Don't know about the rest but I just bought a WD passport essential 1TB a week ago. Its working as intended with no problems so far

This post has been edited by Nightsky: Jan 12 2011, 04:44 PM

umm guys im kinda new to the whole ext. HDD scene so i was shopping around the garage sales and i saw this
500GB USB 2.0 + USB 3.0 for RM209, its a WD model
is this a bang for bucks or is there something better ?

hye guys..
can i know which one is good between Samsung S2 and WD Passport Essential..
cause i heard before this wd will produce more heat than samsung.
both price almost the same.
thanks

Hey guys, I have problem with my Samsung External Hard disk 320GB. My file system suddenly change to RAW and I cant format it. I cant open it either.

Anybody have this problem before, please help me how to solve it. I would appreciate it alot. Do pm me.

Thank you so much dear LYN people.

My laptop hard disk 320GB, start having 'jit jit jit' sound after 3 years... means it's going to kong anytime? Sometimes after I reboot, the sound will gone.. it happens maybe once a month only, not very frequent.

hey guys.. my WD 640 GB disk..

when it seeks or sometimes by its own..

it seems to generate quite a loud seeking noise.. does that mean its gonna die soon ?

from the crystal disk info.. i can see that its has been on for 18k hours with 287 power on count, and its showing GOOD.. can that be trusted ? or should i trust my ears and get it replaced ??

Samsung Spinpoint has the lowest temperature as I read~

may I know from budget constraint and absence of high transfer rate, which model of Spinpoint is most suitable for 3.5" SATA and 2.5" w/ or w/o enclosure?~

Something is a mist with my Western Digital 2TB Black HDD, it seems to disappear after awhile from my PC (Bought last year).

I can't change file names nor delete certain files.

=D

This post has been edited by acther: Jan 20 2011, 03:17 AM

Several possibilities:

• You don't have the necessary user permissions to rename or delete certain files.
• The hard disk has turned bad earlier than expected. Try a full hard disk error scan.
• Your system is unstable due to a bad PSU or your computer is demanding more power than the PSU can reliably supply.

This post has been edited by everling: Jan 20 2011, 01:36 PM

Hi guys, I want to ask recommendation for a 1TB internal HDD and 500GB ext HDD recommendation

I saw from C-zone that there are a few internal HDD at RM170 and I wonder which one is good as they have the same price.

For the ext HDD, I saw a Seagate 500GB selling for RM199 and I wonder whether it's a good deal.

For the internal HDD, go for the Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB.

Thanks yong.

How about for the external HDD?

For external HDD 2.5", my current favourite is the WD Passport Essential SE (USB3) 1TB. Have 3 of those, so far so good. If you don't have a USB3 capable PC, then you can either still get this WD unit, so you can future-proof your investment (especially if you plan to upgrade your PC in the near future), or you can just get a USB2 external HDD (you can also buy the HDD yourself and put it into its own enclosure, which is my personal preference).

Usually I would go for a 2.5" HDD from one of the major manufacturers - WD, Seagate, Samsung, etc, I usually get the cheapest unless I hear something particularly good/bad about a particular model, and then get a cheap but decent enclosure to go with it. But since the USB3 drives are out, I've been buying the WD units. USB3 is so much faster.

Right now I am doing two simultaneous file copy actions:
1. RAID-5 internal HD array to USB3 Probox HD (WD Green) - averaging 46.3MB/s after 80GB out of 313GB transferred
2. USB3 WD Book Essential 3TB to USB3 WD Passport SE - averaging 26.2MB/s after 44GB out of 601GB transferred

Both the Probox and the Passport are connected on the same PCIe x1 USB3 card, while the Book Essential is directly connected on the motherboard's USB3 connector. Not sure if the PCIe x1 card is a bottleneck or not.

Thanks.

Maybe you can try Teracopy to try to get a faster speed.

Thanks. Will give Teracopy a shot.

is your probox comes with esata? the transferring is much faster if u hv hefty of TB to tx

Just buy 500GB Buffalo Mini Lite 2.0 External hardisk, will report how it goes from time to time.

It comes with USB3 and eSATA. But to use eSATA, I would need an eSATA port multiplier PCIe card as my motherboard's eSATA ports are not port multiplier. It's cheaper to buy a USB3 card, which is what I did. I've not tested it myself but I seem to read (in a few posts here and there online), than USB3 is marginally faster than eSATA in real life use.

Most of my transferring is done in hefty hundreds of GB chunks.

usb3.0 > esata? my esata spd is 60mb/s++ on avg for a slow hdd (green)
btw, i got one port multiplier card for sale as i m using probox too, heehee

This post has been edited by sotong168: Jan 24 2011, 03:50 PM