How's the performance of a 750GB and 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3? Is it the same/about the same? Planning to get either one..

The 1TB is faster by a little.
You wouldn't feel a difference though.

I should go out and buy a lottery ticket... my 3rd back-to-back RMAed 1TB WD Green 64mb drive with bad sector
Ironically, in the last 1 month since I bought the disk, the price has since plunged from $285 to $210-215...

Ouch.

Perhaps there might be an outside influence like an underpowered or ageing PSU? They can damage your HDD when the HDD loses power at critical moments.

WD has been demonstrate how their technology in the read/write head to prevent collision with the platter, but if it's power failure that caused the bad sectors, I wonder what WD will do about their "marketing"?

emmmm... i doubt it has anything to do with the PSU... the fact that they are "green" drives and consume 4-5w less vs the other drives in my rig makes me think maybe it has something to do with the fact that they are GREEN

and i have hdds from every other manufacturer including buffalo/samsung, hitachi, seagate and an aging 250gb WD running a-ok

Maybe a faulty cable then?

I have two Caviar Greens myself, but the older WD10EADS models. No problems after I RMAed one of them for a possible PSU related failure.

When idle WD Green seems to lower its spin to save power. It lags when you try to access data from the HDD.

I bought WD green 500GB and it bricks after a month with no burnt marks, smell etc. Luckily can swap 1-to-1 from shop. Too bad data already lost.

Who sells the new Western Digital AV-25 notebook harddisk?

Ugh... all these scary talk about Greens failing is making me itch to get a new HDD. >_<

hey, i owned WD10EADS too, full of data inside, hopefully it can last long.

It has nothing to do with green version or not.

It just could be a bad batch only.

just received my 2x samsung f3 1tb and 1x wd green 2tb from rockrock!! his price is lowest n reliable seller.. wuhooo

Good luck with your GREEN coz my GREEN is not so green after all (it's RED with three XXX now!) and I was going to use it as a backup drive to store all my precious photos... so I guess that is now out of the question.

how much you bought?

hi guys my old cap ayam casing is quite small. what the distance is best to keep the drive apart. i plan to add 1 more hdd (disk no.4) and if do that the hdd will become stick together. maybe about 1cm apart. will new cpu casing can give more space?

Is that alright to leave the hdd running naked? cox i swap the harddisk between pc and media player often. So most of the time it is running naked.

samsung rm200 each and wd rm390

hey, that's cheap leh.
wao, now 1tb drive reach the price of rm200 already, dropping below rm200 soon.

1TB drives ARE already below RM200.
Hitachi 1TB Desktar - RM189
Samsung 1TB F3 - RM195