Suitable new HDD [Archive]

tonys

30-05-2009, 03:18 PM

Any suggestions as to make/model of a suitable HDD to replace my dead one?
Bought a Western Digital Caviar Blue 250Gb one this morning, then, luckily before I opened the packaging, had a vague memory of reading of problems, did a search and found several threads relating to problems with these drives. But decent size IDE drives seem to be like hens teeth here in NZ!
Anyone had positive results with a SATA/IDE adapter?

petestrash

31-05-2009, 04:42 AM

I have only ever seen one IDE-Sata adaptor that worked, but that was years ago. I have tried dozens since, but have not found another. Samsung drives have worked fine for me, as have Seagates (if you only use a single drive).

Peter.

tonys

02-06-2009, 10:07 AM

This looks to be a really good option:
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/products/cinemastar/P7K500/

Any experience/comments?

petestrash

02-06-2009, 03:10 PM

I have not used Hitachi's since the Deathstar problems a few years ago.

Their new drives are hopefully better.

Peter.

tonys

02-06-2009, 04:36 PM

deahstar problems? did a quick search but nothing came up...

petestrash

02-06-2009, 04:44 PM

I think may you have made a typo when searching.

Try this Google (http://www.google.com.au/search?q=hitachi+deathstar) search for "Hitachi Deathstar".

There are over 20,000 hits.

Peter.

tonys

02-06-2009, 04:48 PM

I only searched within the Oztivo forums!