This is what I have observed - Capacity of HDD doubles every 3 years. Price of HDD comes down with time as bigger capacity HDD is released.

Actually RM5xx for HGST Enterprise 2TB is quite a good deal considering the solid performance of their Enterprise range.

Vendor? Those are KL, if I'm in West Malaysia I won't have such hassle, I live in Kuching where vendor only import base on demand or for whatever reason.
Well, so far my drives has been... OK... I've not been using them for very long time, unlike my Samsung 2TB which is running 24/7, torrenting and shares purpose.

If you really want it you could try hikari85.

SV35 has a higher spin rate and can support 32 simultaneous video streams compared with AVGP's 12 streams. AVGP really shines at 24/7 ops with constant write especially in ext3/4 filesystems. I'll be moving my 2nd AVGP to my linux desktop soon.

Well, I'm fine with the AVGP, wasn't really a performance craver anyway, the SV35 is much expensive if I back-to-back order it here, Hkari85 is from Penang, postage could be much worst... so yeah, I'll stick to whatever options I have right now, currently saving up for smaller case for pure NAS setup.
Looking at Linux setup for my future sharing options, Windows Server is faster though in terms of background performance, but I'll get to find out later.

That's why I said if you really wanted to get your hands on it.

For storage and sharing, NAS is the best way to go. As for HDD performance, some are tuned to CIFS and some for NFS or even iSCSI. Have a look at StorageReview's findings as they put the different HDDs through different workloads.

Tom's Hardware shotout for WD Purple and SG SV35 seems to point to SV35 being tune to general write intensive apps and this has stirred my interest in the range.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/survei...ce,3831-10.html

FYI I have lost 4 WD GPs to NTFS filesystems corruption. I'm very sure the SATA cables were not the cause of it. I have since made the happy move to EXT3/4 and ZFS.

Were you using RAID on those failed WD GPs? I believe the GPs is not cater for hardware RAID though
I'm cheap skate on using those NAS system, pretty expensive IMO, and I need apps that require runs on Windows (most of it) so yeah my requirement is different, will look into Linux alternatives.

thanks for the heads up, however like you i'm staying in kuching so not a lot of choice for hdd's here.
pc image only offers 1 year warranty for wd green and blue, 2 years for red and 3 years for black

Haha, no they weren't RAIDed. Although some FreeNAS forumers have tested and verified that WD GP could run RAID, I wouldn't risk putting my data on RAIDed GPs. My problematic WD GPs were all on external enclosures which I have used religiously to backup my data the last couple of years. All of them started showing NTFS problems - corrupted files, index etc despite healty SMART status.

I guess the heavy online backup workload I put the WD GPs through may have exceeded what it was designed for. But I think for your case backup and archive, WD GP would work perfectly.

WD would still honor the full warranty as stated on their website even if your Kuching vendor don't provide you full warranty support.

I did RMA for my Samsung and WDC, Seagate being the easiest and fastest, while WDC is also fast but not as easy and fast as Seagate. DIY is cheaper...

PC Image did only 1-year for the Green? Whose the Salesman? Let me complains...
PC Image have always honor the full warranty period by the manufacturer, provided you still have the receipt with you, but the RMA process is tedious when it passed the 1-year, it'll takes more than few months

thanks, if that is the case i might give it a shot
yep went to the ict fair last sunday and asked 3 different sales person all same answer so

is wd black's warranty worth the extra cost over wd blue at 1tb? seems like a lot of horror stories regarding wd green drives

This post has been edited by DreamScars: Jul 8 2014, 12:06 PM

Green's problem is the head park issue, if you going to use it intensively, then Blue or Black, but my Black also have issue once and RMA it last year, there's always issue with every single HDD out there, problematic rate is another issue...
Otherwise get the AVGP which has extra 1-year warranty but of course need to back-to-back order for most retailer as it's not a common demand.
Black's warranty is good but you pay for the extra warranty, plus its heat issue is another which is too high for 24/7 usage, on a hot day can shoot up to 48C with fan blowing it... That's in my room (really hot room) during "summer" in my main PC of which only runs in the night time right now due to the worries of overheating of the overall system.

Avoid Green, i had 2 of them, both got tons of bad sectors before i RMA it.
They're for storage use only cause it has high latency.
The Black and AVGP one didnt escape the fate of RMA either.
I sold off most of them, except the Black 2TB.

Now i only use 2x 3TB Toshiba drives on Raid 0, bought them not long ago, only stores non-critical data

When you noticed your drive take longer than usual when just copy/read.
it's Time to check the SMART data and Even viewer for disk error.
IT's the initial symptom of bad sector starting to develop.

+ Avoid shitgate at all cost.

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Jul 8 2014, 01:41 PM

Erm, can I know how long you use each drive before they fail on you?
I have 1 Green before, 1TB failed just after warranty finish, now it's one darn expensive paper weight, failure reason is bad sectors growing so I didn't use it any more worries of losing data.
Also how long have you been using the Toshiba?

More than 6 months for Thoshiba if i recall correctly. Damn scared to store anythings important on them, gotta buy 2 more backup drive

WD Green and AVGP started to develop problem after one years.
While Black one after two years.

Green one was the most serious, bad sector occupied more than 75% of the drive.
AVGP and Black only have tiny bits of bad sector. but WD honor the warranty and replaced them.

have u tried wd re4 enterprise before?

Never, they're too expensive. i rather buy 2x green 4TB which is still cheaper.
or go for cheaper brand like Hitachi or Toshiba.

RMA is a small matter, backing up data from an almost dead hard drive is real pain in the butt.

im wondering if sv35 will be suitable for storing games or made as boot drive?

For storage purpose, yes, for booting your OS, it can boot, but not recommended.

GP's IntelliPower feature that parks the HDD head every 8 secs throughout its lifetime is not an issue if you use wdidle3. Some Reds were also affected by WD's adventurous step to introduce the IntelliPower in it too. Good thing they have decided to remove the IntelliPower feature in the later Reds. If you own any Reds , you can also use wdidle3 to check if it comes with IntelliPower switched on.

To ensure smooth operation of your HDDs, just watch these 3 - heat, shock/vibration and power. If you can care take of these, your HDD will have a good chance of lasting well after the warranty expires.

This post has been edited by mrbob: Jul 11 2014, 09:43 AM