Digitals they got in stock
The harddisk is a slow device. If the disk can store some of the data it recently used (and is probable to be used again soon) in a faster memory (cache) the performance can be boosted severely. 8MB is better than 2 MB since you can store more data. However if you would get more, say 64 MB, the cache would be too big (too slow to search though for relevant data) and therefor less useful than a smaller cache.Originally posted by Goku
What does the Hard Drive cache do?
For now, yes.Originally posted by xsk8zerox
I think 8 megs is the biggest for ide
Umm, yes. The basic principals are the same. Cache is cache you know. The hdd cache is quite a lot faster of course.Originally posted by Goku
Ya mean it works the same as the Internet Explorer temp cache?