• baking an HDD
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-snip- You guys didn't get the point.
[QUOTE=MIPS;29712475]My honorary opinion on Samsung and Western Digital through past reviews and personal experience. [url=http://www.redhill.net.au/d/d-a.html]source[/url] [url=http://www.redhill.net.au/d/d-b.html]source[/url][/QUOTE] That's nice and all, but I'm buying drives from the 21'st century, so that's BS to me.
[QUOTE=MIPS;29712475]My honorary opinion on Samsung and Western Digital through past reviews and personal experience. [url=http://www.redhill.net.au/d/d-a.html]source[/url] [url=http://www.redhill.net.au/d/d-b.html]source[/url][/QUOTE] Those articles talk about 100 mb drives Pretty sure if they got bad reviews they've had the time to fix the problems. Two 80 Gb Western Digital SATA drives, not a problem since i bought them.
[QUOTE=MIPS;29712475]My honorary opinion on Samsung and Western Digital through past reviews and personal experience.[/QUOTE] Basing hard drive preferences on 20 year old drives is dumb. That'd be like saying modern Bentley engines suck because they made rotary engines in 1918 that were notoriously unreliable due to the technological limitations of the time. Anyway, reflowing a drive controller is pointless since most everything is SMD or PLCC. The only troublesome mounting technology is BGA, and even if the controller used BGA chips, they don't get hot enough to cause cracking.
wipe the drive to only zeros. it probably has too many ones and they can weigh down the platters causing them to spin at 7199 RPM causing problems
oh god you just gotta love facepunch
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