better upgrade your seagate 500GB to seagate 1TB. make sure it is single platter. major improvement on read/write speed since size increase with sector become small on the same platter size

it is not because of "bigger size". it is because of the sector on a platter become more smaller. access time will become short. thats why it has improvement in r/w speed, i think.


i think so. when they acquire maxtor, we can see they make their drive less heat

i use seagate ST3500418AS (single platter drive) and running 2 years 7 months and several days. when i says running, it spinning with that amount of time. never fail me at all. with proper handling, screw it properly inside casing and proper air flow (maintain temperature around 33-38c)

now i am using ST1000DM003, single platter but double size from previous drive

bottom line, people having bad luck does not mean that you will fall in the same situation too

tick2 sound happen when hdd lost power while its needle accessing the disk either read/write. or you simply reset the pc while hdd is busy. better get a ups if your pc are 24/7.

already test booting ws08r2 using this hard disk and get 6-7 seconds faster than 500GB version. of course, still cannot challenge SSD, even with the old 250MB/s model

at some person in some forum. i do not want to tell who because i am not proud of him/her. rude and do not know how to say THANK YOU after sell something. pathetic.

but this kind of model ST1000DM003 already available in the market and most shops already has stock. you need to see the model number, and it is thin because using 1 platter.

This post has been edited by mohdazuan: May 8 2012, 01:56 PM

if you ask about the performance, it get write increase from 120++ MB/s to 180++ MB/s
if you ask about reliability, i can say, i am trust with seagate. i own seagate 500GB (the 1st ATTO screenshot was my 500GB) and bought since sept 2009, spinning & running for 2 years 7 months and several days.
to answer your question, yes, it is reliable.

right, i do monitor my s.m.a.r.t value using a software. thats how i get the duration.

you can see by its thickness. if it is about half inch, it is single platter. if it is almost 1 inch, then it is an old 1TB version which has 2 platter of 500GB. but if it is thin like half inch, then get the 64MB because of large cache it has.

when you say "running", is it total time of spinning? you may want to check your s.m.a.r.t data

...and again, is your hdd running almost 3 years or just spinning less than a year in 3 years duration? i bought my hdd @ 2008 and it is 4 years old, but spinning time just 2 years and 7 months and several days

i maybe agree with you. i has seagate bigfoot which is suit by its name, because it is large
and still operating

it is because (maybe) they want to clear old stock. 3TB model that you saw maybe based on 750GB per platter technology, means the hard drive has 4 platter. right now they already has 3TB using 3 platter where 1 platter = 1GB.
check the serial number to know which model it is.

http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Seagate-Barracuda-3TB-Review/

that is seagate 3TB with 3 platter of 1TB and the serial number ST3000DM001

i know that. i prefer n00b rather than blur last time i taught them how to read the serial. for example ST3500418AS, 500 is size, 1 is a number of platter.

conclusion, you need to look at the number by yourself. by looking at the thickness of the case, we can know whether it has 1,2,3 or 4 platter. for example, single platter drive only about 1/2 inch of its thickness. 2 platter, almost 1 inch, 3 platter ngam2 1 inch and so on.

did you mean "external" or "portable"?

if external, you can see this: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/914...rnal_hard_drive

review said it is the fastest. features that need to be looking at such as spinning speed, how many platter it has and its size, which port they use

for example, 7200rpm is fast compare to 5200rpm. USB 3.0 is fast compare to USB 2.0
if you can get E-SATA external/portable hdd, it is better than USB because you will get the exact speed of normal internal drive, but it will need seperate power supply. unless you have hdd dock like -> THIS which can be place at your cd/dvdrom bay.

you want USB portable drive or E-SATA portable drive?

http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=440

download http://wdc.com/wdproducts/library/?id=247&type=49 untuk keterangan lanjut.
price around < rm 300++ in local price, i think.

sometime SATA controller, bad sata cable can caused that "warning". sometime it is not because of SATA cable connected to hard drive, but a SATA cable connected to your cd/dvd drive. this caused SATA controller become like this -> and SMART logged the error as UDMA CRC.

check your cable and other device connected to the SATA. pull out your cd/dvd drive, just leave hard disk, run the text again. if same "warning" appear, change the SATA cable.

they just break 1TB barrier for single platter. maybe in 10 years they will be able to cramp 3TB sector into a single platter
last time they made 3TB hdd with 4 platter which every plates sized about 750GB. since 1TB per platter available in the market, 3TB with 3 platters should be available too.

a thin one is using 1 platter while a thick one maybe using 2 or 3. right now there is only 1TB 3.5" using single platter, which means is for desktop. for 2.5" single platter is only 500GB at the moment. your notebook hdd bay only can fit a single platter 2.5" hdd.

it is ST1000DM003 and not 001. available since april 2012. last time i bought around 300++. it should be 200 something right now. it is single platter 1TB. ST3000DM001 is 1TB per platter x3. so it has 3 platter with size of 3TB.