i heard Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB good review so i go C-Zone get one myself , havent test yet.

master Fariz & my friends here, i ady posted my WD Blue Benchmark test here, anyone can help me?

Any sifus can recommend a good external enclosure for F3? Budget under RM100.

ya.. fortunately it still can survive until i open all the dvd drive slot to let air flow in.

That seems normal.

My earlier post:

Your benchmark score seems normal~~
Is your WD HDD close to full? or you are transferring to an external HDD?

So far in my dual 5-in-3 drive enclosure (80mm fan at the back, exhausting into case) that is stacked on top of each other, my drives are showing temps between 37C-43C. Drives are 1x WD Black, 4x WD Green in each enclosure. The Greens are RAIDed so when I access my RAIDed drive, all 8 Greens will run. So far so good, no heat issues.

Anyone heard of the WD black Scorpio? Launching soon or launched already i think

canovaro, how about coolermaster case, any comment?

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..

hoow to and how long claim samsung hdd warranti?

It should be a myth for normal hard disk. For SSD, if without TRIM, it will reduce wear level each format

Bought the infamous WD Green 2TB 64mb .... then only saw this thread .... kaw .... alot bad story about this disk ... was planning to keep alot of "glory" into it ..... now torturing the drive by simply write in and out and read at the same time ..... tommorrow wake up and see how

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 © 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 121.293 MB/s
Sequential Write : 119.564 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 40.285 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 67.669 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.465 MB/s [ 113.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.170 MB/s [ 285.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.557 MB/s [ 136.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.172 MB/s [ 286.2 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [F: 4.0% (73.8/1863.0 GB)] (x1)
Date : 2010/07/30 23:48:07
OS : Windows 7 Enterprise Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x86)


** The old WD Blue 160G 16mb does serve me well, 3 year dee still kicking !

This post has been edited by ahhann: Jul 30 2010, 11:48 PM

Maybe you can consider a HDD Dock like Xigmatek Secure Within ur budget

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.

I do not have an F3
These are HD154UI test result, a full partition that filled with 85.7%

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 © 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 69.158 MB/s
Sequential Write : 66.240 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 24.911 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 29.820 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.296 MB/s [ 72.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.694 MB/s [ 169.5 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.452 MB/s [ 110.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.690 MB/s [ 168.6 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [G: 85.7% (1197.3/1397.3 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/08/01 11:55:58
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)

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Added on August 1, 2010, 12:10 pmHi, you got a really nice Areca ARC-1222. may I know where do you buy it? A quick lookup it is hovering 400usd

Getting 74.9MB/s is great.

This post has been edited by mitodna: Aug 1 2010, 12:13 PM

I bought it at this out-of-the-way shop in Sim Lim Square (Singapore) - think it was TakNet, they cater mostly to businesses but I dropped by and they had a whole range of Areca and Promise RAID cards. I don't have the receipt here with me, but I remember paying around S$700 for it plus some accessory cables (before GST refund of $34).

Guys... my HDD specs



Is this okay ??

What HDD you running?