Price of HDD is slowly falling back to normal. Not bad. Took one freaking year. Just hope this year they have no repeat of the floods.

ehh i thought the Seagate HDD's warranty is 2 years now?

I'll probably skip this due to the warranty, too short IMO, only 1-year, and most of them broke down right after 1-year+.
Maybe the SV35 series better choice, 3-year, but need to pay more than WDC offering.

wd green is 2 years. not bad when seagate is one year same price.

Wanna share another good RMA experience with WD.
As always, I used their courier service, strangely though it was free; there was a msg on the RMA page saying they normally charge but currently it's free.

Took them like 2 weeks to pickup my dead HDD (Green 500GB), had to email them several times since the courier guy FFK twice.

Today I got my replacement, a re-certified 3"5 WD Black 500GB (WD5001AALS) 

Edit:
Just checked the details, RMA created 15 Sept, courier pickup 5 Oct, replacement received 11 Oct.

Have a look at this link: http://support.wdc.com/warranty/index_end.asp?lang=en
Follow the steps to get your RMA done, if it still has warranty.
WDC has very tedious steps to follow.

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Added on October 11, 2012, 10:01 am
According to Compu-Zone's lastest price list, Seagate CCTV (SV35??) 2TB price is equal to WDC 3TB CCTV (AV-GP??).
WDC is a better buy in this case

Yes, the AV-GP carries 3-year warranty.

There's a new 3TB in the market, from Toshiba. No idea about the warranty and all but it's priced at RM409 @ viewnet.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2...-3tb-hard-drive

I think it's this one:
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2012_08/pr0801.htm

Had some terrible experience with green WD..
My HDD 1.5 HDD just contracted bad sector since last mth and went totally dead last week.Guess i overstress the hdd by running movies and mp3 directly from it instead from my local drives.

Currently looking under SV35 since there were indicated as the far most reliable hdd atm.
Samsung F3 spinpoints are out of question since samsung no longer produce hdd anymore. I would not risk to pay over RM250 for some users who tried to sell their 2yrs or above samsung 1tb/2tb drives.

Any advises around?

Thx for the advise. Thought that when the video players like mpc or vlc attempts to read other partition's/different drive to play mp3/movie files, it'll tends to degrade the performance of drive. It's like local streaming in between drives which requires read/write process. Guess it's my misunderstanding.

Never have i got so particular into purchasing HDD in the past. But eversince losing over 700gb of movies,mp3,work and other games installed has cause me to be extremely vary of choosing my HDD from now on. I had purchased many WD HDD before and none had failed me even after 5 years of useage. This green died on me after exactly 2 years of useage. That's where the warranty went dead too.

So far lookin into the forums, it's like most dealers in the garage section had been took overwhelmed by WD sellers. There are seagates but they sell normal ones and it's reputable to malfunction easily. The only ones i saw that hangs around the RM290 tag are the sv35 cctv type hdd which is recommended by most for it's durability over 24/7 stressing. The one selling a brand new sv35 1tb wasn't even from lowyat's garage.

There are enterprises one but i'm unsure of it's quality. I dont read the statics since 1% and 0.74% annual failure rate kind of like transparent to me. i just pray that they dont died after exact 2 yrs.

wd acquired hitachi gst but not toshiba

i was in shenzhen hgst plant (hailiang) ... hitachi gst is now "hgst , a wd company" due to china gov doesn't approve the deal , so now work as separate entity but under wd 

price dropped on 2tb range to 299. look like 3tb is going to drop to 399 soon?

Is your PSU good enough to power your system?
And since you have retrieved all the files, please try zero-filling/secure erase your WD Green HDD and repartition it. I have restored one previously "dead" HDD and it is now working just fine.

top performance should be WD black series.

err.. i just point according to his choice.. 

I forgot which program I had used specifically in that case. It was either HDDScan's Erase, the command line tool diskpart's "clean all", or CCleaner's Drive Wiper (Simple Overwrite). Whatever it was, I was shocked at how quick the erase was, which caused me to reexamine the HDD for the bad sectors only to find them gone. It seems that whatever it was that was causing the problem, the HDD was not suffering from a physical defect.

Not sure if this is the right thread to be asking or not, I just bought and will be installing a Seagate Barracuda 3TB HDD to my system. Now I have read about 4K alignment and 3TB capacity issue with older system?

Basically what I know in hand now is,

1. I need to use GPT instead of MBR?
2. Windows 7 will automatically align it to 4K for me?

Can anyone confirm my statements?

WD BLACK 4TB @ RM959 (viewnet)
Anyone wanna be an early adopter?

I'd rather get 3TB x 2 with that price... of course, there's no 5 years warranty and all..