It is around rm85 at lowyat plaza.

lookin for a 120 GB HDD..well..i need it for my assignment swt..soo if can list down the feature and infos...thx..>.<

In term of portable, what do you mean? That you want to bring around places all the time or just on occasion?

If you wanted something that is value for money and in the range of 500 - 1TB, then you only have 3.5" External HDD as your choice. I got myself the WD MyBook 1TB for about RM390+ which i feel is quite good. It should cost lesser i believe at the moment. I believe most, if not all are roughly the same as well.

However, do keep in mind if you wanted to bring it to places all the time, then 3.5" can be more troublesome. As you will need to bring along a bigger HDD (as compared to 2.5") as well as a power cord. And the WD MyBook comes with a glossy finish as well which might get scratched if you move around alot. I think there is a matt finish version by WD as well on the MyBook series but should cost slightly more.

Anyway, if you wanted portability, i still recommend 2.5" ones as you have a smaller package, and minus the power cord. But of course, price for 500GB 2.5" is roughly around the same as the 1TB 3.5" i believe at the moment. So, your choice here. In regards to the brands, i still think all of them are roughly the same. Just stick with those branded ones like WD, Seagate, Buffalo etc.

Thanks for the reply. I've bought a Buffalo Mini Station with 'Turbo USB' feature.
Reasons being:-
1) Higher transfer speed with the bundle software.
2) Higher shock resistant with the shock resistant chasis.
3) Wrap arpund usb for easier carrying around.
RM 375 for 500GB

Well, the thing about those "Faster USB speed" is that you need to install a certain bundle software which i am not really fond off But still, good purchase there

Hello juzz wanna ask ler. In term of performance, between Seagate Barracuda and western Digital black edition which 1 faster eh?

WD black faster than it.

I am considering to buy a external HDD. Which one is better?

1.buffalo ministation lite
2.WD passport
3.seagate freeagent
4.transcend storejet

I'm not sure about the other three, but the Seagate Freeagent 250GB is *very fast*. It reads at about 35MB/s, which is impressive for a USB hard disk.

how to make sure that it's that fast?
as long as if we check our motherboard support USB 2.0 then definitely fast?

Samsung F1 faster than WD Black Caviar ??

Hye Guys. want your opinion on hdd i want to buy. I read reviews that WD green is using only low consumption on power so good to save energy..n..

1- Is WD green 5400rpm 1tb is sufficient enough to store and watch movies/anime?

2- Any side effect if using green WD for running OS / heavy games?

I'm currently using WD green 640GB as my primary OS partition, so far so good, no major signs of slowdown whatsoever. maybe there's that slight difference compared to the WD blue or black version, but i doubt you'll really notice it.

As for storing movies/anime, it should do fine

How about ur write performance? mine is just 18mb/s write.

It isn't with me anymore so I'm unable to test

I just bought a transcend storejet 320GB portable hard drive but when i check the capacity after plugged in to my pc it only states 298GB.

Is this normal? where are the balance capacity?

Should be fine. I'm using 6x 1TB WD Caviar Green (most as data drives for audio/video storage, one as a OS drive) - no issues with it at all. My rigs run 24/7 folding.

Yes that's normal. It's all a matter of how you define 1MB as. HD manufacturers define 1GB = 1000MB, and 1MB = 1000KB, etc.. but operating systems like Windows use a different definition 1TB = 1024GB, 1GB = 1024MB (because computers are essentially binary machines, everything has to be a power of 2). In addition, once a disk is formatted, some space will be reserved for the OS to use.

Wikipedia

I used to participate in distributed computing efforts and I doubt that such a project like Folding@home would use the hard disk extensively enough for it to be a significant performance factor. As long as your processors are busy, you don't have a bottleneck problem.

The 1 TB 32 MB cache Caviar Green is much faster than older drives, because its 5,400 RPM handicap is eliminated by much higher data density. And even then, you only need 1 Mbit/s to 8 Mbit/s bandwidth speeds to watch anime or HD videos, whereas most drives are capable of delivering 240 to 800 Mbit/s. External USB 2.0 drives are bottlenecked to about 240 Mbit/s. As you can see, there is a huge margin for error. I wouldn't worry about performance for video, picture and audio storage.

Regarding performance for everything else, like gaming or OS, higher performing hard disks do have a statistical advantage. But you are likely to forget the performance difference between a 1 TB Caviar Green and a 1 TB Caviar Black in daily use.

Now, for an extra RM 50 to RM 60, the 1 TB Caviar Black does have advantages like longer warranty (5 years instead of 3) and better average performance. But there's a problem with long warranties. I recently sent RMA my nearly 3 year old 250 GB WD, but I got back a Seagate 250 GB because they no longer have 250 GB WDs in stock. I was hoping for an upgrade to a 320 GB WD, but oh well.

In my opinion, both the Green and the Black are viable choices so I would choose according to my preference, which is the Green for me.

This post has been edited by everling: Jun 15 2009, 02:23 AM

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