Best HDD for DM600

erukus

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Hi

Can anyone tell me what is the best hard drive for the DM600 and where is the best place to buy it - based on your experience.

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I had a quick look at the Dream official forum but there doesn't seem to be a list of hard drives known to work with the DM600. I see someone else had problems with a Western Digital like me. Another user advised using Samsung drives. I wonder which makes are fitted if you buy the DM600 with the hard disk already installed.
 

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I'm using a Western Digital IDE 160GB no problems
 

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I use a Toshiba MK4026GAX without any problems. I'd assume most drives are fine, just avoid any which have known problems.
 

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vinayr said:
I'm using a Western Digital IDE 160GB no problems

Which WD disk do you have? Mine's a WDC WD 16 00BEVE-00WZT0 (using the properties function in Windows). The disk that works in my DM600 is a Toshiba MK6021GAS 60GB. Tomorrow I am going to try upgrading to a Samsung Spinpoint M5 160GB.
 

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Upgraded to a Samsung HM160HC, works like a dream.
 

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nice might give that a try
 
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