On Tuesday 18 May 2010 23:20:49 trotter wrote:
> At 20:12 18/05/2010, you wrote:
> > > My laptop hardrive is faulty, does anyone have a spare/old one I can
> > > have/buy
> >
> >Second-hand HDDs are usually a bad investment - they have a limited
> >lifespan, so if someone else has taken one out of service, it's probably
> >used up quite a bit of that life...
> >
> >A brand-spankers SATA laptop drive can be had for about £30. I simply
> >wouldn't bother looking for a used drive.
> >
> >Vic.
> >
> >p.s. I've replaced two SATA HDDs this last weekend. Neither was over 2
> >years old. I have a suspicion they don't last like they used to...
>
> In the desktop arena with 3.5" the experience of my last 2 drives would
> bare out your thinking. The western digital blue 640GB has 2 error sectors
> reallocated as soon as i installed it. The 1.5TB Seagate has had 3 sectors
> go bad after a few weeks.
>
> Its looking like higher capacity drives are more error prone at the mo on
> my very limited sample. All the previous Samsung 750GB, 500, 400 have
> no sector reallocation after up to 2 years.
>
>
> Martin N
>
> Running MorphOS v2.4 on Mac Mini, Moderator of
> MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
>
That's not entirely surprising. The more you try to pack onto a disk, the more
chance that a minor error will creep in. As for laptop hard-drives, I'm amazed
at the amount of abuse they'll handle, but how about a solid-state drive?
They're not cheap, but they're faster and more robust. E-buyer usually have
some. The Laptop harddrive you have will be a standard 2.5" SATA model, so
it's easily replaced.
Tim B.
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