Generally, everything has a lifespan. Even a computer hard drive has it. Here is a report said, it is three to five years. Generally speaking, you can rely on your hard drive for three to five years on average. A compelling study that proved this statistic comes from the onlineContinue Reading
I have NAS system for many years. If you read my blog long enough, you will know the first NAS I was using is D-Link DNS-323 from 2009. Two bay network storage system. I used two hard drives. Western Digital WD15EADS Caviar Green 1.5TB. Bought at the same time, 2009.Continue Reading
The PC I am using right now is more than six years. I checked my blog and found the post of flash the bios in Feb 2013. I did a search in my Gmail. Wow, I found the receipt which I made the order on NCIX. NCIX has closed forContinue Reading
When I travel to Shanghai, I ordered a Western Digital Purple Disk. 4TB SATA6Gb / s 64M Monitoring Hard Drive (WD40EJRX). I paid RMB705, including free shipping. Now the price is dropped to RMB659. The similar hard disk on newegg.ca is about CA$238. Open the box. It is a plasticContinue Reading
It is a WD10EXEZ SATA,64MB Cache 1.0TB hard disk. I bought it in the end of 2012. Now it is almost three years. I found it is not working yesterday morning. The Windows 7 can not found the hard drive when I boot up it. It can be found afterContinue Reading
In this new year season, I bought a set of desktop hardware and built a new PC. Here is the hard drive. Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB, SATA 3 (6GB/s), 7200RPM, 64MB Cache, 3.5in. It is designed for desktop, called Desktop Blue. Largest cache in this class. Transfer Rate (BufferContinue Reading
Today, I bought a new hard driver, WD1600JB-00GVA0, made by Western Digital. Price is good, almost same as 120GB Seagate Hard Driver. I paid $120.00, tax included. This is Western Digital High-Performance level EIDE product. It’s benefits: Fast — WD, the first to introduce an 8 MB buffer, has advancedContinue Reading