WD Blue or Black or even SSDs would be good as bootup. sv35 and AVGP are great under constant writing mode - eg CCTV, torrenting, continuous video streaming etc.

WD Greens are great for archiving. Just google and see how to better protect your HDDs.

8TB and 10TB HDDs might be available soon as Seagate CEO confirms during quarterly earnings report announcement that "customer development kits" have been shipped out to major customers.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/37434/seagat...year/index.html

http://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-dri...nt-hard-drives/

http://hothardware.com/News/Seagate-Announ...ews#!biO8uR

Recently received quite a few number of faulty usb WD 2.5inch ultrabook, and 1 unit of seagate usb 2.5inch hdd.

i have advised those users to get separate purchase for wd 2.5inch black caviar with a descent ext enclosure for their next purchase.

any recommendation for good 1TB ext hdd ? gonna use it with my MBP

Seagate 1TB Expansion, cheap and well, it's up to your luck.
My company uses it for daily backup purpose, about 2~3 times a week plugged overnight (they have others as incremental backup).
So far the usage is being moderate I must say, no issue so far.
If you're using for critical data, buy 2 copy or maybe 3 as you can afford to make several copies for mirror backup, in case 1 down, you have another copy.

Most importantly is when you do operation (read or write) on the hard disk, make sure it has as least shock or vibration as possible to prevent physical bad sectors, this will permanently destroy any data, hard disk can be laid on any surface as long as it's stable along the operations.

If you're going to use it in rugged environment, best is to save up for external SSD, or couples of USB3 flash drive (big in size?) but due to wear and tear, flash drive chips will wear out in 2~3 years if you use it daily. I believe SSD will have much better durability in this case.

Can someone recommend best bang for buck external 2.5" hdd? Speed, size, price.

RM210 ~ 250

I have around 5 hdd at home ( all 2tb, using toaster and 2 more in pc) various brands - samsung, hitachi, wd.

I have had to RMA/replaced 2 Western Digital hard disk in the last 2 years and yesterday, another one went kaput ( warranty expired) due to bad sectors that cannot be regenerated. So all in all, 3 wd hard disk died on me and another 2.5 external wd rma also few months back.

Now im beginning to think WD have a QC isssue here ? my other hard disks at home ( samsung, hitachi 3.5 and buffalo 2.5) still going strong with daily use.

I'm also beginning to think the same.

Anyway, surprise nobody mentioned the new launch of the 5TB / 6TB WD Red and the WD Red Pro line.

Anyways, no more WD disk for me . This is especially fishy when WD offers FREE 1 year data recovery services now with their hard disk

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com.sg/dr-wd-my/


Here is my blog post on this matter. now how do i share this with WD malaysia

Nah, just some marketing gimmick, I believe there's a statistic posted sometimes ago study the hard disk failure rate over the spent of within a year up to several years, 1-year being the least, 1%? Just some gimmick to lure ppl into buying WD, mine locally only have choice of WD, so I have no choice.

I am now tend to buy the CCTV line (Purple currently) for its 1-year longer warranty and for its slightly better durability? Well, we shall see when I got mine.

Ontrack gets all the free publicity with a major brand plus free ride to customer details when an interested end-user signs up. What more can a company ask for? They will be able to reach more potential customer this way faster then on their own. I doubt people will buy a harddisk just for the free limited time data recovery service. You already have plenty of free tools available that can readily do a quick recovery without taking the problem HDD apart.

I have got 2 dead Seagate HDDs (completely undetected at BIOS) and 2 WD greens with bad sectors. Running about 20 WDs (mostly Red) at anytime. Comparing between SG and WD, I'd rather go with WD for its FW stability. Both brands have their fair share of issues. Just need to make sure you cut out the vibrations, keep drives cool and keep a stable power to the HDDs.

This post has been edited by mrbob: Aug 13 2014, 10:18 AM

Agree that wd is better than seagate but I still don't want wd. Looking at buffalo as alternative. I recalled Hitachi and Samsung is out of the business right?

Neither is better than the other, it's "luck", some can use over decade, some broke within few days
Hitachi is still active but only on 2.5"? Correct me on this.
Samsung's HDD is bought by Seagate.

Hitachi is very much alive under HGST.

Very tempted to get Toshiba drives since they are HGST drives. They still produce 3.5". But the new WD Red 5TB and 6TB drives are tempting though.

6TB is already on the street but local still selling 4TB with much higher price, I'm stick with 3TB, much worth per GB.
Can't wait for the 6TB arrival but doubt the price will drop soon, new tech always high at first few batches.

ur wd is which model ar? green or blue? me and sis , also neighbor are all using wd re4

Green power for the 3.5 and the my passport for 2.5

I had a Green 1TB, died just after warranty so I gave up on that, right now I have a normal Green, a CCTV Green and newly bought just broke the shield Purple (all 3x 3TB).
So far they have not much issue since I don't use them when not needed, plan to move the Purple to replace one of my Samsung 2TB in the 24/7 tiny server.
I do have 1 1TB Blue and 1 1TB Black for my OS and Games, Black had already been through RMA once, so if you going to ask me about durability, I would say... that's all depends on luck. The Black also been through 3 years before it start causing issue (bad sectors) and luckily enough I manage to backup all the data inside.
So far I only did 3 RMA myself, 2 Samsung and 1 WD Black. All were painless, but Seagate service is way better in both speed and its packaging, 4 days compare to a week, also Seagate packaging is bigger (more foam).

Try taking the Buffalo apart and you will find *surprise*surprise* ...Seagate. Good thing you're on 2.5", a friend had his 3.5" buffalo ext killed twice - dead HDD. First time he RMAd and the replacement died just outside the 2 year warranty. Took it apart but the Seagate HDD inside couldn't be detected by the BIOS. He since bought 2 x WD MyBook and have been boasting about their stability. Don't ask me, I'd rather just use internal HDDs and NAS. And even so, I still encountered a DOA WD Green CCTV. Managed to get it exchanged.

Actually Hitachi is still pretty much alive even after being bought over by WD 2 years ago. Head over to storagereview for all their recent consumer HDDs releases. Its just that the distributor in Malaysia sucks big time. Seagate has been selling 6TB desktop HDDs in the US. It will be awhile before they are available here. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822178520. Give it until Q2 next year for the 6TB consumer HDDs to come down in price.

This post has been edited by mrbob: Aug 15 2014, 04:40 PM