i have one question.

If i'm going to use the harddisk as external connecting to pc using USB 2, is there going to be much difference in performance between the blue and green or even black?

Can anyone say which HDD is reliable now since there's rumor that seagate screwed up in the big capacity series. Anyone can say more bout Hitachi's?

WD is the most reliable. Well don't depend on only 1 hdd if u backup stuff, thats why i have 2 external 1TB as backups for all my stuffs. Currently i have 5 hdds, 3 WD, 1 Seagate and 1 Maxtor. Don't know much about Hitachi hdds...

But if you wanted to buy some HDD for a long run and ready raid then must count on a brand only right?

I have 2 WD HDD and 3 Seagates. The latest I bought is Seagate 7200.11 1TB. Don't know if you guys noticed this.... From Vista test, both WD HDDs gives gives 110+ MB/s for burst speed and about 72+MB/s for sustained speed. Seagate on the other hand will be somewhat opposite, giving 94+MB/s burst and 120+MB/s sustained....

Interesting.... any idea which speed is more important?

I don't know why but my rig has been acting weirdly lately. It takes me ages to load some pictures in my D Drive. I use a 2RAM rig and I doubt I should be facing that type of problem. I think I probably need to change to a new hard disk. How much would a 100gb hard disk cost?

Don't think you're gonna be able to find new 3.5" 100GB HDD nowadays.... even 160GB is a little difficult I think. Or did you mean 1000GB ie 1TB?

1TB is about rm330 depending on brand and series. You can always check the garage or LYN main page for pricelists

i m getting WD5000BEVT 500GB Scorpio Blue for my laptop.. is there any better recommendation besides this one?

I'm not sure because I'm a noobie in all these. My budget is about RM100. lol

Just checked.. 160GB is about 130.... but 320GB is only 150 - 160 Go for 320GB

u looking for ide or sata? 2.5 or 3.5inch?

3.5" WD 1TB 7200rpm 32MB = RM328 (HDD only)
or
WD Element 1TB = RM350
or
WD MyBook Essensial 1TB = RM370

....Need some tips.... can the Element or MyBook Essential case to be open easily?

This post has been edited by sam240: Apr 19 2009, 04:45 PM

which shop can u find that price? i wan to buy

Why do u want to open the Elements or Mybook casing? I think it would be quite hard to open it coz there's no screws in the casing. You would have to rip out the casing...

I would recommend, if you need to open the casing, better get a hdd and 3.5 casing. But price wise, its better to just buy a 1TB like WD external like home, mybook, elements etc, its much cheaper

From every section i learn something, i m going to like this forum.

I have a WD 640 gb(main C:), have been acting weird (slowdown of the pc, can feel the pc stuttering) when i copying large files and BTs from one partition to another.....or maybe from thumbdrive..anyone has the this weird problems..the WD is about less than a yr old.

Anyone has a gd recommend for a new 1TB or perhaps a gd solutions on it..

I m using WD 640 GB, so far i got no problem with it. But mine is different case, while I copy huge file it act fast.

Hmm...will reformat it and check
other hardwares and see..

Try it.. ^^

just wan to ask
for the Anywhere Backup Software in western digital hardisk, can it supported for windows server 2003???
doesnt anyone try it be4???
thx