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Hello, I have a $50 amazon coupon and looking for increasing my storage capacity. Should I go for a seagate 3TB or WD 3TB? Amazon.com: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 3 TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive STAC3000102: Electronics - $130 Amazon.com: Western Digital My Book Essential 3 TB USB 3.0/2.0...

Hello Just ran a chkdsk and found to have 12kb bad sectors What is the procedure to RMA from Bangalore Do they return a refurbished hdd or a new one? Also how much time they take to replace Can somebody send me important numbers phone numbers to call in case they take time to replace?

thanks for your reply. can I know why a HDD may go bad when connected to power always? Also is there an enclosure available where I can put all my disks (5 disks) and configure RAID?

Hello, I am looking for a 2TB disk to store critical data. I am seeing that both seagate and WD have issues and in general both are not reliable. My friend lost 1.5 TB of data when is WD15EADS went bad.

Hello, my WD15EARS shows reallocated sector count as 1 which was earlier zero. Does this mean that slowly this disk may go off? I have vital data on it. mandar

Hi all, When i connect only two disks all disks could be detected correctly. SO at present I have connected only 160GB HDD to my PC. Is this the issue with SMPS? I am not sure how could it be because my UPS power meter shows max power drawn to be not more than 90W. I think the powersafe...

Hello, I have 4 hard disks (640G, 500G, 160G 1TB) They are shown correctly in bios and also when windows boots After some time I notice that except the 160G disk and its two volumes nothing else is seen in disk manager and windows explorer and the HDD light on the case is continously red. My...

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Hello, My motherboard does not have an eSata port. I heard that there are PCI-Express to eSata cards available. Which one would be a good buy - for consistent performance, and stability. Some cards start giving issues after some months. and data may get corrupted. Please let me know if it...

Hello, I am looking for a eSata RAID enclosure where I can put my disks. For example Newegg.com - AMS DS-2350S Aluminum Black eSATA 5 bay SATA Enclosure - External Enclosures Newegg.com - Rosewill RSV-S4-X 4 Bay SATA to eSATA (Port Multiplier) JBOD / RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5 Enclosure - Server...

Hello, Any feedback on transcend with fan casing? and where can I buy this in bangalore? Rgds, Amazon.com: Transcend StoreJet TS0GSJ35U 3.5-Inch SATA Aluminum Housing: Electronics

After I shut down my PC and start the time shown is still old Does this mean that I need to change the battery of my motherboard? My motherboard is Gigabyte 945GMS2 which is 3 years old Where can I get this battery in Bangalore

Hello, I am planning to buy the transcend storejet 35u external drive enclosure. Please let me know if u have used this enclosure. Queries 1. Will it support 2TB SATA disks 2. any issues with build quality 3. does the fan fail more often? thanks. regards.

Hello all, Will this hard disk enclosure support Western Digital 2TB drives? I want to fit in WD20EADS into this will that be detected? Rgds

Hello, I have windows vista and a WD 1tb external hard disk. The hdd is being detected through USB and firewire but not through esata cable. I have an sata to esata bracket as my motherboard does not have a built in esata port. What could be the problem here do i need to download any drivers?