Buying A Hard Disk

Hard Disk Advise

I have a problem with my hard drive after 3years it has finally packed up although it had been showing signs now its gone. It did put up a good fight.

Anyway i had bought one which didn't last your to nine months (it was bought from a popular store in computer village).

So how do you know a fake drive from a good one. I have to buy a replacement tomorrow. Any ideas?

Buy online how many months would that take, am diskless. Today i had to use ubuntu live cd to make those posts. Any ideas

you can try PC outlet - (akin adesola VI or the palms VI)

whatever you do, don't go near Treomy in computer village. bastards sold me a 320gb seagate hard drive that crashed in two weeks.( after i had moved ALL my video files and legacy versions of my application installers  )

warranwetin?

90% of the sellers in nigeria are glorified roadside hawkers. take something back to them( even with a socalled warranty, and they begin to hem and haw. unless you are a guy with craze. . .

seagate and it cost me 24,000 - 19000 for the drive, 5000 for the case

i then bought a maxtor from pc outlet for n20000, (can u believe it?)

the really big problem is that u can't tell which are the hawkers until the crash

both were external.the seagte 2 - 3wks. the maxtor is still running

both came with warranties

if u read pc outlets warranty, you will find a cleverly worded disclaimer. . .the manufacturer will repalace the item. . .( and maxtor no dey naija)

as to teomey, sellers of the seagate drive, the story is a little convoluted. when the seagate crashed, i didn't bother going back to them. i guess i had the right initial impression. but a couple of weeks ago, i was buying something else at their shop, and they were like hows your drive. and i said it crashed, and they were like ah ah, you should have brought it back( because they have a warranty on the back of their receipts) so just to see if they weren't full of shit. . .i took it back, and what do you know. . .they are full of shit. . after wasting an hour of my time 'testing' the drive, told me to pay 2500 and pick a new drive. what will i do with another drive, since i've alraedy replaced it? i left them with the drive. i actually inteneded to post it in the referall thread, but never got round to it

i have never had any bad luck with this thing called hard disk. Go for fairly used, let them format it fully for you there and u are good to go. thats what works for me. Chao!!!

@Hayznet;

I don catch u . .
a whole admin, doing this

I have 4 HDD (Seagate) all over 3 Years old and none has ever crashed or Malfunctioned in any way. The only HDD crash I've experienced was when I moved the HDD of my former Laptop into an external USB adaptor casing.
Sometimes the crash of the external disk might actualy be due to problems from the external adapters and not from the drive itself. Another common cause of HDD crashes have to do with the fact that peope tend to transfer large files to-and-fro the HDD and never bother to periodicaly defragment the drives or run any disk performance programs on the drives.

For good computer part vendors who will give you good prices and will back up their waranty I'll sugest the following outlets:
(1) Machil Computers - Suit 5a, Spring Bank Plaza, Otigba Street, Ikeja [01-4960981]
(2) Kavex Computers - 9 Otigba Street, off Awolowo Way, Ikeja [ 01-8159795]
(3) Any Gafunk outlet
(4) BenchMark - Somewhere in Anifowoshe Area, Ikeja.

@ralvy, go away nw. Mama's callin.

the best thing is
just to order
shipping wouldnt
take the whole week

u purchase what u will
be happy about.

purchasing things at original
price here would be very hurting
when it aint!!!

Can anyone give me a step by step procedure of how to install a second (new) hard disk in my PC

just ask them for the original

you can know the original by the price|

Hi  Guys,
well Ihave   read   the comments  here.  I would  say, buy from me. Buy from  my company. IF we give    you warranty, we  stand  by  it  and we  change it  you have  problem with it.  The factories  that   make  products  for  me  accept  their  products  when it doesn't  work.  All  dealers  are not  cheaters  or  liars. Buy from me. I am in Abuja , Ikeja  computer  village  as well as  Lagos Island. You can check  my contact here. Tell me what you  need. If I have  it I tell you if  I dont have it, I help you get it or Itell you I dont have it.

hi tomaX
can i get disk performance programs

As a matter of fact, Hard Disk is something manufactured by humanbeings like everyone in this forum and there's every tendency that it will crash or even get expired, that's a real fact we should understand. Though, there are fakes in the market like in computer village where i stay but that's doesn't mean that all Hard Disks in computer village are fake. There are good ones i bet you, it is my business and i will tell you more better than anyone here.

Then for your information, I am informing you guys to come to me anytime you need any computer stuffs ranging from Desktops and Laptops both new and fairly used and also computer accessories like internal and external Hards Disks all sizes as mentioned being the bone of contention of this topic. Ok

Just check me out at
3b Pepple street computer village ikeja. Opp Zenith bank or call me at 08033924627,  Victor is my name. However, i can deliver to office or Home for those within Lagos and Abuja.

Thanks for your patronage.

Victor.