caviar black? u mean black cover on the top? haha...my bad experience..whichever black case of the wd hdd will nvr perform good..nvr last more den 1 year..UNLESS RAPTOR...better look for those with silver case...

that's the old label..

now they use 3 colors label

green - slow, low power drive
blue - label color for caviar, caviar SE and caviar SE16
black - performance drive

http://www.wdbreakingnews.com/faqs/

This post has been edited by fariz: Oct 22 2008, 08:49 PM

Are there any difference in using a cheap RM20 and an expensive RM150 external enclosure? Most probably the more expensive enclosure is better at dissipating heat, but apart from that, will the life span of the hard disk be shorter or more risky if using a cheap enclosure? Will speed be different even if both are USB 2?

I just got my WD MyBook 1TB this afternoon. Just ran a diagnostic test using WD's own diagnostic tool.

Not even 30 minutes later...
Hell

This post has been edited by Crazy.SoT.Gila: Oct 23 2008, 11:03 PM

most likely bad product handling on reseller/distro side..

heck.. just send it back for an exchange

This post has been edited by jinaun: Oct 23 2008, 11:05 PM

Hopefully won't take long. Bloody waited for this for more than a week. Not to mention I need it to store my data from my previous faulty HDD that I am owing to Dell now

I think you can change it 1 to 1 for the first week of purchase.Good luck.

Ah, is it? Hopefully so. Guess I'll pay the retailer a visit tomorrow.

if longer then tat,u can do rma service from the website

But according to the site, need 3 weeks By then I already back at hometown

lol..den too bad for u..ahaha

Bloody unlucky Gonna stay away from WD for future purchases

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Added on October 24, 2008, 7:40 amGah. I ran a CHKDSK /R and no bad sectors were detected. Now running WD's diagnostics again; 1 hour into the test, it's still going on

Similar case to my current internal HDD - chkdsk detects 4kb on bad sector, Dell's diagnostics pick up nothing GAH!

This post has been edited by Crazy.SoT.Gila: Oct 24 2008, 07:40 AM

thought id share this with everyone....

last week i sent a dead seagate HDD for RMA directly to the distro in summit subang.....

today i received the replacement hdd...



i LOVE the way they packed the HDD.... really makes me feel secure about the HDD...



not only that... service was damn fast too about 1-2 weeks only... plus with the packaging, it gives me even more confidence to buy Seagate HDDs



EDIT: added quote tags to avoid pic quoters

This post has been edited by mADmAN: Oct 25 2008, 03:31 AM

same question again...did anyone help me to find out Is Seagate 1.5TB available in Lowyat at the moment?? I need to get one of this in this few days, I saw it listed in their price list, but no sure they got stock or not... can Someone help me to find out please....many many THanks.

so u saw it in the pricelist???

which means u have the shop phone number.....

so call them and ask

nice packaging, ai.... i bought WD640 due to price/perfomance

although i more like Seagate

c-zone selling it for RM700

yupz thats very cool indeed... i prefer seagate too... they really put a lot of effort... and is it still the 5 years warranty thing?

Isn't that Western Digital also providing such similar anti-shock packaging when they send back a HDD to customer after RMA?

I did not do any RMA before *touchwood * but I remember once I bought a 2nd hand HDD from a forumer and he passed to me inside a Western Digital RMA packaging like the one mADmAN posted

yup, still 5yr wrty but seagate normal series got very high failure, recomend go for sv or es series.