I will be grabbing a couple of WDEZRX Greens before they finally disappear altogether. WD Greens are well established so I get suspicious when WD say the new "Blue" family drives will be the same, for one thing the Blue drives are now cheaper and I think their quality will suffer as a consequence.

OK, thank you so much.

HD Tune is showing a health warning on one of my drives a Samsung F1 320GB SATA II HD. The warning says there are 159 communication errors on the drive which may be caused by a faulty cable. I replaced the SATA data cable but still get the same warning. The drive is still under warranty with Samsung...

No I'm not using a RAID array, Drive D: is one of my storage drives. Thank you so much for a quick reply, it expains everything I need to know. I will just back-up the data from Drive D: whilst everything is still fiunctioning, thanks again.

Hello, I have 3 Samsung SATA II hard drives in my rig, one of them (Drive D:) is showing a "Caution" message when I run the CrystalDiskInfo tool. This caution message relates to "Reallocated Sectors Count". If I click on the yellow "Caution" Button I get a pop-up window below the main window saying ...

A tower cooler with a 92mm Fan perhaps. http://www.xigmatek.com/product/air-hdtsd964.php You need to buy a S1366 retention kit separately. http://www.xigmatek.com/product/accessory-crossbow-ack-i5363.php Test: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article818-page1.html A similar one with S1366 retention in...

I've been googling all the usual suspects, (e-tailers in the UK) and can't find a single one that has the Samsung HD322HJ.

Ok I think I will look for 160GB or 200GB Samsung, their prices are almost identical, thanks for advice.

I just replaced a 6 year old Maxtor DiamondMax-9 80GB PATA HD. It gave me excellent service despite hundreds of formats and dropping it more than a few times, it ran constantly @ 29c temp, and was virtually silent because you could set "quiet mode operation" for this drive. So now I replace the old ...