guys, a question:

the transfer speeds of external hdd, does it depend on the casing?

like, are there any difference between cap ayam cases and those that come with the casing by default?

for example, i have this Cliptec case with a 640 gb WD 2.5" caviar blue inside. how would it compare to the WD Passport 2.5" drive?

thanks!

i'm thinking of getting a 2.5" external hdd 500GB, does buffalo ext hd comes with e-sata? or any other better brands that comes with e-sata? thanks in advance

Heads up guys.

Wanna know why Samsung's 1TB F3 is bloody cheap at Jayacom? (RM181)

They're OEM drives. I bought 3 units today and checked the serials online, and got this:

The ones I bought at viewnet however, gives a code 100 (This product is under warranty. )

The drives come without the usual plastic housing and 4 screws. Instead you'll get a normal anti static bag. Oh and the warranty is a mere 1 year from the shop... not sure if it is possible to RMA directly to Samsung after that though. With Seagate I've managed to RMA some OEM drives... gonna ask Samsung about this.

The drives however are fine so far.

report in, my 1tb mybook wd green cavier external hd....Kong...after checking, found the external casing faulty....

take out the hd, use it inside my cpu....

this external HD i use it once a month for my backup purpose. last me 9mnth only mean 9 times with everage 2 hour only per mnth. big problem is, i lost the warranty receipt ftpng my house moving....haizz

I would rather buy 2 samsung F3 1TB for RAID-0 than buying WD Black 2TB

Well ... that was just me

is it true that there is a limit for a hardisk to be formatted.. means that if u formatted it a lot.. the disk will be useless mucchhhh more earlier than expected..

juz bought 1.5tb Samsung hdd... HD154UI from C-zone Digital Mall yesterday night at Rm250

anyone using it nw ? its not SpinPoint 3 but how is the performance ? lol

Any of you running RAID-5 mind sharing what your transfer rates are, for comparison purposes?
I don't have much to compare yet, just a network-based file copy (since its a huge one, needs time to finish)

I'm running 8x 2TB WD Green (WD20EARS) in RAID-5 on an Areca ARC-1222 controller (Win 7 HP 64-bit).

LAN-based transfer over 1Gbps LAN from another PC, 4x 2TB WD Green (WD20EARS) in SPAN mode to the local RAID-5 array, using Windows file copy from mapped drive
Total transfer size: 6.69TB (estimated total transfer time: 24 hours) - entirely video files in .avi, .mkv, and BD/DVD rip directories.

Average transfer rate: 74.9MB/s (as measured after 2.18TB has been transferred)
My NIC is showing I am using around 700Mbps of the LAN bandwidth, so not sure if the LAN is saturated (with the remainder used by the LAN overhead) or if the bottleneck is the RAID-5 write speed or the source SPAN array (my guess is that it's either the RAID-5 write speed or the LAN is saturated).

Once this is completed, I will try some other combinations like WD Black -> RAID 5 (same computer) and then in reverse, to get a read-based transfer rate.

Samsung F4EG 2TB, 667GB per platter

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/03/samsung...s-2tb-for-less/

How to check the SSD whether is trim or not ?

WD 2.5" 500gb only 150MYR

Viewnet and Cycom.
However, understand that it is the drive only.

WD Passports are still around the RM200 range.

Good time to buy HDDs though, as I'm expecting a slight bit of shortage after PC fair.
Seagate Expansion 1TB only selling for RM239 now, RM10 less from the week before lol.

any1 know segate momentus XT hybrid SSD available in malaysia yet?

Samsung 2TB no stock d. i ended up buying 1.5TB at RM240

i bought my 1.5TB at Dexcom, near the end of hall 3. they said 2tb bo stock jor. 

samsung 2tb still available....bought 1 today

But its warranty period shorter than WD Black Caviar of the same range.

Somebody high above you has given you another opportunity to retrieve your data. Take it!

Maybe it's 'alive' for now because it was from a cold boot. Once the drive warms up, the problems might come back again. This behaviour is what I used to retrieve what I could from one of my HDDs before having to RMA it.