Black edition is of course out my budget.

Between Blue and Green, is it Blue gives more performance than Green does?

Btw is seagate 500GB barracuda 7200.12 good?

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=24096245

Kindly read this earlier post. It was somewhat of a revelation for me. Review was about Seagates but note how WD performed. Go for WD Blue 640GB. It gives the best bang for buck

This post has been edited by sUBs: Mar 21 2009, 10:05 PM

How much is Blue Power 640GB going to be? cause green power is RM 225.

When I last checked, some shops were selling for around RM220 last week.

the thing is the disk is a seagate sata drive newer then my old maxtor ide drive.my maxtors SMART passes.

So you strongly recommend WD 640GB Blue Power, but is seems hard to find. I only able to find blue in 320gb while 640gb all green

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Added on March 21, 2009, 10:50 pmBtw is WD SE16 640GB is it Blue Power?

This post has been edited by jimmylim85: Mar 21 2009, 10:50 PM

I got mine from Viewnet 10 days ago. Try giving them a call.

Im from ipoh leh. They quote me rm 233

that price include courier ar?

If you're including courier charges, that may explain it. It's listed as RM214 on their online price list. Don't you have any pc shops in Ipoh?

All price increase already .... hard to find blue power when most of them stocking green power

In truth, price decreased. It was previously listed at RM224 at Viewnet. That was 10 days ago.

AFAIK there's no 'Green' 640GB.
Green only comes in 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB.

Refer here:
Green:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=576

Blue:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=311

edit:
oh actually there is a 640gb green, in the CE drives category. (Similar to Seagate's SV series)

This post has been edited by cannavaro: Mar 22 2009, 09:11 PM

actually can Seagate Enterprise series SV35 500GB use on our daily rig?

Or more towards being storage or NAS?

AFAIK, SV35 isn't really an Enterprise version disk. It's a drive, designed specifically for digital video surveillance recording. They have large caches & are designed to be located in drive cases that may get quite warm (70C). Not really meant for general purpose computing.

Found you some data about SV drives.

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showpost...644&postcount=7

Lucky i didn't use it. primary for my client DVR units.

Bought mine a unit. Western Digital Blue Caviar 640GB 16MB 7200RPM SATA2 HDD for RM220. Definitely worth the price. Used to run on RAID 0 but realize the performance increase isn't worth the risk in data retention. My previous Maxtor (5 years old) combination creates missing programs every now and then. With this Blue Power HDD, the performance is more or less the same to me.

I guess the higher disk density and product improvement has increased its performance. Of course RAID 0 on a PC desktop environment isn't really that much of an improvement unless rendering comes into the picture.

This post has been edited by davidmak: Mar 23 2009, 11:15 AM

Hi, can anybody tells me the quality about Transcend harddisk?

Is it safe to use WD 1TB Black caviar for storage. Worried about hdd failure,

Of all hard disk brand/models, may I ask why you are specifically worried about Caviar Black? It's supposed to be one of the better ones around. To get any better results would mean investing in an enterprise version.

This post has been edited by sUBs: Mar 25 2009, 10:32 PM