The best feeling in the world!

[Gagan]

Man, you guys remember those WD1200JB HD's? remember how they came out in like late 2002 with the 8MB Cache and were ATA133, And everyone was like wow WTF! So I had a crack-rack rig which was:

Athlon XP 2000+
512mb PC2100 Ram. That's right, PC2100 BITCH.
I went through a slew of HD's but I upgraded it to a 708a after my Pioneer DVR105 died.
Asus A7V333 Motherboard
Western Digital WD1200JB 8MB Cache HD
PNY Ti4400 Geforce 4 Agp.
Floppy
SB-LIVE saved from my OLD OLD p2 400 which had a guillemot geforce 256 128mbsdram(still have this guy too)

Anyways i'm getting off track, so this guy is REALLY OLD. I mean he probably hasn't been used in a year, and so I needed a new case for a while and the Superlanboy was housing this stuff, upgraded case about 1 1/2 years ago due to the old one dying. Nonetheless I pull this guy out, and I put him in the lanboy again, Put all my rig parts in it (4800+ 4gb ocz, phantom 500 not my OCZ (Gonna put er in) and my a8n32 sli(Love at first sight couldn't use it for a while) and I booted it. Obviously Home wouldn't boot due to the fact of a completely new rig.

So I formatted and MAN, this baby still runs strong I can't believe it. Kudos for WD making some strong drives, and people say drives degrade over time, I can't believe I'm using PATA

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Gagan
Man, you guys remember those WD1200JB HD's? remember how they came out in like late 2002 with the 8MB Cache and were ATA133, And everyone was like wow WTF! So I had a crack-rack rig which was:

Athlon XP 2000+
512mb PC2100 Ram. That's right, PC2100 BITCH.
I went through a slew of HD's but I upgraded it to a 708a after my Pioneer DVR105 died.
Asus A7V333 Motherboard
Western Digital WD1200JB 8MB Cache HD
PNY Ti4400 Geforce 4 Agp.
Floppy
SB-LIVE saved from my OLD OLD p2 400 which had a guillemot geforce 256 128mbsdram(still have this guy too)

Anyways i'm getting off track, so this guy is REALLY OLD. I mean he probably hasn't been used in a year, and so I needed a new case for a while and the Superlanboy was housing this stuff, upgraded case about 1 1/2 years ago due to the old one dying. Nonetheless I pull this guy out, and I put him in the lanboy again, Put all my rig parts in it (4800+ 4gb ocz, phantom 500 not my OCZ (Gonna put er in) and my a8n32 sli(Love at first sight couldn't use it for a while) and I booted it. Obviously Home wouldn't boot due to the fact of a completely new rig.

So I formatted and MAN, this baby still runs strong I can't believe it. Kudos for WD making some strong drives, and people say drives degrade over time, I can't believe I'm using PATA

How can you not use a machine in a crack-rack rig?? And there's no shame in PATA. I have two WD 120's that I've been using for a long time, and they are just now starting to go out on me. They've been through, about 3 different of my machines.

 

[Gagan]

They are amazing hard drives man. It really makes us understand why they started owning the market after the Desktstar 75gb which was KICKASS @ the time.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

WD's aren't that great even today. They were once king because no one had anything better, but when you offer 1 year warranties these days, obviously the drives aren't that great.

75GXPs kicked@$$? They were amazing for their size and people were like wow fast, but I think soon enough we discovered how bad they were.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: Gagan
Man, you guys remember those WD1200JB HD's? remember how they came out in like late 2002 with the 8MB Cache and were ATA133, And everyone was like wow WTF! So I had a crack-rack rig which was:

Athlon XP 2000+
512mb PC2100 Ram. That's right, PC2100 BITCH.
I went through a slew of HD's but I upgraded it to a 708a after my Pioneer DVR105 died.
Asus A7V333 Motherboard
Western Digital WD1200JB 8MB Cache HD
PNY Ti4400 Geforce 4 Agp.
Floppy
SB-LIVE saved from my OLD OLD p2 400 which had a guillemot geforce 256 128mbsdram(still have this guy too)

Anyways i'm getting off track, so this guy is REALLY OLD. I mean he probably hasn't been used in a year, and so I needed a new case for a while and the Superlanboy was housing this stuff, upgraded case about 1 1/2 years ago due to the old one dying. Nonetheless I pull this guy out, and I put him in the lanboy again, Put all my rig parts in it (4800+ 4gb ocz, phantom 500 not my OCZ (Gonna put er in) and my a8n32 sli(Love at first sight couldn't use it for a while) and I booted it. Obviously Home wouldn't boot due to the fact of a completely new rig.

So I formatted and MAN, this baby still runs strong I can't believe it. Kudos for WD making some strong drives, and people say drives degrade over time, I can't believe I'm using PATA

You call that drive old? I was pulling apart computers from my dad's office that were Pentiums.. There were quantum drives, a few maxtor and plenty of WDC drives. Some of those drives were circa 1993 and still work!

 

[Gagan]

Hence the @ The time and the massive recall. No kiddin

Goku I had a 40gb that lasted like 5 years tops then died ;P

Hehehe damn man you must pamper them!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Gagan
Hence the @ The time and the massive recall. No kiddin

Goku I had a 40gb that lasted like 5 years tops then died ;P

Hehehe damn man you must pamper them!

I've got two Quantums chugging along on the crack rack right now. Not sure what I'm going to do for the third drive though. But I think the machines of that age were just harder to kill, and the ones of these days are just fickle. In fact, I'm going to have to get some Glide games for the 3dfx card I have in the P3-500.

 

[Gagan]

Quantums were rock solid. I remember I had the choice between that 40gb or a 36.4 gb 7200 QUantum(5400 for hte 40gb maxtor) and I was stupid I chose the maxtor and paid for it.

WTf happened to quantum!?

 

[Rotax]

quantums i think were some of the best drives i've seen/used . . a 4gb drive in my first build (6? 7? years ago) . . still kickin it!

when maxtor took them 'over' it was the best drive maxtor ever supported, cuz they didn't really have to! haha

 

[Auric]

It would have booted had the storage controller been changed to standard configuration first or if a setup repair had been done. What do you mean degrade over time? Just become noticeably outdated performance wise? Anyway, I think my preferred HDD's back then were uber quiet Seagate's. No love for WD from this quarter.