nowadays is like this unless u willing to pay the premium for high end product

If you are confident with your PC... go ahead.

haha, ask dulu jek, thinking of getting wd 1tb red or black re4 soon as a backup hdd for my current system.

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Added on August 21, 2012, 6:29 pmlyp is selling wd green 3tb RM465 atm.

This post has been edited by super macgyver: Aug 21 2012, 06:30 PM

For long term, try and get something with the longest warranty and also one that fits your budget. For NAS usage, the 3TB WD Red drives seem like a good balance of price, speed and 3 year warranty to boot. Buy two of them and put them in RAID 1 mode.

Happy to hear this. It's one freaking fast drive but the only thing pulling me back is the 1 year warranty.

Did you put an AC adaptor to power up the unit?

You mention only some part numbers are 2 years and some are 1 year? If all the new ones are now 2 years, I might be tempted with the Barracudas.

Thanks for the tip. I'm one of those that like to use the USB stick.

how many year warranty now?
seagate reverted to 2 year right?

WD Carvier Blue or Black better for gaming purpose?

New price for SG 3TB at viewnet.. RM459!

wat model is it?

This one.

how long is the warranty?

no officially from Seagate saying it is two years. but part no 1CH166 in warranty check is two years, can't give you the performance though.

besides Seagate Barracuda 3TB (ST3000DM001)'s 3 x 1TB Platters. any other model have 1TB platters?

hellooo.. i want to ask something.

i have a 1TB 3.0 external hard drive (toshiba canvio) but the chip is broken somehow.. what I did is I took out the drive and thinking to replace the enclosure. However the price for 3.0 enclosure is RM95.

Then I'm planning to just put the drive into the laptop.. but I'm afraid it will act as normal hard disk.

So my question is, the 3.0 external hdd is just a normal 2.5 hdd? they just put 3.0 interface to make the transfer faster or what? is it worth to buy the 3.0 enclosure?

Just buy a enclosure with USB 3.0 port will do.
But makesure your Laptop has native USB 3.0 port.

hitachi has higher reliability (more error tolerance margin) among others

This post has been edited by sotong168: Aug 26 2012, 01:08 AM

WD Red but the Barracudas are the only ones with 1TB platters spinning at 7200 rpm.

Yes, inside the external hardisk casing is a normal hardisk. Can be 2.5" notebook hardisk or 3.5" desktop hardisk depending what you bought. Toshiba Canvio should be 2.5" notebook hardisk.

You can take out the hardisk from the casing and put it in your notebook but of course it'll stay in your notebook. This would It is very inconvenient to share the contents of that hardisk with other computers. It is easier if it's mounted on an external casing.

Depends on your needs. If you want portability, you still need to get an external casing (USB 2 or 3) so that your 2.5" hardisk can be portable and accessed externally by other computers / notebooks when you plug in the USB cable.

Hitachi drives are superb and very reputed for reliability except that it's very difficult to find nowadays after being bought over by WD. The Hitachi has higher MTBF and rated for 24/7 usage. Note that the 3TB Hitachi Deskstar is a 5 platter design vs 3 platter on the Barracuda.

Hopefully, the Hitachi factory Shenzen that was sold to Toshiba starts making Hitachi drives again (under Toshiba name).

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2202087/+980#

Guys, I am looking for a reliable HDD for keeping Bluray movies to be played at home theatre.

Any good one to recommend? for both 3.5 and 2.5? would like the size to be more than 1 TB as the file size for one movie exceed 10GB easily.

Btw, is the following a good deal?

http://deals.bigsale.com.my/deals/35690/se...spx?fr=featured

any good review for wd red 3tb vs seagate 3tb?

Did you check Anandtech? It had a short review of the drives in NAS environment.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6157/western...h-the-premium/3

Tom's Hardware also got;

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/red-wd...nas,3248-4.html

Anyway, if used as standalone, the Barracuda definitely wallops the WD Red but when you put in your network as a NAS device, you are limited to the 1 gigabit connection anyways and any drive capable of 125MB/s is going to look the same.

thx for the info.. was thinking to get wd red but many said that in NAS they would perform.. if only for single home use better try seagate 3tb... but 3 years warranty scheme would buy me in...

This post has been edited by -oc-gassa: Aug 27 2012, 06:26 PM