May be worthwhile to wait for the 2TB samsung then.

2TB section still too expensive for the time being.

How bout performance wise, bro ozak?

-pWs-

Is it safe to send the hard disk for warranty claim?

I mean, they will try to repair the hard disk and if they managed to repair the hard disk, they can retrieve all your data and probably sell them to the underworld.

If they don't repair the hard disk, how do they dispose it?
Do they destrop it and dispose or just throw them away?

If they go for recycle, those guys will try to slavage the hard disk and if they managed to recover the hard disk, they can retrieve all your data from the hard disk and probably sell them to the underworld.

I read that someone managed to recover a hard disk and found data from a bank with all the customers account information.  Not sure this news is true or not.  This is not what we want.

How do you know they do this? Publicised company policy, news, or working there?

I have one running 5x2TB WD Green (in SPAN mode) and 2x1TB WD Green (in SPAN mode) off a E7400 + Asus P5N7A-VM, running Vista HP (32-bit) since I have a spare licence. This rig serves as my backup server. I use SPAN mode to create a large block of HD space without redundancy, as this will act as backup storage only (the main storage will be in a RAID-5 array).

I will soon be replacing the CPU/mobo with an unused Q8200 + Gigabyte EP45-UD3P since I plan on using the E7400 plus the mATX P5N7A-VM to build a NAS into my unused SG-01 casing (plan on 5x2TB HDs, 2 in the internal drive bays, 3 in a IcyDock 3-in-2 removable drive cage in the external drive bays). I have started to look around at FreeNAS to run this NAS, and the possibility of using a CF-to-IDE adapter to boot the OS off a CF card via the IDE port. This NAS would be headless and kept in my store-room next to my main home switch.

My main server should be completed by this week, as I just need to pickup a good HSF (thinking of TR's Venomous-X) and a cheap GPU (Radeon 5450 possibly) to power 2 monitors. I will be running 2x2TB WD Black (OS + fast HD for video ripping/encoding), and 8x2TB WD Green in RAID-5 off an Areca RAID controller. I know of the possible TLER issues with the Greens, but the RE4s cost twice as much, and at current prices, the additional cost is RM3.2K. So I am hoping that since I also have a full backup in my other rig and I hope I can change the timeout settings on the Areca controller, things should be ok. CPU is a i7-870 with Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P mobo and 8GB of Kingston VR. I've mounted 2 units of IcyDock's 5-in-3 removable HD cage in my CM Stacker casing, and plan to add a 3-in-2 cage as well for another 3 HDs. So in theory, I should have 14TB of RAID-5 storage now, with another 4TB (less what the OS takes up) of fast storage (off the WD Blacks) to speed up my rips/encodes.  Potentially another 6TB of storage once I get myself down to Singapore to get my IcyDock drive cage. The OS will be Win7 HP (64-bit) at present, though I will consider using Windows Home Server v2 when it is finally launched.

I will also use my new server to test the CF-to-IDE adapter (using 2x16GB Kingston 133x CF cards) for possible use on the NAS.

SAMSUNG HD203WI

It's a 2tb 5400 rpm 32mb cache drive using 4 platter.

The Samsung F4 coming out in September 2010 is 3 platter, uses less watts, and uses safer ROHS compliant materials.

I installed 4 of the Samsung F3 HD203WI into my QNAP 659 as EXT4 raid5. No problems even after doing smart disk complete test :}
You can forget 1.5tb, and just get the Samsung hd i got. Best bang for buck and good performer for storage.

I leave my QNAP 659 on all day. The temperatur for the drives is between 38°C/100°F to 40°C/104°F.

I heard the Hitachi 2tb 7200 rpm drive which is 5 platter if i am not mistaken, runs at a higher temperature and is noiser. Consumes more power to boot

That was why i went with the Samsung F3 2tb instead because of a very similar performance in read/write but still beats out in those other areas.

Hi All,

I see there is a 2TB WD Black & 2TB WD Black RAID Edition.

May I know is there / how much performance gain if use the 2TB WD RAID Edition, when not configure to use RAID in system.

Is there any reliably issue between these 2 version ?

Is that F3 2TB samsung, the higher capacity version of HD103SJ or EcoGreen F3?
If it is the higher capacity version of HD103SJ, where or which shop is selling them?

EcoGreen F3?? 7200RPM?

i got rm 160 for 500gb.so cheap right

nid advice here, I need to buy a normal harddisk for heavy storage used, what brand can be suggested for both durability and longer life span? any brand could do...tnx

Is Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F3 suitable for File server?
I'm planning to use 2 1TB Spinpoint F3 with RAID 1 configuration for file server. It's for office usage.

Do recommend if there's any other better hard disk. At the same time, I would need another hard disk for CCTV DVR usage. Please recommend. Thanks a lot.