talking about multibay enclosure, with usb3.0, could get you around 70mb/s to 80mb/s, better if comes with e-sata, can get 90mb/s on avg but your mobo must support port multipliers in order to detect all the drives with single e-sata connection.
and some users are experiencing connection drop with usb3.0, need to update the firmware to overcome the issue, but not 100% solved though, e-sata is much stable.

i made a comparison with the price of HDD between April and this month.
With the same model, price is definitely increasing!
HDD shortage!

omg!! i'd rget the shop people to format the disks and take them home ready to play

It has been a long while since I last gotten a harddisk. I am looking for a reliable internal 1T as primary harddisk. Which brand and model will you recommend?

I bought one Samsung HD204UI yesterday at RM255. Today I got a quotation for the same HDD at RM300++. Looks like Samsung is also heavily affected by the floods.

If they accept that they have to do the format for you, they will most likely do a quick format, which doesn't scan 99.99% of the HDD for problems, and give the hardware to you in less than thirty minutes. 95% of the time, this will not be a problem for the customer.

Personally, I'd do the formatting myself just to be sure. But a lot of people won't bother and most of them seem to get along fine.

This post has been edited by everling: Oct 25 2011, 03:35 PM

Woot.. I just called WD RMA department.
They said they are moving from singapore to malaysia next week.
Ask me to wait for next week and proceed the RMA by walk in to their service center.

This post has been edited by KKW: Oct 25 2011, 06:22 PM

base where,kl or penang?

They ask me call them back next week.
Hopefully in KL

seagate 1TB Rm25x
Seagate 2TB RM31x

dealer price.so damn high now.

Price of HDD has gone up... I'm shocked.
Today's pricelist - A Samsung HD103SJ is now RM212 or so at Viewnet.. can't remember exactly because I forgot to bring the pricelist (it was RM168-169 for quite a while)
According to the staff the price will increase further in the coming weeks.
He attributed the flood in Thailand as a factor to this..

WD's production capacity got halved due to this flood
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-w...lood,13802.html

25% of world's HDD are made in Thailand
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2011/10/22/hard-d...ng-in-thailand/

Output dropping by 30%
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44995733/ns/te...s/#.TqbfpbKNc_c

Some people are blaming monopoly, or non Thailand HDD wont be affected.
They forgot about this


This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Oct 26 2011, 12:13 AM

Ya I bought my new PC at the wrong timing... Bought few days ago, samsung HDD all out of stock and startec (still had limited samsung F3) pushed up the price to 230...

Hmm.. how about external hard disk?
Still same price?

External HHD still maintain, at least yesterday. Don't know about today and the coming days though...

That's weird..
The price increase on internal HDD but not external HDD..

ext hdd maybe too much stock in market.if we build pc , we use internal hardisk one.

many supplier sapu hardisk in market and sell higher later. better grab your hardisk before it raiase 50% of price.

50%?
Luckily I have enough space to store all my thing.
btw, will effect my samsung HDD that I send for RMA?

regret didnt buy hdd last week, seem like kena only buy hdd only after another 2 month loh. XD

So u guys prefer this kind or fluctuating price or apple kind of price??

good news !!

so we dont need to paid for 7.5USD for the bloody courier fees!