if i do that, would it cost me greatly??

ahhh, rather lose that data then spend some money when i can buy two 2TB at the same price..

They will only test if the HDD is good or not. They will not do data recovery. Testing and advice is a free service in my experience, but there are strings.

• Some external HDDs have their warranties void if you open the casing. You technically lose your right to a free warranty replacement if this is the case.
  
• Some external HDDs uses non-standard connectors. I have come across one external HDD that had its built-in standard SATA connectors replaced with USB connectors, this allows a small external case, but you're out of luck if the USB is damaged.
  

A 2TB HDD now costs about RM400.

But yes, most people tend to give up on the data than to pay for expensive and uncertain data recovery; data recovery is not guaranteed. It's much cheaper to buy two HDDs.

after heard ur advise.. i want to buy new HD
any advise.. im an extreme person, so i afraid if i slip my HD, it become unusable again.. any advice which is prefer brand??

after heard ur advise.. i want to buy new HD
any advise.. im an extreme person, so i afraid if i slip my HD, it become unusable again.. any advice which is prefer brand??

WD black;
NEVER go for WD green if afraid its reliability

If ruggedness is more important than capacity, how about an SSD?

Then again, SSDs are wasted if put in external casings.

If buying external HDDs, 2.5" HDDs have better toughness than 3.5" HDDs, but treating them as fragile items is still strongly recommended. Other than that, I have no specific HDD recommendations.

Both of my WD Green 1TBs have passed their third year of life. *touch wood*
Interpreting the data is difficult, especially as it doesn't seem to adhere to a single standard. This is why I don't read too deeply into the SMART data and so I haven't learned it. If you wish to learn, you'll have to look from other sources. Furthermore, a Google white-paper (linked on the first post of the topic) suggests that SMART data does not adequately predict impending HDD failures, making it less useful to learn.

i have woory Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB abit bad resuit 

pls explan me about it
what threshold
1tb threshold 6 if high number like 50 or 100 will be bad
0 mean very good ah

spin retry count current 100 and worst 100 threshold 97
both 100 and worst 100 same so be good or bad ???
threshold 97 good or bad ???

explan let say spin retry count current 100 and worst 250++ more then that mean both diffrent number resuit so be very bad right

Good news for all you mechanical drive freaks out there: the beleaguered and washed-out hard disk drive industry is on track to pull its head back above water in the second half of the year. Yay! Bad news for all you mechanical drive freaks out there: even though HDD output will fully catch up to previous levels, HDD prices are still going to stay above the "dirt cheap" range they were at before the Thailand floods.

The news comes courtesy of IDC, who says that "HDD vendors are taking advantage of this opportunity to reset prices and recover some of the excessive price erosion that began in 2009." Don't speak business-ease? Basically, HDD manufacturers will be taking a cue from the gas companies and keeping prices at a high level now that they know people will pay the premium. Hopefully they nudge down a bit from where they're at now, though. (We'd like to send our kids to college someday.)

John Rydning, IDC's hard drive guru, claims that the higher price points will let HDD manufacturers pump R&D cash into newfangled HDD technology, but the possibility of a more power-efficient hard disk two years down the line probably won't help to quell the hurt your wallet feels when you're trying to fill a NAS box today.

To be fair, though, HDDs were getting ridiculously cheap before the floods. What are your thoughts about the "reset HDD prices"? Is it a fair move, price gouging, or something in between?

explan let say spin retry count current 100 and worst 250++ more then that mean both diffrent number resuit so be very bad right

Just because they seem to be ridiculously cheap, doesn't mean they are ridiculously cheap. Until the manufacturers reveal the actual unit costs, I'm going to assume price gouging. Especially since they were willing to let the prices fall so far in the first place, that price gouging makes their investors happy because of larger profits, and Seagate has already indicated that they prefer to keep the prices high.

I'm pretty sure that the manufacturers could recoup some of their losses by selling them in large volume and cheaper price as opposed to small volume and higher price. As long as there is a steady drop in price, I wouldn't mind if they want to keep the prices steady for a while. If it remains constant for the next year or more, then they are shooting themselves in the foot. With the current price, their profit margin is huge. If they could sell it at the price before the flood, that would mean that their manufacturing costs aren't that high as no company would sell their product for less than what it needs to produce them.

but, if all the hdd manufacturers agrees to sell them at higher price, we as the consumers will have no choice. Of course, we will be putting of any purchase as long as possible. But there will come a time when the need arises and even at the higher price, we still have to get them.
It a matter of who will be able to wait it out....

I don't think they can come to an agreement that they should sell at this price which is higher. There exists a monopoly between the big players like Seagate and Western Digital but they are almost equal, not the 90/10 kind of  monopoly we would see with Intel/AMD. HDD vendors are still competing with each other and sooner or later they will reduce the price to cut each other.

They price it so high, it has a domino effect on other vendors as well. OEMs that make laptops would either have to profit less or pass down the costs to the consumer, both of which they do not want. They would surely want their profit to increase as well and passing down the costs would only make it more expensive and less likely for someone to buy it. SSDs with increasing capacity are posing a threat to HDDs and it is only a matter of time when we would reach to a point where a reasonably priced SSD at a certain capacity would be a better choice than a HDD, if they decide to be arrogant about it and peg the HDD price sky high.

It just matter of time to have a 240GB SSD below RM900.

RM769. Mushkin Callisto Deluxe SATA2. At Viewnet.

I think it is this one: Callisto deluxe 240GB Solid State Drive - MKNSSDCL240GB-DX, SF-1200 controller

Otherwise it may be this one: Callisto deluxe 25nm 240GB Solid State Drive - MKNSSDCL240GB-DX2, SF-1222 controller

The current SF controller version is SF-2281. The versions before SF-2281 were plagued with reports of BSODs. Do you feel lucky?

still not fixed the problem yet??

I do not know. I haven't heard of any news that all the bugs in the old SF controllers have been killed.

I read some review from guru3d they said there were no need worried about the sf controllers.

I thought people use SSD as their boot disk only, why you need 240GB?