My 250GB SATA II Hard Disk Upgraded to 300GB SATA II
Guys as you know recently I got myself a new computer, along with that I got myself a 250GB SATA ll drive. But due to some strange reasons (which god alone knows) it developed bad sectors. 
So I took it to Seagate service centre in Chennai. There I deposited my drive and got it after a week, but to my surprise they handed me a 300GB SATA ll drive. When asked why I was given 300GB instead of 250GB, I was told that there was no 250GB replacement hard disk so they gave me 300GB. For the past one week I was benchmarking and doing tests to make sure that there is no problem in this drive. I feel that lady luck is partly smiling at me. 
Since I have gained 50GB of more disk space here is my total storage capacity:
Seagate 300 GB SATA-II 7200 rpm with 16 MB cache Hard disk drive
Seagate 200 GB PATA 7200 rpm with 8 MB cache Hard disk drive (Working as External HDD)
Seagate 160 GB SATA 7200 rpm with 8 MB cache Hard Disk Drive
Total Capacity: 660GB
This is how my 300GB Seagate ST3300622AS SATA II drive looks like:
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Wow, that’s lucky! not the bad sectors thing (it happens, mechanical things just aren’t perfect) but the extra 50GB
Congrats, use it well.
Thanks Buddy. Will use it well.
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hope too much benchmarking doesnt create the same problem again. Anway 300GB is too much.. i have 100GB and still got about 30% free.
Lucky thing man , the same didnt happen with me . I recently gave my sata hard disk to samsung service centre for replacement and they offered me Pata in exchange .
@Venu
Is 100GB really enough for you? After sometime even the current 660GB won’t enough for me.
@Madhur
May be seagate guys are better than the samsung guys.
what kind of file type takes so much space.. I believe you have a lot of MP3 and DVD videos.. For me the only folder which keeps growing is the software and photos folder
If it becomes huge, I “archive” it in a dvd.
Out of the total 660GB my 160Gb i use it for testing purposes. Playing around with linux and other stuff. My software, music, videos are also growing. I have archived so many dvd’s that it is now difficult to manage. So now a days I prefer keeping everything in hard drive itself.
Can i know where the Seagate sevice centre is in chennai.please provide me the address.its urgent…
hi
can any body tell me the address and contact no. of Samsung service center for HDD. my HDD got a few bad sectors on it and not getting recognised. i want to
repair or want the data retrieval.
please mail the contact details at sidjunk1@rediffmail.com
thanks
sid
Hello Sir, Let me know Segate Service Center in Chennai…
Urgent Pls……if u get this work i shall highly obliged 2 u…
Thxs/Felix