Anyone using WD80EFZX HDD as usual desktop drive? Seems nice but the noise from youtube videos I watched seems worrying. Some like those old delta fan with the fan edge hitting cables.

May i know any 1 using cctv HDD (skyhawk) for file storage in desktop? Since baracudda only 2 years, skyhawk 3 years warranty not much different compare to NAS extra Rm100 for same 4tb.
Thank you.

Depends on how often and how fast you want to use the file (watching movie, network fileshare for music or video files, game file) if just to park your video files, seldom use documents or pictures then cctv is good enough since the cctv speed is 5400 rpm while barracuda one is 7200rpm.

Already get Iron wolf 4TB. Thank you. Next willl try CCTV series.

Hows the noise during read/write? I read that and watch some youtube videos of the Ironwolf nas going jet plane since its a NAS/datacenter hardware compared to green/blue/barracuda series which would be in desktop.

As quiet as 5400RPM WD RED 3T, since iron wolf is 5900RPM all HDD is install in a corsair casing. Jump to Seagate due to WD 'series' a lot RMA this my 2Nd seagate Nas Drive thought like save some going CCTV(skyhawk) series but choose Nas series. But going to try next for skyhawk for next purchase.

I thought of going to buy a 2TB Western Digital Blue hard disk and what I
read here is WD hard disks are not as good as it used to be. How depressing.

Hi guys newbie here

I recently got this on my PC after it starting crashing after I reformatted my windows 10


I just need a favour here to tell me. Can this be fixed ? Is it means my HDD are as good as fried? I do hear a screeching sound at start of PC.

Thanks!!

bump, recently bought Toshiba 2TB 7200rpm HDD.

how this HDD fare? i heard they got low failure rate with backblaze stat.

Quite solid

Why no take 4TB

Now everything ultra HD space not enough liao

4TB exactly 2x of 2TB price.

better buy 2x 2TB. if HDD fail also lose 2TB only. (I actually got mirror my backup already)

Hi guys,

Need your advice.

I am currently looking for a HDD upgrade.

My current HDD is Western Digital 3.5" 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6 16MB cache - WD5000AAKX

Can recommend me a HDD to upgrade with my budget under RM200? And if worst come to worst, can buffer another RM50..

Thank you in advance!

Edit-
I found this forum https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4557588

But I'm not sure if it's worth the upgrade..

This post has been edited by zack_jr: Jun 28 2018, 07:37 AM

Hello guys,

I want to buy one more extra external HDD recently, looking for 4TB.

I did some research and found WD MyBook 4TB and Passport 4TB but the price different is quite a lot. Look around at Lazada found the MyBook is fetching RM6xx but Passport only around RM4xx.

So is there any difference between these two models? I only know MyBook need power adapter and Passport doesn’t.

My usage only copy data into it and keep, not going to plugging in all the time.

So could advice me which is better buy?

Thanks.

2TB is 4x jump

Ok what

Haha ok

usually it is better to buy enclousure + 2.5 HDD than buying those.

I plan to get 2-4TB 2.5" PMR (non-SMR) HDD.
The closest I can find is Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2TB, as usual, no one is selling the internal drive in Malaysia.

Some say it is enclosed in Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB STDR200010X. Have anyone shucked this specific drive before?
The M9T is also inside the Seagate 2TB Expansion, Seagate Backup Plus Fast 4TB and Samsung P3 Portable.

Any better suggestion?

This post has been edited by edmund_yung: Oct 8 2018, 07:47 AM

No matter how modern is the hard disk. Make sure it is 7200rpm. Since none of them makes 10000rpm or higher for consumers these days.

Manufacturers putting 5400-5900rpm now. WD Blue 2TB onwards is 5400rpm, Seagate Barracuda Compute 4TB is 5400rpm. Slower rpm means higher access time and slower sequential file copy.

Seagate's Roadmap Shows How We Can Expect 100 TB HDDs in 2025

Just to ask , any manufacturer guideline or warning of limit safe zone on a hard disk transfer perday ?
I create a thread but I doubt someone have knowledge to reply it.Hope Hardisk community here can give a few suggestion.

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=4687896

I read even some newly bought 1TB external hard disk , if transfer 1 shot of 500GB backup will even corrupt the hard disk.