Saturday, July 3, 2010

My new 1TB hard disk

Just bought this new Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB (SATA 3Gb/s - 32Mb Cache) from Precess Technology Bukit Jambul, Penang last Sunday (27 Jun'10). Costed me RM298 with 5 years warranty (shop only covers for 1st year though, the rest of the 4 years will charge me for shipping fees if RMA through the shop).




No problem with the installation into my computer. Be warned though that this drive doesn't support the latest WD's advance format (EVENTHOUGH WD's website indicates that the WD Align software (for advance format) is compatible with this drive (that's why I download it).

Crap...wasted my 3 hours of full formating through WinXP & then delete & re-create the partition in order to use the WD Align software. In the end, the software said that this drive is not an Advance format drive!! Arrg...just re-format for 3 hours again the next morning.