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About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them!

27 June 2008, 06:20pm

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500 GBytes Product of Thailand

I've gone against my previous promise to never buy Seagate again, but it was for a good reason: I wanted to mirror (RAID1) an existing Seagate drive. I've seen instances where a Seagate and WD drive of supposedly identical capacity had a slightly different number of sectors, so I played it safe and bought another Seagate. If I'd bought WD and it had even one less sector than the Seagate, mirroring would not have worked. (It may have been the other way around, with the WD drive having more - but I didn't want to risk it.)

I've bedded the ex one last time, but that's it. Absolutely no more, Seagate!