glut_func Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 ^when the chito miranda scandal broke out, word is sya daw talaga nagkalat nun - nagkainuman tapos pinakita "daw" nya sa iba so natural may nagka-interes na kalikutin ang laptop nya or phone nya. Tsismis lang to pero either way, he got careless. back to topic, may mga DIY method to recover lost files sa HDD na bad sector, may na-research ako dati (circa 2000) online that says dapat daw ilagay sa ziplock yung hdd and put in the freezer for about an hour (wag lang lalampas sa 2 hrs kasi tatagos yung ice at mag moist sa loob ng bag), this will cause the plates to contract yata. After that, plug the HDD back in habang malamig pa habang di pa bumabalik sa dating condition yung plates. Medyo far-fetched kasi testimonials show that it did worked for some and since medyo desperado na din ako nun to recover my school work files so i tried and somehow it did worked, hindi ko man nahugot lahat ng files ko but I got what i needed. Just not sure kung gagana pa yung ganung method sa modern HDD now. Quote Link to comment
tonybond2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Pwede magkaroon ng external ssd? Quote Link to comment
Kurtsky Keigee Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 ^my thoughts too, western parin for me. Quote Link to comment
xxnomatchxx Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I have the old seagate 1TB external HDD where you still need to plug it.. It's been with me for more than 5 years, however one day it just didnt work, it was just blinking and couldnt be detected by the any computer I plug it to.. seagate told me they cannot do anything because the life span of an external HDD is 5 years.. Quote Link to comment
private_1st Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 meron na po bang 3TB na USB powered lang? or wala pa din po? wala pa Quote Link to comment
Black Cobra Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 meron na po bang 3TB na USB powered lang? or wala pa din po? i think the latest is still 1TB Quote Link to comment
remoteworld Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 another seagate external drive went bonkers after only 3 months using it. hmp! Quote Link to comment
feeder999 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 WDC. I already have 6TB Quote Link to comment
Kurtsky Keigee Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Used WD before cheaper than seagate Quote Link to comment
KeepCalm Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I've stopped using external hard drives. What I do is use internal hard drives as external hard drives. If you have a hard drive that has the operating system your other extra (secondary drives) function as mere usb drives that are just harder to remove. They don't come with the convenience of being easy to move or mount, but if all you're using them for is file back-up, they're the best way to go. Now if you want a reliable external hard drive go with solid state ones, their only real problems are cost and that there's a limited number of times you can write and read over them. But they are far less likely to break because of far fewer moving parts, if you can claim that they have any real moving parts for practical purposes. Quote Link to comment
Kurtsky Keigee Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 How long do your western and seagate drives last for normal copy pasting of files for backup? Quote Link to comment
KeepCalm Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 (edited) They haven't failed me since I bought them - so I can't give you a firm date. 2 years give or take for the WDC, the Seagate has been going strong for 1 year. Before I buy a hard drive I usually check out newegg.com for user reviews. If an item has a reasonable amount of reviewers and it's at least a 4 out of 5 stars it should be reliable. I bought a WDC 1tb blue and a 1tb Seagate that both had 4 out of 5 stars and decent reviews. Remember, all hard drives fail. This is a matter of when, not if, the only way to save your files is to have multiple back-ups. I have stuff on my internal hard drive and then copies of my more important ones on a 300gb external hard drive and then my most important files have backups on dual layer DVDs. Edited June 10, 2015 by KeepCalm Quote Link to comment
D King Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 WD External HDD already failed me 2 times. trying Seagate for now. But I hope External SSD becomes more cheaper because they are a lot more faster and reliable because they don't have moving part. Quote Link to comment
6666 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 How are samsung portable HDDs? I recently bought a 2TB from Greenhills and, so far so good. Quote Link to comment
Bournique Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Western digital > seagate Quote Link to comment
magnus_eric Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 have a WD HDD since 2011...still working Quote Link to comment
Superunknown Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I have better experiences with seagate, and rma is much easier Quote Link to comment
mr_kindred23 Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I did a scan sanitizer on my hp laptop....the thing is after 30% i just abort the operation...honestly i was damn impatient to finish the entire clean up, coz it took 30% for 4hrs....can't wait to finished it entirely and migth finished it for entire 10 hrs? , had an errand tomorrow thats why I abort the operation, did try to install win7 and it did install....now my question is.... do aborting scan sanitizer will damaged the hard disk/drive in the future? although successful naman pag-install ko.. still thus aborting the operation might damaged the hard disk? 500GB of harddisk Quote Link to comment
ades14 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Alam ko max ng usb powered ata is 2tb ng wd. Quote Link to comment
clockw3rk Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 ask lang guys pano ma recover RAW external hdd? Na try q na testdisk, easeus, icare, ubuntu but to no avil. Salamat Quote Link to comment
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