check email..they should give you tracking no. after they send..

I did check up on the website, after 3weeks status still " in process ". Just want to call them to know the exact status.

oic..last time they give email notification they receive the faulty hdisk i send on 11 may...

then 13 may they send back to me new one..15 may i get back..

did u try sending it to samsung service center instead? not sure u still can or not..
but last time i send to samsung it is very fast, within 1 week replace me with a new unit.

This post has been edited by turion64: Aug 16 2012, 04:29 PM

Just got my Samsung drive back (RMA), sent using PosLaju on last Saturday morning, and they use UPS to send to me, arrive just this afternoon.
Btw I live Kuching Sarawak, I believe if KL should be 2 days faster
If you gave your email when you make the RMA report, you should receive the tracking number when they sending to you, it only took them less than few hours to check my drive I think, it was a dead drive (tick-tick sound and undetectable).
And the packaging back from Seagate...-.-;; phew, darn big, darn thick protection. Have no time to test the drive yet...hopefully it's OK... hehehe

GGZ contacted me, the WD red drive price for 2TB is RM410, they told me its selling like hot cakes so the price went up

Just bought WD 3TB HDD. @RM475 (1 TB per platter ??)


WD30EZRX-00DC0B0
http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotlin.../ni_cwd3tb.html








This post has been edited by yangxi: Aug 17 2012, 10:12 AM

I'm no expert. Just a serious enthusiast.

For budget, you may want to look at Hitachi drives. I think you can only get 1TB and 2TB drives and they are slightly more pricey than the normal Seagate / WD drives. You would probably have to settle for WD drives as warranty replacement if you happen to claim warranty for the Hitachi drive.

I was told that when you send back a Samsung drive for warranty, you get a Seagate. You sure you got a Samsung back?

Benchmarks not too shabby but I'm not too fond of the Green drives. I think I'm going to try my luck with the 3TB Red.

It's Seagate drive, with Samsung label + Seagate model number beside it, you can consider this as Seagate but not to confuse the consumer, Seagate retain the Samsung label (IMO).

what the price now for 3tb red? i definitely not going for green wd, sumore i just sent 5 unit of wd green 500gb for warranty 2 months ago.

hi, i considering setting up nas for storage to keep away coz getting tired duplicating files for 2 HDD. Any HDD recommended, the larger the better i guess, coz i'm considering 2 bays NAS instead of 4.

Just found out recently about the firmware update for Seagate's 1TB platter 3TB drive... it fixes the 'chirping' issue. More info here and here.

Firmware link/info here.


I have flashed to the new firmware successfully. Data is intact and the chirping is gone.

Maybe the info about this issue can be posted on the first page.

This post has been edited by cannavaro: Aug 18 2012, 03:46 AM

i bought a archgon hdd docking (MH–3507 FUSION) earlier, its running on usb 3. but no matter what disk i put in..the transfer rate is also around 7mb/s.
surely not my usb port problem, because my usb3 thumb drive transfer at 50mb+/s..

is that a false advertisement? anyone using ar?

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Added on August 18, 2012, 7:25 pmi have also bought a 500gb blue, < 2 weeks old...now cannot be detected although it still spin...and got some noise coming out of it...i bought it based on my past exp with WD drives...i guess they dont make good drives anymore...

This post has been edited by Fjive: Aug 18 2012, 07:25 PM

mostly depend on luck.

Seems that Seagate Barracuda 1 year warranty increase to 2 years.

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Added on August 19, 2012, 6:52 amThanks. Data is intact indeed.

Source: http://forums.seagate.com/t5/forums/forumt...age/true/page/1

For those not fond of burning ISO, just grab the Barracuda-ALL-GRCC4H.iso, extract with WinRAR. Renamed the GR-CC4H.ima to GR-CC4H.img. I ran the Win32 Disk Imager program and used GR-CC4H.img as the image file and wrote it out to the USB stick.

This post has been edited by mitodna: Aug 19 2012, 06:52 AM

I simply ran the .exe in windows environment.

Hmm.. did Seagate extend the warranty to 2 years after releasing this firmware update?

don't think so. had another 3TB, it is the 9Y part, that's the firmware upgrade for, still one year warranty,

only different part getting two years warranty. unsure the performance of this new disk

so dun need use it to boot cd ar?

where did u get it?

melaka WD dealer .. too bad still 2yr warranty

This post has been edited by yangxi: Aug 21 2012, 02:00 PM