Do you guys think it is going to take long? If supply is short means sales is low too. Then how those HDD manufacturer makes money and survive?

I see. Thank you very much for the information.

How long do these bad sector RMA's usually take?

I missing Sansung awesome HDD! Bestest cool performance and mostest value for money!

Now I looking for a bigger version of HD130SJ in 2TB 7200rpm version...any suggestion? anyone?

Thanks for the link!
Awesome info.
This drive is now called the Seagate ST2000DL004 as well as the Samsung HD204UI

Still Seagate changes its major Barracuda line to 1 year warranty sucks.
Seagate warranty is awesome, better than WD you have to pay for pickup service after 6 months if you opt not to send it to Singapore yourself.

2tb for rm400?!.....no way

looking for hd 204UI above one

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Added on April 11, 2012, 10:22 pmhd 103sj and hd 204ui is the most reliable hdd imo still use now and shinning

may be depend on luck too?

arrrgggg....very few sellers in LYN knows about this model.

you just bought the hd 204ui?
where and how much?

actually Seagate external 2.5" (the cheapest model) was selling at RM299 not long ago at mid-valley pc fair... regret didn't buy that time 

No idea which model but it's 7200RPM. Haven't bought it yet.
BTW the price has dropped by RM10 according to today's pricelist! RM529

3TB/3 = RM173 seems about the right price.

But I would much prefer multiple drives for reliability if 1 of them fail = 1TB data gone, not 3TB

It isn't the most reliable storage mechanism. While tape or optical media is stored offline, you wouldn't know if they get damaged by a bad storage environment or self-degradation (optical media) or not. I have a number of friends whose anime or video collection burned to DVDs has self-destructed since they last burned it a decade ago.

The most reliable storage mechanism is a live and highly redundant RAID array, where you can detect failures and replace unusable HDDs as needed.

Furthermore, not only you are assured of data availability, you also have instantaneous random access to any of your data. It is something that both tape and optical media cannot provide, as you will need to locate the appropriate tape or optical media and load them before you can access them. Again, once burned to DVDs, it is extremely rare to see anyone going through the effort of locating and loading them into DVD-ROMs and watch the contents at a whim.

CDs are actually much more suitable than DVDs and Blu-ray for long term storage, because their data pits are many times larger and it will take that much longer for oxidation to erase these pits. Of course, you have to pay for all the extra discs, burn 7x more discs, and store 7x more discs than you would in DVDs.

For corporate, it is probably more due to tradition and conservatism that they use tape backups. Or perhaps they don't really plan to touch the tape backups ever again once they are created and perhaps don't really care if data is lost. Active RAID storage for pure backup purposes that are not likely to be used at all would simply incur more cost than off-line tape storage.
Iianm, currently there are no hybrid drives that have 30GB of NAND and 500GB in platters.