Bought a new HDD today, after having school. It’s a Seagate Barracuda 120GB SATA150 with NCQ (more on NCQ).

Unfortunately, my motherboard doesn’t know NCQ, so I will not benefit from this interesting and most likely powerful improvement. Maybe on the next upgrade ;).

The HDD guarantee is interesting.
Seagate offers a 5 years guarantee as follows:

  • depending on the size of the HDD: 1 year (< =80GB)/2 years (>80GB) on supplier’s site
  • the rest up to 5 years in special Seagate collection centers (at present, the closest for me is in Polland) - I’ve been informed (not sure how valid this is) that Seagate will have such a collection centre in Romania too, in about half a year

I will have 240GB storage space after I get the (less than 6 months) old HDD back to service.
What will I use all that space for?… I’m still thinking about that…