i just found out that czone has loads of f4eg 2TB selling for 340...

very tempting

This post has been edited by jinaun: Sep 8 2010, 11:32 PM

1) if u dun mind reinstalling windows and all ur other software... then upgrade the internal HDD.. i believe there is also 2.5" 1TB hdd.. but its expensive and also the z height is 12.5mm

2) often the fastest/simplest way.. move all your non-essential stuffs.. eg movie to external storage..

i prefer a fresh start with a new HDD.. LOL

sure.. as long is convenient to you.. you can use the cloning method

if i'm seeing correctly..

2TB samsung in czone pricelist dated 6Oct is RM299

2tb F4EG (hd204ui) is now rm290 @ Czone, prices is dropping like crazy

according to samsung website, this model supports "4K with emulation"

how does one format/partition a HDD to use 4K sectors instead 512bytes? izzit done automatically during partitioning/formatting process in windows 7?

This post has been edited by jinaun: Oct 9 2010, 11:06 PM

u can refer to below for 4k sectors

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/are-you-...ctor-drives/731

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2888

from what i can gather.. current drives are not native 4K, its actually a 4K drive which emulates (packs 512bytes into a single 4k sector)

meaning, its physically 4K but logically 512bytes

This post has been edited by jinaun: Oct 10 2010, 10:12 PM

IIRC WD black cache is 32+32

32MB inside the marvell controller and another 32 MB 2nd level i presume, how it utilize the additional cache nobody knows

2TB F4EG is now oledi RM290

AFAIK.. its still 290.. and possibly getting even lower

you maybe referring to outdated pricelist

pls check the pricelist date, the pricelist gets updated a couple of times a week

This post has been edited by jinaun: Oct 18 2010, 03:16 PM

not necessary... you can raid 2 different HDD

i've a samsung 500GB with WD blue 500 in a RAID1 array.. they works fine till today

i'm not sure.. coz never tried that...

but there should not be any problems

you should know that RAID0 increses your chance of dataloss exponentially

behold.. the 3TB WD GP







This post has been edited by jinaun: Oct 19 2010, 08:50 PM

750GB x 4

guys.. just found out today 2TB F4EG has risen to RM315

i dun understand

u mean u connected both the molex n the sata power to the hdd?

Hard Drive Makers to Significantly Reduce Warranty Periods

Western Digital is dropping the distribution warranty period for Caviar Blue, Caviar Green, and Scorpio Blue drives from 3 years to 2 years (Caviar Black and Scorpio Black will still carry 5-year warranties).

Effective December 31, 2011, Seagate will be changing its warranty policy from a 5 year to a 3 year warranty period for Nearline drives, 5 years to 1 year for certain Desktop and Notebook Bare Drives, 5 years to 3 years on Barracuda XT and Momentus XT, and from as much as 5 years to 2 years on Consumer Electronics.

http://hothardware.com/News/Weaksauce-Hard...rranty-Periods/

This post has been edited by jinaun: Dec 18 2011, 08:00 AM

The details of the new warranty periods are:-

Constellation 2 and ES.2 drives: 3 years
Barracuda and Barracuda Green 3.5-inch drives: 1 year
Barracuda XT: 3 years
Momentus 2.5-inch (5400 and 7200rpm): 1 year
Momentus XT: 3 years
SV35 Series - Video Surveillance: 2 years
Pipeline HD Mini, Pipeline HD: 2 years

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/16/se...ing_warranties/

dah lah mahal... warranty pulak kena potong

This post has been edited by jinaun: Dec 18 2011, 02:56 PM