Yep, I mentioned this to you a couple weeks ago. It should be on a downward trend before GST and further inflation hits.


You can find the discussion on this issue in previous posts. Just as a recap - if just use for storage, go for WD Green. Warranty 2 yrs.

WD Red and Purple are best suited for RAID arrays since they have TLER feature to help stay online in the array. Warranty 3 yrs.

WD AV Green, SG SV35 and Surveillance could be better suited for 24/7 video streaming or heavy write applications. Warranty 3 yrs.







This post has been edited by mrbob: Oct 21 2014, 03:57 PM

Have you tried booting Linux on the Microserver to see if you can format them? The main cold-swap bays should be able to support the 6TB HDDs.

yea. you mentioned to me before, just wanna some confirmations on that,
as last time discussion about the data "retrievability" of WD's My Passport Ultra and SG's Backup Slim Plus shows that SG's Backup Slim Plus have separate USB controller which allows the data in the hdd to be retrieved should anything happened to the controller,

and at that time, only found garage sellers selling 1TB of Backup Slim Plus and none selling 2TB variant, was thinking have to wait longer....
but my visit to digital mall last week proved that 2TB are already selling (maybe online sellers havent update their catalogue )


going to get myself at least 2 new ext hdd before next year's April's Fool, else.... really is a fool....
so far going to go for SG's Backup Slim Plus, but it is always not a wrong move to ask first sifu sifu here for advice before going for the jump

If planning to buy anything from PC/IT Fairs, be careful to buy from reputable shops and don't get con.


https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2309310/

da fuq..... this one..... i speechless.... like this also can???

saw wd release new 750gb black 2.5' hdd, hope lowyat will bring it in asap, the model is WD7500BPKX, height is 9.5mm

The biggest capacity SATA3 hdd is 2TB ?

This post has been edited by chinkw1: Nov 10 2014, 09:25 AM

I still trust optical media more then hard drives. If a hard drive dies you loose so much stuff. If a few discs become unreadable you lose some stuff.

That is why we have backups. CDs and DVDs are cheap but storage size abit limited. Waiting for BR-RW to come down

hi Mrbob,

i m looking for hdd , but don want WD black that kind of price. looking for 1tb or 2tb hdd for storage purpose - store video file , music and etc . not for installing OS.
I really get stuck .
Seagate / WD / hitachi / samsung , which brand i should go ?
which brand is more reliable from ur experience?
WD green 2tb quite cheap, but not so reliable & high failure rate right ? or go for seagate ?

thank you in advance Pro:)

Just go and get the WD10EZEX, durable and does what you want it to do.

Ditto to menj's call, my preference would be WD Blue 1TB for low-entry-cost standard use. Above 1TB *storage only* go for WD Green. Other colours have their own specific purpose which have been discussed in the previous posts.



Although forumers have different preference due to their experience with WD and SG, the following 3 elements - heat, shock/vibration and power can greatly influence the durability and health of HDDs. Look at the following posts.



This post has been edited by mrbob: Nov 28 2014, 01:52 PM

Bought a WD Purple internal 3TB SATA HDD.

But when view in Disk Management or other software eg paragon partition manager from Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit on different computers, i can only see 2TB, the other 1TB is missing. I see from google there should be 1TB unallocated, but I don't see it at all. I tried using various partition and data recovery software but nothing fixed.

Anyone knows solution?

not sure of this helps

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581408

Erm, my Windows 7 has no issue on several 3TBs, perhaps you should check if your BIOS able to locate the 3000 GB or not?
Disk Management should able to see 27xx GB unallocated, should use GPT when initialize.

FYI I also has the 3TB purple.

Just bought a new Seagate SSHD 1TB yesterday as a timely upgrade to my old WD Blue HDD. I find the performance upgrade for that little money as compared to a new CPU/MOBO/RAM as 3X savings.
Happy camper here. Should have done it much sooner.
Casual but advanced user, no gaming or heavy use. Still on this trusty Asus/C2D E8400/4GB/Win7 pro/Micro ATX PC (considered bare minumum?)
I think its the best upgrade at this price.

This post has been edited by bsl555: Dec 7 2014, 04:30 PM

Glad you made that jump... this is for your desktop?

Yes, its for my desktop...work, surfing, general..thats about it.
I needed another HDD anyhow..old one(not too old actually) now as primary backup.
No regrets for the price!..

How much did you get it for and where?

RM250 nett at Jayacom, Sect 14 PJ Digital Mall.
Low Yat Plaza could be cheaper I'm unsure. More expensive for me to drive all the way there and back..no point.
Checked with other shops, ALLIT, and AOne...no stock of desktop model.
My trend is I replace or upgrade HDD once in 5-6 years, but this higher performance Hybrid HD was too hard to resist. Solid State HDD is far too expensive at this time.
Put it this way, its a nice upgrade, something like from one cpu level to another 1 or 2 up. Its not like lightning speed.

This post has been edited by bsl555: Dec 12 2014, 06:45 PM