guys, i hv a question. izit possible to hv 2 raid arrays using mobo onboard raid controller ? heres d thing, i hv a mobo dat capable of raid0/1/5/10 & has 6 sata ports (2 sata3 & 4 sata2). i tot of building my rig as:
- port 0+1 = raid0 (for OS)
- port 2+3+4+5 = raid10 (for data storage)
really hope raid sifu cud help me here. tengs!

hi all,

i guess i am far off the current hardware scene . or its just too many things for me to absorb...

anyway, got a few question to ask, recently i bought a 2.5" 1TB HDD... but I couldnt install it into my laptop because its too thick...

went back to ask the shop, they said there is no such thing as too thick etc etc, a lot of "ding-dongs" later, i got a free external cover for my HDD, went back home, and i found out i couldnt get it installed properly as well, now i am using it "naked"...

i attached the picture of the HDD with my current original one side by side. Left side is the factory setup HDD, right side is the one i just bought. clearly its thicker.



Question now,
1. it there any 1TB HDD that is suitable to be installed into my laptop? please recommend.
2. if i were to go to a computer shop to buy one, is there any info on the spec sheet that i should be aware of to make the correct purchase?
3. if there is no 1TB drives for my size, what is the largest capacity that i could have?


sellers here, please dont hesitate to give me a price quote, provived that you are 100% sure its the right thing for my laptop.

my laptop model is
Acer Aspire 4730Z
Currently its running on 250GB Hitachi HDD.

thanks guys,

This post has been edited by craziechild: Jun 5 2012, 09:51 AM

Oh! PCDepot not at LYP??? sori bro mistake here
really hope those peoples wouldnt do such a thing, i rmb few years back where they mistakenly put the spoiled HDD and sell it as NEW ones. After many people bring it back they will said is manufactory problems Tricky!

a thin one is using 1 platter while a thick one maybe using 2 or 3. right now there is only 1TB 3.5" using single platter, which means is for desktop. for 2.5" single platter is only 500GB at the moment. your notebook hdd bay only can fit a single platter 2.5" hdd.

By the way, has SSD development slowed down the capactive hard disk development? Because nowadays I don't see the hard disk sizes increasing so fast like time...

THIS? it's 12.5mm thick
you should get the 9.5mm thick like THIS

thanks for the feedback

My oh my... from Jayacom's latest pricelist:

Seagate 3TB = RM478
WD Green 3TB = RM475

seem cheaper than viewnet price list ler.

liddat next week I go buy from them....(drop another RM10?)

BTW the seagate RPM is how much and what's the model number?

7200RPM. ST3000DM001
Like I said before, this Seagate 3TB is the 'new' 3TB version of the popular Samsung HD103SJ.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/4tb-3tb-hdd,3183-16.html

Many many thanks!
but....However, Seagate didn't design this Barracuda for 24/7 operation.

What, you're gonna use it for CCTV or something?
Here's another review:
http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_barra...ers_st3000dm001


Enough poison?

if it uses the spinpoint "genes", than not bad la. Hmm, last time when I had a seagate it gets a lil noisy when got activity (tick tick sound)

putting them in a 24/7 dl media server.

Just disable any "power-saving" features and the drive will run in 24/7 mode.
Problem solved.

I dunno how to disable "power-saving" features.

if your machine is running 24/7 and busy read/write to the HDD all the time then you don't have to worry about the "power-saving" being activated, its only activate when it's idle for more than a certain amount of time, normally from 5 to 10 minutes, it'll spin down to save power.
My 24/7 download server also has a WDC Green 1TB running for months now, and the operation is of course 24/7 read/write so it'll never spin down and the temperature is quite high compare to the Seagate 500GB running at 7,200rpm, higher by about 1~3 degree celcius.

Thanks for the info.
I had a few WD green running in a 24/7 server before the arrival of HD103SJ. I thought my rig got not enough fans or config wrong. Stupiak WD!
Yup yup WD Green super hot and performance sux to the max when compare to samsung.
Next week I go try a few 3TB Barracuda

maybe u can consider the wd enterprise raid edition sata hdd, me also using it 24/7, so far okie.