I'm thinking I was a bit hasty picking up my first SSD a couple of months ago. It's still in the box unused but no chance of returning it after so long. I only need 120/128 for my boot drive so can live with the 520 pricing.
And have to say it was a little upsetting the sensible in me having to...
No takers yet then?
Have 4 weeks left on warranty, so need to make a decision some time soon.
Recently been playing around swapping PCB's to get a firmware upgrade done. My experience suggested that you do, at least in some situations, have to solder in one of the chips from the old board...
RMA address is Europe. Haven't got round to sending any back yet but think it's Holland. Could even be a UK address, I know they have a data recovery centre here. I'll find out soon enough anyway.
I've kept proper hard drive backups of anything important ever since this happened. That's why I have to have so many bloody drives. Only the computer industry can get away with selling products that don't do what they're supposed to do ie. store our data safely.
Optical storage would be...
Take a look at the real world workload tests. You'll find the same in any comparison review you choose to look at. I'm not saying they're slow, they're just poor compared to the fast stuff
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4863/the-samsung-ssd-830-review
I'd say they're strictly for the tech...
It's a well documented working fix, even over on the Seagate forums. Some people have had no option other than to use this. I would have used it myself as a last resort.
LOL Yes it occurred to me! Just doing a straight swap of the boards didn't work. I think because of the individual...
It's all down to what software you install, so in your mums case 60GB will be just fine.
Just checked mine and I'm at 67GB and thats with Users directory on D:\ drive. AppData from Users alone would add another 9GB.
Also, as it's for your mum, I'd steer clear of any performance SSD's. I...
Update
I have 2 items of news:
1) Fixed the drive myself early hours of this morning. I occurred to me that maybe you could stick the PCB on a working drive to update the firmware. One of the drives I have an RMA code for is an identical drive. Same label info (date code was one month out)...
mmm... I don't think anyone would disagree that a clicking drive is a knackered drive, but the hard drive industry have managed to convince an awful lot of people that reallocated sectors are totally OK. It'd be interesting to see this challenged in the European courts.
Reminds me of the TV...
Yes, I know about the generic codes. I have to use one for my bricked drive. Their customer service rep told me I was free to send the drives back using one of these codes but warned me they would just run seatools on the drives and send back any that passed, which they all do.
Why did you use...
Same here. Have just purchased a Barracuda XT that is now holding the data from two of the drives I have an error code for.
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1207&ID=1507
PSU is Thermaltake Toughpower Cable Management 700W, about 18 months old. Voltages in BIOS are as they should...
UK data recovery services seem to be much more expensive than US (what isn't...) but I haven't had any recent quotes so maybe worth phoning round again.
All my personal data going back to my very first PC about 20 years ago. The photos are the most important to me.
The firmware update is for...
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