Which is the best harddisk for quality and reliability now? What is the best size for the price now? I will be using the harddisk as a second harddisk to store files with huge size. Will the type of harddisk affect how fast I load those big files?

As for DVD, which is the best brand for quality and price? I'll be using the DVD to burn video to be played on the DVD player to watch on TV. Which is the best brand/type of DVD for that purpose? Buying in big bundle will be cheaper?

I might be buying DVD RW to store certain files as well, which is the best brand for DVD RW? How many times can I rewrite those DVD RW?

Thanks a lot.



This post has been edited by Fawkes: Aug 23 2009, 12:29 AM

Bump, no one can help me?

Q Which is the best harddisk for quality and reliability now? What is the best size for the price now? I will be using the harddisk as a second harddisk to store files with huge size. Will the type of harddisk affect how fast I load those big files?

Hello there,well personally I think that Western Digital Hard Disks has a better rep than Seagate as the recent firmware problems has randomly shut down many 1 TB HDD's and corrupting the data in it and me myself has a problematic 250GB Seagate Drive.So I opted for WD HDD instead and has been satisfied with its performance till date

Q As for DVD, which is the best brand for quality and price? I'll be using the DVD to burn video to be played on the DVD player to watch on TV. Which is the best brand/type of DVD for that purpose? Buying in big bundle will be cheaper?

i used LG and have been using it since June 07 and up till now no problem =),What do you mean buying in bundle ? Theoretically it should be but it depends on the seller


Q I might be buying DVD RW to store certain files as well, which is the best brand for DVD RW? How many times can I rewrite those DVD RW?

There are no certain number of limits that you need to follow.As for me personally I think that rather than having to burn the data many times on a piece of DVD.Now just picture the DVD-RW disks is like a tyre..after lotsa use,it'll be worn out rite ? IMHO its better to store in a 2.5 HDD since you mentioned constant rewriting of data.Its better and faster to use a cheap external drive

WD Green 1TB = RM289 (Lower power consumption)
WD Black 1TB = RM340 (Higher power consumption, superior performance)
WD Green 808GB = RM239
WD Green/Blue 640GB= RM204 (Try to get the blue one, performance is closer to Black)

What type of 'huge size' file are you talking about? Uncompressed 10 Bit HD video for editing?

Yea, I have been using WD as my HDD and external HDD since last year, so far no problem, guess I'll go back to WD again this time. Thanks a lot.

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Added on August 23, 2009, 1:51 pmWD Black only goes up to 1TB? How about other type of WD HD not listed by you? They aren't worth it?

If I buy one WD Black 1TB now, in the future, I can raid it by buying another 1TB WD Black?

About the huge size files, yea it's those recorded HD video files.

So what's the cheapest WD Black that I can find in LYP now? I checked the pricelist in hardwarezone.com.my and the chepest I found so far is RM333 by Cycom? Any shop selling cheaper than that?

This post has been edited by Fawkes: Aug 23 2009, 01:51 PM

BUMP, what's the cheapest price for WD Black 1TB now?

i can't find any cheaper than 333.i guess it is the cheapest.be warned though,these drives are quite hot [38c in a good ventilated casing] and they are noisy

Ok thanks, noisy as in around how many dB? May be noise from my wall fan can cover it up.

sounds a bit quieter than the fan on xigmatek hdts1283

the WD 1TB caviar green is only 2-3C cooler than 1TB caviar black. so not much of a difference there. Noise likewise is not noticeable at all in my casing.

i have 2 units of 1TB caviar green died on me with 4 months so i decided to go for the black one instead.

That should be alright I guess, my wall fan is much noisier. Thanks to all who replied here.

mah suggestion.

1. WD Black Caviar
2. Pioneer DVD-R/RW
3. better get external HDD. there's a limit on how many times u can re-write. DVD-R is better option.

This post has been edited by uzer85: Aug 24 2009, 12:39 PM

I've already gotten a My Book Home Edition 640GB, used for backing up files.