Highest temperature 54?

Get your stuff backup before the drive dead bro.

Say HI to my laptop internal HDD:



Anyway, the HDD really need to be replace ASAP, but for other reason.

which format you recommend to format external HDD ? i want for more stability. Exfat or NTFS ? i am using mac os x and the size is 2TB . BTW i do not have any windows machine here.

do i need to replace it?

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unfortunately, YES.
backup the data of that Seagate HDD ASAP while it still last.

Malaysia no more seagate ar? like nobody selling

I have a question guys about the OEM windows in your (laptop) hard disk.

If your laptop hard disk going to die, is it possible to transfer the windows partition to the new hard disk or do you have to buy a new Windows installation as well?

Anyone know what's the best bang for GB per RM ratio now?

WD Blue 1TB @ RM192

cant go wrong with that

how much difference is there between a 7200rpm plugged into SATA3 and 7200rpm plugged into SATA2

non-noticeable, as the read/write rates of HDD are well below 3.0 Gbps.

any recommended 3.5" external 2TB hdds? (reliable and reasonably priced)

and also 2.5" external 1TB portable hdd? (sure alot transferring and might have some knocks? its to share between 30 ppl) reliable and priced ok

hi guys, want to ask your opinion on this.

i wanted to purchase 1TB for storage purposes. i got 2 green WD died off almost the same time last year.

so which is more reliable irregardless of price ?
blue / green / red / black / silver

so what temp actually for a hard disk to be stable?

i mean what is the max temp in able for it to operate.

Last time one of the most reliable HDD drive was the Hitachi 2TB with 4 platters, it was voted for it's reliability due to it's high manufacturing QC.

Overall never had much of a bad experience with their drives compared with other brands though Hitachi HDD are kinda harder to find in some stores compared to other brands.

Few years ago we got Samsung and WD Black 1TB which are very reliable, the former one is cheap and reliable, the later one is durability.

But currently i dare not to say much for "most reliable HDD Drive" as my WD Black 1TB managed to fail me within 2 years
But most of us will agree on that "most reliable SSD brand"

I'm with you there. To be frank I don't think there even such thing as guaranteed reliability when it comes to HDD, it's mostly the luck of the draw. I have a 8 years old Maxtor serving on my old rig till today while some of my barely 1 year old Seagate and WD failed.

Generally I would point consumers to rather look at warranty and other RMA factors rather than model or brand name alone if any technical issues arise with the drive it's self.

mind sharing ur wd black 1tb story with us?
usually the wd black i face just minor issue which consist of only 1 bad sector, and those black wd drive still able to let me backup data to another hdd. so far only 2 out of 5 got such case happened on me and my fren.

IINM in March, I shocked when my PC run HDDcheck during bootup, like deleting files and recover files.
Feeling it must be something to do with my HDD, i went on to run HD Tune and get the following results of my C Drive :

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=Atta...post&id=3414761

Initial it got 12 current pending sectors, upon googling i realize it is another meaning of bad sectors, so i do backup ASAP.
After 3 weeks, my PC hang when surfing internet, knowing that the HDD had reach its date, i force shutdown my PC and restart......I cannot see anything on my monitor, not even BIOS Splash screen!
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2784581&hl=

One good thing of WD Black is we may have ample time to do backup before it finally gave up

This post has been edited by sI Taufu: Jun 2 2013, 11:49 PM

oh, ur wd is normal black performance or black RE Enterprise model?
coz all 5 unit i bought are wd black re4 enterprise, consider better than black wd performance, but mahal another rm50 only, worth to buy after all.