Posts Tagged ‘hard disk’

Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus Mini-Review

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

I bought the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus from Comex last week. The 1TB model was selling at only $239 (was $309 the week before at Sim Lim Square). I had planned to get an external hard disk for my MacBook to put Time Machine backups on. Time Machine requires a separate disk to run on, and I’ve not had the chance to turn on Time Machine because I didn’t have a spare external hard disk available until now.

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Fixing a Dying Hard Disk

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

My (wife’s) desktop PC at home started to act up. The boot hard disk was dying. This was a Windows PC. I didn’t want to re-install the OS and all the software, partly because I can’t find the serial numbers of some of the software I have already installed. So what I needed to do was to clone the dying disk to a new disk. How can I do the cloning?

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What’s Wrong with “Made in Thailand”

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Seagate hard disk made in ThailandWhat’s wrong with “Made in Thailand?” It’s funny that we sometimes pass judgement on the quality of a product based on its country of manufacture. However, to see a “Made in Thailand” label that seems to spell an ominous warning, as if there is some danger that you need to be aware of, takes things to a new level.

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