I am planning to get a 1TB Western Digital HDD. There are two types. One is normal and another one is black edition. Just wonder got any different other than 5 years warranty? Performance wise or reliability matter?

Yes and yes. You can see the benchmark at tomshardware.

SRI has the WD essentials 2TB for 899, you can rip it open (voids warranty thou).

i thought d newer 7200.12 onli has 16MB cache....

According to here - http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/...racuda_7200.12/
only 500gb has 16mb cache anything higher has 32mb

One question here...

Let say I have 5 different types of files - photos, music, movies, documents and applications.

Is it better to put them into 5 different folders or 5 different partitions in my external hdd ?

This post has been edited by tkh89: May 31 2009, 10:11 PM

i think 5 different folders should do. you're gonna have headache if you make 5 partitions, especially when you wanna keep stuff not categorized under those 5 types.

not a good idea , mayb 2 is enuf bcoz doc very small oni
i would split photo , musics and doc under 1
movies and app under 1

I will go for docs and photo in 1 partition, OS and apps in 1 partiotion, games on 1, and movies & music & other multimedia on another partition

I plan to get myself a portable harddisk. No idea at all what to get.

Purpose of using it will be to store picutures, music and videos.

Storage wise,I prefer the most cost effective capacity (In terms of RM per MB) . Any suggestion? 500MB or 1TB or any others

Transfer speed also I concern. Any relatioship between transfer speed and RPM? (Sorry for noob question)

Budget wise, any amount will do. As long as value for money. (Please don't treat this as 'no budget limit' thus suggest a super high end harddisk; 'value for money ' is the key words.)

thanks everyone for your suggestions...

u can go for segate freeagent go which is very worth it and got 5yr wrty ler.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've read some good review on this HDD.
Roughly sell at how much for various capacity?

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Added on June 2, 2009, 10:41 pmNobody?

This post has been edited by enriquelee: Jun 2 2009, 10:41 PM

Seagate Freeagent Go 2"5:
320GB = RM269
500GB = RM384

Price from Viewnet (31st May).

Wao 2TB era is near. 500GB will sounds too small very soon

Other than segate freeagent, any other recomendation?

how about the freeagent usb dock? anyone knows where to find that?

It depends on what you need actually. There are alot of brands out there nowadays. I have the WD Passport and its ok for me as well. The same as those which i bought the HDD and case seperately Buffalo seems to be a good brand as well.

i'm a noob in harddisk...

but i'm willing to buy a 500gb(or mayb 640gb) SATA desktop HDD~
i think i'll go for seagate or WD~

this's wat i heard from others:
1) now days all HDD is SATA 2... is that true?? SATA 2 faster than SATA~

2) all seagate 500gb 32mb buffer have been replace by 16mb~ no more 32mb for these days~ is that true??

I have posted my requirements at 'post #1030'
Any recomendation?
HDD also need firmware? I read somewhere Freeagent might have some firmware problem