where can i get the latest price for hdd price in ly. is the pricelist at lowyat.net is the latest one?

I don't know if SSD is more reliable or not, but the price it is selling now is simply too expensive.

Is that extra speed worth so much money? I don't think so, personal opinion though.

They dun make 'em to last anymore!
My Seagate 80GB IDE hdd from 2002 is still functioning!

This make me think about SSD, able to last that long even with no moving parts?

Agree, however I mean the price gap between SSD and HDD, I cannot justify it by the speed difference.
The price gap is simply too large for people to get the SSD.

Which is a safer way of storing photos? In a HDD in a computer or an External HDD? Thanks.

Argh, ok. 4 HDD in total. Wow. Ok. Doomsday will kill all 4 copies sadly.
Anyway, WD3TB is reliable?

I purchased the Seagate Barracuda 2TB and 3TB yesterday. And my Windows is installed into an SSD I got yesterday. SSD is awesome. The HDD is so far so good too.

I'm doubtful about Seagate. Their warranty is only 1 year, which I think is too short for a HDD. I may not like warranties but having a warranty this short doesn't sound like they are confident with their product. Then again, I don't like WD Green drives very much with their power saving features but has 2 year warranty so it can be very indecisive on which to choose since we only have 2 companies left in the world manufacturing HDDs.

Nvm just checked its around the price of rm 380-400. Wonder if its worth the extra 80 bucks compared to green 

i have no idea on these things. so sad now. my all assignment that i had done is inside. and many memories photo. OMG. my HDD is Western Digital. where can repair?

Just a discussion, a "fall down" or "dropped" HDD, shouldn't be the data on the disk itself is still intact? or electromagnetism on the disk itself (that storing the data) will be loss on the disk due to the fall?

As I reckon, when the HDD is not in operation (when carried along), a dropped could means damage the mechanical part of the HDD, as head is parked during idle (non-operation), there shouldn't be any scratches on the disk.

Somehow my another HD204UI is dead, sigh... what a let down, and 1 whole year of anime downloads 
Recover half-way...   
Clicking sound..
Download HD204UI clicking sound
... even has some dancing rhythm to it
Recorded using Galaxy Note at 1 inch away from the HDD when running.

my WD element SE 750gb hdd is using usb 2.0 cable ...can i buy a same cable with usb 3.0 and use on it ?

am i able to plug the cable into my WE element 750gb hdd ? how about the performance ?

The problem with HDDs is that they can suddenly fail and all your "precious" goes to the grave with it. Unless you have two HDDs for redundancy (with identical data on both drives).

Actually, I'm also in a dilemma. Initially looking at 3TB drives but I heard that there will be some incompatibility problems with the Microserver. So now looking at 2TB variants. For the same price, I can either get the Hitachi 2TB or the WD Red. I believe warranty wise both are the same. The only thing that is pulling me back is the Red is 5400rpm while the Hitachi is 7200rpm.

just checked the RE4 price it is very expensive compare to Black. dilemma 
I am looking also at blu-ray disk, would the disc be durable for long term storage compare to hdd?

thx for the info.. was thinking to get wd red but many said that in NAS they would perform.. if only for single home use better try seagate 3tb... but 3 years warranty scheme would buy me in...

hello all sifu here.
just wanna ask, is Seagate Barracuda 2TB (ST2000DM001) is better than WD 2TB Caviar Red?

Hi, does Toshiba DT01ACA Series  suitable for NAS and which is better when compared with WD red.

Anyway, Samsung hardisk were also not specifically for NAS but runs reliably in RAID.

Well, in terms of performance Green should be still better. The reason why Red is better in power consumption, temperature, life time is due to NASware. Don't forget you are paying an extra RM50 on top of the Green drives, and most of the time the Red will spin at 5400 rpm (which contribute to lower power consumption as well)..

Lowest price i manage to find in Penang is RM379 at official WD outlets. For some reason, other distributors and computer shops are selling at a higher price. 

everling : i thought Green spins variably, can hit 7200 rpm if needed. Yeah when they get updated with platters in Red they should perform better than red. but i dont expect them to get the same firmware as the ones in Red

It's quite simple, really. Most of a drive's power is consumed by the motor that spins the disk inside the drive. Reduce the speed of the disk, and you reduce the amount of power required. However, Western Digital doesn't want to say that they're selling 5,400 RPM drives — those became second class in the desktop market years ago. Instead, they rate the drive's speed as "IntelliPower" and take pains to emphasize that there are other factors that affect performance.

Western Digital has caught a lot of flak for withholding the rotation speed of the Green Power, especially when the product was first launched and the marketing material listed the rotation speed as 5,400-7,200 RPM. This led some to speculate that the rotation speed changed dynamically during use — which would have been an impressive engineering feat had it been true. The reality is revealed by a sentence that Western Digital added to the description of IntelliPower: "For each GreenPower™ drive model, WD may use a different, invariable RPM." In other words, Western Digital reserves the right to release both 5,400 RPM and 7,200 RPM drives under the Green Power name — without telling you which are which.

We were able to confirm that our 750 GB Green Power had a spindle speed of 5,400 RPM by analyzing its sound spectrum. Why sound? Sound is vibration; the pitch of the sound corresponds to the frequency of the vibration. Hard drives vibrate at the speed of their motor, so they produce a noise at the same frequency as their rotation speed. Our sample had a sharp spike at exactly 90 Hz (cycles per second). Multiplying that number by 60 (to get cycles per minute) yielded a measured rotation speed of 5,400 RPM.

7s is quite short...that's what that's causing high LLC for green HD...

maybe i'll still use wdidle to change the settings for Red drives then...

I will be glad if WD just made it clear that its 5400rpm drives. I'm actually looking specifically 5400rpm, no more no less to plonk into my nas 

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