the price comparable if u take 1Tb x 3 unit ( before thai flood price)= 1 3Tb x unit (current market price)...to be fair the price quite high if compare to before thai flood price 2Tb which is RM 250 for samsung drive

QUOTE(24 July 2010 price around shop @ Compu-zone, Jayacom, The Hub)
Samsung F3 1TB 184-195
Samsung EcoGreen 1.5TB 250
Samsung EcoGreen 2TB 360

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c-zone list the samsung 2tb at RM260!

Not too bad isn't it? Only at Viewnet!

This 3Tb Seagate is wat model number and 7200rpm? 64GB?

I feel something fishy there......
There were once a period when the HDD failure rate hike up and few companies reduce the warranty period, around 2003 if no mistaken.

it looks to me the price of 1TB are still very high.

hopes of HDD falling back to 170 seems pretty damn hard.

Yesterday I went to LYPlaza, several shop are now selling 3TB at RM499!

I sent RMA for my WD scorpio blue 500gb. after 1 month, they give me 750gb.

eh if my pc dun have usb 3.0 will i able to use the 3.0 usb external ?

Anyone knows the model number for 3TB drives for Seagate and WD selling in lowyat.

I need to know how many platters inside those drives.

is this the best model in 3TB range? i saw you grab 2 i was curious coz im planning to get 1 myself. actually for storage purpose for my picture and video was aimming at WD 3TB but saw you grab 2 seagate so wan ask lo

Performance? Seagate Barracuda

The fastest 3.5” high-capacity desktop hard drive in this round-up is Seagate’s new 3 TB Barracuda (ST3000DM001). It offers almost 200 MB/s sequential read performance, similar write speeds, and it runs relatively coolly thanks to its three-platter design.

However, Seagate didn't design this Barracuda for 24/7 operation. If you need higher availability, you'll want to check out Seagate’s Barracuda XT or Hitachi's Deskstar 7K3000. Both are five-platter designs, robust, and still fast enough for video editing or video surveillance servers. Three terabyte hard drives are probably the best compromise between capacity and cost, as 2 TB disks might not always be big enough and 4 TB models are still very expensive.

Prices for hard drives are most definitely on the increase these days due to shortages, and that issue is expected to continue (though it may abate somewhat) through 2012. Costs for HDDs are also not especially consistent from vendor to vendor at the moment. However, we did find the Barracuda 3TB for $229 in multiple places, which is frankly a good deal right now for the performance and capacity the drive offers.

Another factor to consider when making a purchasing decision, especially with a device like a mechanical hard drive that could eventually fail, is the warranty. Seagate used to offer a lengthy 5-year warranty, but this Barracuda 3TB has just a 2-year warranty. (The Hitachi Deskstar 3TB we put up against it has a 3-year warranty.)

The bottom line, though, is that other than the 3TB Hitachi Deskstars, there just isn’t much competition for the Barracuda 3TB. For the features and performance you get with this drive at the current price, it just might be your best bet for a 3TB monster.

Need some urgent help here.
My mom recently bought a WD Passport 1TB.
I helped her to format her laptop and back up everything important in that HDD.
Everything was good, all files accessible without any trouble until today.
She couldn't see the drive from My Computer.
So I checked for her, I checked device manager, the HDD is detected but it's not working.
Disk Management detected but with error.
I stick my ear to the HDD and I can hear some spinning follow by "siren" (more like error sound - ****spin****dngg**dngg** ) something like that. Need urgent help.

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Added on May 23, 2012, 2:56 pm**LED LIGHT ON**

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Added on May 23, 2012, 2:56 pmUSB connected sound was on too

No failure, tried. It didn't even test. I think around 2 second it says "passed" or something like that. Did that yesterday.

ru referring to 2.5" 1tb hdd? if u do, mind telling which shop selling it for RM270? wanna go to d shop & buy . d cheapest so far i found in lyp RM319 (wd scorpio blue 1tb).

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Added on June 4, 2012, 5:04 pm

Hiyi bro, hows your seagate 3TB going?        

http://seagate.com/support/downloads/beyond-2tb/
Until recently, using a hard drive larger than about 2.1TB has been difficult from
a technical perspective. Back in the early 1980s when many of the fundamental
hardware and software designs for computers were created, no one could fathom
a hard drive approaching even 1TB, so limiting the logical block address (LBA)
range to 2.1TB was thought to be more than adequate. As a result, operating
systems, BIOS controllers, host interface drivers and device drivers have used th
same basic limitation of 2.1TB.

Newer versions of Windows (Windows Vista and Windows 7), when combined
with a new BIOS called UEFI and when configured correctly, have the native
capability of using hard drives larger than 2.1TB. The problem, however, is that
UEFI BIOS systems are less prevalent and more expensive than legacy PC
BIOS systems. Also, Windows XP systems still represent a sizable portion of
the installed base. So what do you do if you want to use one of the new
high-capacity hard drives coming to market that exceeds this 2.1TB limit?
Seagate has the answer.

Seagate has broken the 2.1TB barrier by developing a creative solution which
allows you to utilize all of your hard drive capacity over two or more partitions
when the drive is larger than 2.1TB. The new Seagate® Barracuda® XT 3TB hard
drive has been released, and it includes free access to our updated Seagate
DiscWizard™software. This newest version of the popular hard drive utility from
Seagate now includes functionality that allows you to easily configure a virtual
device driver to access all of your hard drive capacity.

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

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

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

Pros

Almost 200MB/s sequential transfer speeds
Very good performance in our HTPC benchmark
Improved power efficiency
Cons

Struggled with the read-intensive Gaming benchmark
Bottom Line

Overall, the new 3TB Barracuda moves in the right direction and certainly whets our appetite for upcoming higher capacity hard drives based on 1TB platters. It offers faster speeds than the prior version through most of our benchmarks and is many ways is the fastest 7200RPM 3TB 3.5" hard drive on the market. Couple that with the improved power profile and Seagate has a great option for those craving capacity and performance from a hard drive.

So which maker has as high as 4TB and above hdd atm?