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Question about buying a hard drive

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Hello everyone, so I hacked a wii console, but the problem is it's a LEM ... an unbreakable drive, no choice but to launch from a hard drive.
But I'm afraid to buy an incompatible hard drive if at the shopping mall I can't find any hard drive that's on the list of compatible hard drives
Which brand would you recommend? samsung...
so thanks in advance :D
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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Hi

Order online or find in a store a verbatim 500gb or 1tb, it works perfectly!
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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Thanks for replying so fast, that's great :D
but no, I don't order online, that's why I wanted to know which brand was recommended
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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Mine is a western digital, no problem at all... Self-powered, fits in your pocket, perfect!
I hacked a friend's wii, couldn't manage with her lacie by starck drive, so I wouldn't recommend that model! Otherwise... you have to try! ;)
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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I've had to deal with two Lacie By stark drives.........
One is perfect :)
The other, nothing works.

Their stuff is way too random ^^
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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Except that western is total ......
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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mamule wrote:I've bought a dozen different ones at the supermarket, never had a compatibility issue
same here! and some are total junk sometimes!

they all work without any problems
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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kalidor wrote:Hi

Order online or find in a store a verbatim 500gb or 1tb, it works perfectly!
like KALIDOR I have a verbatim 2.5 500GB (self-powered)
no compatibility problems at all!
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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actually you especially need to avoid hdds with system recovery or restore (undeletable partition).
If you have an auchan or carrefour nearby, get the cheapest one of the size that suits you. test it. you have 15 days to return it with no reason needed. keep the receipt and the packaging neatly opened :74:
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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Kalidor announces the death of his WD 320 sata scorpio black external drive and the death of his second external hard drive WD 320gb IDE external.

Alleluia my brothers, keep buying WD (for info there's a 20 percent return rate under warranty on the eco green 1TB and 2TB drives.

The series continues after the crappy WDD 20 40 60, we carry on in force.

Not to mention some Western external hdds without an ON/OFF button ...

I know, there will always be guys to say it's great, I have 17 years of experience in IT maintenance and I stand by saying it's garbage.


You've been warned!
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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I sympathize and won't contradict you (800gb dead but I got the impression it was the enclosure that gave up, taking the hdd down with it :cry: )
Also, some will tell you they've had the same experience with such or such model/brand. Unfortunately it's a bit of a game of russian roulette :? The only small consolation (very small compared to the data loss) is that sometimes you receive a model with a bigger capacity than the one you sent in.
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Re: Question about buying a hard drive

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as for me it's seagate that's been banned for a long while now ^^

I only have wd, which, maybe I'm also lucky, has been running for quite a while now)

And I hope it lasts.

But then, I think this is affecting more and more brands....... consumer society...... pfffff
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