well, i think the price for hdd is steadily dropping albeit not "fast" as you would anticipate,

last year i bought a WD My Passport 2TB for 429, and now i bought a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB for 360

But now that i saw Samsung launching their first ext SSD 1TB for almost 2k+, I am praying so damn hard for it to drop from heaven's price down to Earthlings' reachable price 

Have you been tracking the exchange market? This morning - MYR 1.00 = USD 0.279954... down from USD 0.31776 on 28 Aug 2014, that's over 12% loss. It would be worse had BNM didn't intervene. Plus the effect of *real* inflation in Malaysia, any supposed savings have gone up in smoke. Not expecting situation to improve next quarter when GST hits. 

BTW, be careful when you deal with Lazada. Just make sure you get the full warranty when dealing with them.
Crystaldiskinfo should show the internal HDD model.

actually what is it about Lazada? They have shady sellers???   

With regards to Lazada, no need to worry since getting Seagate products. Seagate manages their own warranty without the intervention from vendors. Should be fine for the other stuffs that you buy that doesn't spoil so easily. Otherwise have to take care of the warranty yourself.

One example of what not to buy from them -

http://www.dell.com/my/p/popular-laptop-de...dhs1&redirect=1

oh.... then it is pretty much like you buy stuff off Amazon? where claiming warranty is on your own?   

Basically its normal HDD with a big cache built into it to boost the HDD performance. For Seagate SSHD, this is a 8GB NAND. Price sits between SSD and HDD.

You can read more about it here - http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_desktop_sshd_review

I get all and that, but is the Seagate SSHD the only one that is worth it, or is there something better in the horizon (besides a SSD, of course) ?

Yes they should but that would also mean that you need to put in different type HDD controller to manage the larger NAND cache. Currently LSI and Marvell are the only ones I know in 2013 making these controllers. These SSHDs haven't gotten its chance to shine yet as consumers have yet to know the performance benefits.

WD Element, later tonight I'll put a screenshot..

Well unfortunately not such an easy thing to do, LSI (that makes the popular flash Sandforce controllers) was bought over by Seagate last year. If they play their cards right, they could gain the lead in the flash storage market.

Also, to anyone who recommends me a Lazada or IPMart deal, please reconsider it; hearing the horror stories on /k are killing me.

Would be bloody glad to know if anyone can find me these deals