so crazy,i back up my pc internal hdd,80GB.2 partition,each with 40 GB,and one portable 20GB hdd.
it took me about 20hour to finish backup!!!!!!!!

What happened? External HDD should be doing 30MB/s.

Maybe your mobo only support USB 1.1

(80GB + 20GB) / (20 hours * 3600 seconds) = 1.38 MB/s

Maybe it's USB 1.0? Other possibilities are very heavy file fragmentation and lots of tiny little files (they incur a huge performance cost).

i am not sure too.how to check it is usb 1.0 or usb 2.0.
i remember when i plug in my WD external hdd and portable hdd, it prompt out the ysb 2.0 speed on the right side menu(clock side).
beside that,my pc got alot of virus,and bloodly hell lag for almost 1year+.That's why i bought WD external hdd for backup,because i want to format my pc.

i using acer cpu,aspire sa85 model.

guys...i got a question. how do i erase a hdd back from ntfs/fat32 to RAW format?

i know darik's boot and nuke can do it but that would need me to boot from the cd and it'll need to fill the whole hdd with 00s to get it back to RAW.

so is there any way where i can do it quicker like through windows or any other ways?

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just gone to kangaroo to self pickup my lovely Samsung Spinpoint F3 1tb from lingloong.

When i open the box, it is HD103UJ. WTF

This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Jun 12 2010, 10:09 AM

that's F1

yeah, i'm packing the whole damn thing to send back, watse my $$, ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz

i was "WTF NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN" i faced like 2 times in a roll for people to send wrong stuff to me, and i have to send back again.

i was sleepy while driving, after i taken the thing and and straight open it in my car, when i saw the UJ, i felt like a slap in the face, render me completely in RAGE mode, and Vrroom Vrrooom back to home to repacking and contact lingloong via HP.

This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Jun 12 2010, 10:38 AM

Samsung still produce F1 drive ???

from newegg review, it has suffers reliability issue, however, usually only the one that failed being reported.

It's clearly not USB 2.0 my friend..

what HDD you guys prefer for gaming?

I am going to buy an external harddisk to store movies and play it. 500Gb external harddisk.

WDBAAA5000ABK-PESN, Passport 2.5" 500GB - RM 290...good?

Guys, I'm asking my friend to help me buy samsung f3 drive in kl soon. What is the actual model number my friend is looking for? My friend knows nothing abt pc so have to make sure he got the right drive. Thanks.

2TB EcoGreen F3 --> HD203WI
1.5TB EcoGreen F3 --> HD153WI
1TB EcoGreen F3 --> HD105SI

1TB Spinpoint F3 --> HD103SJ
0.5TB Spinpoint F3 --> HD502HJ

Get the spinpoint F3 drives

1TB Spinpoint F3 --> HD103SJ
750GB Spinpoint F3 --> HD754JJ
500GB Spinpoint F3 --> HD502HJ

Look at below for reference, if your hdd is other model number from the list below, it's not F3.

em. actually supplier can't give dealer F1 or F3 Samsung HDD, if deler request for F3, they only put remark there, then give to logistic ppl to prepare the hdds, if lucky then got F3 la. haha. if everyone want F3, then their F1 canot sold.

btw, now normally Samsung 1TB is F3, and 500GB F1, very rare to get 500GB F3 and 1.5TB F3 now.