Oh ok.. but i lost my box.. so how am i going to send it in? Also i live in east  msia >< sad place..

Oh ok.. but i lost my box.. so how am i going to send it in? Also i live in east  msia >< sad place..

Oh ok.. but i lost my box.. so how am i going to send it in? Also i live in east  msia >< sad place..

im planning to buy an external hard disk which is around 100gb-200gb with reasonable price(just USB plug and play)
at lowyat
i want to store games,movies and software
can u guys recommend me? 

I had a WD green 2Tb hdd which storing all HD movie and put in media player. But recently found it laggy and want transfer all data inside to new hdd,but found the transfer rate just <1mb/s after few seconds. Normal transfers rate can reached >20mb/s as tried previously. I tried scan hdd with win7 default scandisk and some 3rd parties software but still unable completed after 48hours.
I did not put hope to rescue this disk as i just use it <1yr and will claim for warranty.Just want to get ideas to transfer all my precious movies to another hdd. I dont mind to spend some money to recover it.
Anyone can tell me how to solve this or fix the hdd slow speed issue?Thanks a lot!    

October 18, 2011
The impending hard drive shortage -- and possible price hikes
Flooding near Bangkok has taken about 25 percent of the world's hard disk manufacturing capacity offline

By Woody Leonhard | InfoWorld    Follow @infoworld



If you're going to need hard drives this year or early next year, it would be smart to get your sources locked in now.

Disk manufacturing sites in Thailand -- notably including the largest Western Digital plant -- were shut down due to floods around Bangkok last week and are expected to remain shut for at least several more days. The end to flooding is not in sight, and Western Digital now says it could take five to eight months to bring its plants back online. Thailand is a major manufacturer of hard drives, and the shutdowns have reduced the industry's output by 25 percent.

Western Digital, the largest hard disk manufacturer, makes more than 30 percent of all hard drives in the world. Its plants in Ayutthaya's Bang Pa-In Industrial Estate and Pathum Thani's Navanakorn Industrial Estate together produce about 60 percent the company's disks. Both were shut down last Wednesday. (Western Digital also has a major plant in Malaysia that hasn't been affected by the floods, so some production will likely shift to that plant.)

Fourth-ranked hard-disk manufacturer Toshiba makes more than 10 percent of the world's hard disks, and half of its capacity is in Thailand. Toshiba's plant has also been closed due to flooding.

Key disk component suppliers have also been hit. Nidec, which makes more than 70 percent of all hard drive motors, has temporarily suspended operations at all three of its plants in Thailand, affecting 30 percent of its production capacity. Hutchinson Technologies, which makes drive suspension assemblies, has also suspended operations due to power outages, although it says it will shift operations to its U.S. plant.

Seagate, the second-largest hard disk manufacturer, has two plants in Thailand, but neither is in the flooded parts of the country. Seagate notes that "the hard disk drive component supply chain is being disrupted and it is expected that certain component in the supply chain will be constrained." Translation: Component prices are going up, at least for some parts.

It's not clear whether that will affect the prices you pay. As a testament to adequate supply and lower-than-expected demand, retail prices of hard disks have not taken off: You can still get 1TB and larger SATA drives from popular websites for about the same price now as they were in September. Even if manufactuers hold the line on the product price, it's highly that unlikely disk prices will go down any time soon.

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Oh... did I not see Samsung in there? 
Samsung shall remain the price leader... yet again.

I think my Samsung 1TB F3 is start failing..download rar files, then when try to copy it to other hdd, error indicate I/O error.. Other type of files can copy paste without error, only with rar files..

Is WD CCTV version good? 64M 7200rpm..

btw, how to claim samsung warranty?

With Thailand experiencing its worst flooding in generations, component manufacturers have been especially hard hit.  The trickle down effect is having a huge impact upon hard drive manufacturers in particular. 

Late last week Western Digital announced that their hard drive production facilities in Thailand were shutting down due to the extreme amount of flooding.  It seemed like plants were safe from the rising waters but over the weekend things changed.  Their facilities in the Navanakorn and Bang Pa industrial areas outside of Bangkok were inundated, likely adding equipment loss estimated in the millions of dollars to an already bleak situation.

Considering Western Digital is currently the largest hard drive manufacturer in the world and nearly 60% of their production volume comes from Thailand, channel shipments were bound to suffer.  Even if these plants could get up and running again the infrastructure in Thailand needed to continue production –both in human and materiel terms- has been devastated.

Seagate on the other hand has been operating their own Thai factories at full capacity since the beginning of the disaster and hasn’t reported any flood danger.  However, this doesn’t mean they’ve been spared in any way. For them, the issue is a lagging component supply chain which is becoming a bottleneck since many manufacturers of drive heads casings and other internal items have been affected by these floods.

These floods could impact smaller players in the HDD market as well.  The bulk of final assembly for companies like Samsung and Hitachi GST may be located in other areas of the globe but like Seagate and Western Digital, many of their primary components will soon be in short supply.

So with hard drive production being affected so heavily, what does that mean for us consumers?  We run the possibility of seeing high prices and limited availability at one of the most important times of the year.  Indeed, some retailers like Newegg and NCIX have already begun limiting the number of drives a customer can purchase (Newegg is currently at a limit of one drive per customer while NCIX has announced a limit of two) as they gear up for supply shortages and price increases throughout the channel.  Speaking of price increases, we have seen a spike of 15% to 30% in the cost of some models over the last 72 hours.

This couldn’t have come at a worse time since Christmas shoppers will see higher prices on everything from notebooks to PVRs.  Flash memory isn’t safe from this turbulence either so expect its prices to increase as consumers begin looking for alternatives to HDDs.  So gear up folks because the days of cheap storage space are about to end….for a few months at least.  Our hearts and prayers go out to the people suffering through this disaster.