Seagate probably now owns the Samsung factories which produces the Samsung HDDs. I do not know how Seagate is handling their ex-Samsung properties or their future plans. Although we could guess from how Seagate handled their previous acquisitions, like Maxtor.
It shouldn't be abnormally long. I suggest that you follow up with your seller, Samsung and Seagate to make sure that your HDD wasn't lost in a SNAFU. Please don't be surprised if Samsung simply redirects you to Seagate, as the buck should stop there.
It is probably because your operating system decided to turn off unused HDDs to save power. This happens if your Power Options (in the advanced configuration) is told that it may turn off your HDDs if they were idle for X amount of time. You can 'fix' this by increasing the amount of idle time or tell your power configuration to never turn off your HDDs. This feature can actually be useful if you have a lot of HDDs and you rarely use some of them.
From what I had read, Samsung service centres now don't entertain Samsung HDD RMAs. Was this information false?

If you're asking about reliability, I doubt that this event will significantly change it. And on the small chance that it does, we're not likely to see any changes for a couple of months at the least. Assuming that there is valuable technology to assimilate, it will take WD time to integrate Hitachi's technology.

With this exchange, all three will be somewhat equal in the HDD business. Toshiba will gain the ability to compete in the 3.5" market.
Perhaps it is because the Samsung acquisition was completed first. Or perhaps more money exchanged hands in the Samsung deal.

yah i know last year 1tb also can get 2xx too
any news
when Thailand flood finish no more floods like that
i want hdd price cheap normail so when Thailand good factory fixed
restore factory thailand fixed 100% so when
i am still waiting still no news

I already forget the software name
but here is a thing

A laptop hdd,
it can't be read and asked to be reformated but still fail to do so even using cmd

is there any hope for this?

icic, if they being bought by WD, means next time warranty will go back to WD, arrr... hate WD

tq for your answer

Then we'll just have to poison them by making them experience the difference. The addiction to speed might be enough to get them to open their wallets.

For NAS or RAID duties, it probably is worth it.

Good morning guys !

new in LYN forum here.

Would like to know what you guys think about Transcend Ext. HDD 1TB StoreJet 25H3P or 25M3 ? Reliable ?

Also comparison of Transcend and WD/Seagate Ext HDD ?

For RM 320, i can get same capacity of 1TB and USB 3.0 but Transcend has anti-shock (drop tested) whereas WD/Seagate does not have.

Pls help.

Thank you very much !

can rekomen the brand ah?
btw...any1 got their hands on the WD Red?

hows the performance? this WD red target NAS storage user....how it compare to green?

The Red is anytime better than the Green. For NAS usage, I'll avoid it like a plague.

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.
Not required. The Red is already built for NAS environment albeit only for home and small office/home office usage.
It used to be Hitachi but at the moment there's only Seagate and WD with very little involvement from Toshiba to carry on what's left off Hitachi. If you want Seagate's reliable line of drives, look at their Constellation series. For WD, it's their Black series or their RE4 series. Both are expensive but reliable.

But then again if you're looking at storing and keeping the hardisk locked away after one time use, any decent brand would be fine.
Hardisk would be fine for long term storage if you take into consideration the price per GB and the speed. Tape is expensive while still slow.

If the data is very important, make an exact copy of your backup in another hardisk and keep it somewhere else. From time to time, take the hardisk out and check the files at random to see if the hardisk is ok.

People are actually backing up their Blurays onto hardisk. What does that tell you? 

Actually, the choice to use RE4 or Black depends on whether you use it with RAID or standalone. The RE4 is specifically for use with RAID array and if you're not going to use RAID, Black series is better. If you use the RE4 as a standalone drive, they have very short write recovery times (TLER = 7 seconds), which can result in data corruption if they not used with a write caching RAID controller. The short write recovery times also ensure that the drives would never get into a lock up for long time for the RAID controller to register an error and subsequently drop them out of the array.

Black series is RE4 with longer TLER (approx 180 seconds). Having said that, a lot od people use the Black series in RAID arrays and don't encounter problems.
Yeah, I'm aware that current geenration 5400 rpm drives are speedy. I'm actually using 8 x 2TB Samsung HD204UI and I love them because it's silent and they are as fast as (if not faster than) other 7200 rpm drives. The thing is I plan to go beyond 1Gb/s in the near future and it would be nice if the drives could cope. Having said that, I think the Red in a RAID array would still able to cope beyond Gigabit. Aiming for 300 to 400 MB/s transfer speeds in a RAID array.
Agreed. But I think it's not exactly 2 times the price. Black series is generally about 40% more expensive than Red. 5 years vs 3 years warranty makes the difference too.
Sorry. No idea. I'm guessing it's much shorter like the RE4 (TLER = 7 seconds).

The Seagate HDD isn't designed for NAS usage.
The Toshiba HDD isn't designed for NAS usage.

If you want to buy a HDD for NAS, the WD Red is better. The WD Red also has better paper specifications than Toshiba's HDD.

Funnily enough, the WD Red is also superior to the WD Green in all respects, including power consumption, on paper. Maybe it is due to the platter technology used in the currently available models.

RM379 is for what capacity? I just bought a WD red 3TB for RM549 at queensbay mall.