3TB is hitting the mainstream market soon. 2TB might need to give way to drop price. I bought 1TB Samsung F3 @ RM188 2 months ago.

I plan to get another one to RAID it later. just gonna wait it to drop to minimum price. Another RM60 to go lol.

So you mean HDD price for next 2 months will going up trend?

Was planning to get another 1TB Samsung b4 2011.

Just fyi guys, all new HDD out by 2011 will use 4kb sector.

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This post has been edited by billytong: Oct 30 2010, 10:47 PM

With the price, SSD is rather pointless with RAM so cheap these days. Plus not many of us keeping HDD writing/reading all the time.

Until they get cheaper with reasonable size, many user will not bother touching it.

Do u have a second HDD that has mirrored data? HDD is cheap nowadays. Just buy a couple and mirrored it, then u wont need to worry about which one fail first and lost ur precious data.

Currently I mirrored my 2x1TB HDD each other.Once these filled up I gonna buy 2 more mirror each other again.

I think the higher platter density of the green drive should make up some of the performance loss from the rpm.

Strange enough why people even bother buying 1TB nowadays when the 103SJ is RM20 extra.

it has nothing to do with malware, even when u copy it on desktop HDD, it will be slow. When HDD are on full load doing any copying, it will be slow regardless.

buy multiple HDD and store ur data. u could try buy like 3-4 unit 500GB cheap HDD and mirror ur data. Dont put it inside computer and run all the time. only use as external HDD.

I highly doubt a HDD can fail within 5years if u only use it as an OFFLINE backup drive.

I still have my quantum bigfoot 4GB 3600rpm 5.25inch here, no bad sector, thats after 15 years already.

and other drive

Quantum Fireball 15GB 7200rpm, 11years.
WD 40GB 9years
Samsung 80GB 8years
WD 200GB 7 years. All no badsectors

so? How long u want ur HDD to last? 20-30years?

This post has been edited by billytong: Sep 3 2011, 01:41 PM

nope, been a while I didnt touch those HDD. Its like I only access when I actually want to use. the bigfoot has been off for months But the Data inside there are still intact tho.

This post has been edited by billytong: Sep 3 2011, 02:08 PM

I have been using HDD as my personal storage for many years already. I didnt bother using CD-RW/DVD-RW.

With HDD so cheap now, any of us can just buy a couple of them and mirror it.

u could just buy a HDD docking station and buy the naked HDD. it is far cheaper this way if u plan to buy a lot of HDD down the road in future. New HDD normally come with a transparent poly case or an anti static plastic bag. Good enough for u to store in ur drawer.

external HDD is only useful if u want to keep carrying ur HDD around.

and slightly more durable although the difference is negligible.

I am more interested in a 2TB 7200rpm drive going down to mainstream pricing like <RM200. It has been a while the size of the 7200rpm HDD stucking @ 2TB while the 3TB version remain 5400rpm.

Most people will recommend you to get Samsung 103SJ. It is the cheapest fastest 7200rpm 1TB in the town.

I just got my 3rd Samsung 1TB 103SJ. Really like this HDD.

This post has been edited by billytong: Sep 16 2011, 10:30 AM

Dear sir, please check bold statement, if this aint enough for u, check the feedback corner here.

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This post has been edited by billytong: Sep 17 2011, 08:19 AM

Just make sure, u always have a case fan blowing towards ur HDD all the time.

I have all my HDDs running at near room temp, which is why all my HDDs can last for >5years without bad sectors or any other issues.

This post has been edited by billytong: Oct 14 2011, 08:47 AM

whatever crap reason it seems the best idea is to buy used HDD now than new one lol