they (seagate & western digital) need extra money so that they can build factory on the tibet range
thats why they still not dropping the price.
welcome to the world of capitalism. makes more money and lets the idiots (who buys) suffers!

3/4 years "spinning time" or bought since 3/4 years ago but using time is less than a month?
please show your S.M.A.R.T. screenshot or didn't happened

i use WD green over 2 years. when i said 2 years, i means 2 year of spinning time. and no bad luck at all.

people says it all about your hand
if your hand cursed, anything you touch will break

forget about harddisk price hike;

when will seagate 1TB single platter drive available in malaysia? i think they already release that product even though that "massive flood" caused their factory to be shutting down.

wow, and thats what we called major improvement of mechanical disk's technology. write speed increasing from 110++ to 180++

if they can make 2TB using single platter size, i guarantee it will be more fast, maybe can achieve 200++ since the sectors inside platter become more smaller.

i think when he says his hdd running for 2 years & several months, he means the total time of spinning. you can get that duration by checking the S.M.A.R.T. option. many hdd tools can read S.M.A.R.T. for example hddlife. you will get the exact working duration of your disk.

for example, i have maxtor 40GB which is 8 years old. but total time of usage just 7 months. means it only spin about 7 months of total time.
that is how people measure the realibility of hard disk. how long it can survive by spinning almost 24/day. not how long it can survive with on/off on/off 3-4 times a day

if your bios did not detect the hdd, probably your hdd is damaged.

mechanical hard disk is hot. it is normal. if you have front blower fan in your casing, it can reduce your hdd temp from 50 to 35-40.

whoaaaa... already has 6TB of storage, still need more?
i think you might want to buy internal hard disk, make it external by plug it to e-sata or drive bay. cheaper than external drive.

hope that you are not bought the fake one similar like this:
http://st.gsmarena.com/pics/11/04/fake-hdds/gsmarena_002.jpg

notebook are using 2.5" drive. you can upgrade to SSD. it will be soooooooooooo fast.

nice. the chirping is gone. before this i heard every several minutes!

the new firmware only programmed into a chip, data is inside a platter, so this procedure won't harmed your data.

buffalo is just "casing's brand". they are use some brands of hard disk, for example, samsung or hitachi or even western digital.

you need to know which hard disk were used

so it is toshiba. download the toshiba tools and do surface scan and whatsoever