may i know which brand of ex-harddisk should be better?

ic..... then perhaps warranty?? lolz

i would like to get an external harddisk for my lenovo s10, preferably one that is black & slim & uses one usb port only. can anyone recommend me brands i should consider? pls pm me if possible.

tks!

@jimmylim85
WD 1TB better performance than WD640GB.
Nice effort there.

-pWs-

you guys know where is the nearest WD warranty center in PJ?

any recommendation for 1tb?
i saw at loyat selling cheap also less than rm320
good or not?

last time i tot HDD is just same type as all brand line . but after finished reading all post here. realised i bought wrong HDD for my daily use.

WD640 GB is my latest HDD that 16MB Green. 

We were able to confirm that our 750 GB Green Power had a spindle speed of 5,400 RPM by doing frequency analysis on a sound recording of it. Why sound? Sound is vibration; the pitch of the sound corresponds to the frequency of the vibration. Hard drives vibrate at the speed of their motor, so they produce a noise at the same frequency as their rotation speed. Our sample had a sharp spike at exactly 90 Hz (cycles per second). Multiplying that number by 60 (to get cycles per minute) yielded a measured rotation speed of 5,400 RPM.

wat capacity hdd u wan? u should check the warranty period too.

I have to admit that Green Power runs cooler and more silent.

I own 500GB Green, haven't fail me.

Wanted to run cool, as media storage and backup. Go green

how to test the HDD? i just downloaded the HDD tune 2.55 and my benchmark w/o processing any program kinda weird. help me to test the HDD with HDD tune 2.55. 

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Added on May 8, 2009, 12:46 pmgood or bad? i dunno how to measure the HDD efficiency. 

Western Digital is aggressively seeking greater market share by producing innovative drives that fill niches never tackled before or creating new niches. With the Green Power, they managed to reach green-conscious PC users feeling guilty about buying extra storage capacity for movies, music and the rest. They also managed to reach those who seek lower noise. With the Velociraptor, they can actually reach both of those groups (since the drive is both quiet and low power) as well as the traditional power user to whom the Raptor series has always been marketed. That a drive can be the fastest, quietest, and lowest power desktop model available is quite a feat. We've never had a triple crown winner before. It's a major achievement.

That's only if the VelociRaptor is used bare out of the IcePack.

At the start of this review, we conjectured that the IcePack had two functions: To make the Velociraptor's native small size a non-factor for the potential DIY/enthusiast buyer and to help cool it. In restrospect, the second item is not one of its functions. This drive does not need special cooling, given the low power dissipation. No, the more important function is to help market the drive. We revise our earlier statement:

The IcePack has two functions, both directly related to sales and marketing:

  1. It make the Velociraptor's native small size a non-factor for the potential DIY/enthusiast buyer.
  2. It gives the Velociraptor a unique look and style that most PC enthusiasts, with their previous exposure to and experience with aftermarket heatsinks, will perceive as cool, powerful,and even sexy. It's for marketing appeal.

If the IcePack was engineered to be functional rather than to increase saleability, it would incorporate vibration damping. The absence of conduction for cooling is a non issue for a 4~6W drive that fits into the standard 3.5" tray in a modern PC case, because those trays are invariably just on the inside of the front vents where there is always at least some airflow. The tiniest bit of airflow across this drive (without the IcePack) is enough to keep it under a perfectly safe 40°C in a typical case. (We tried it.) As it stands, the IcePack is a joke, acoustically, adding all kinds of tonal, resonant harmonics excited by the vibrations of the drive.

atomik, yours is a Caviar Blue, like jimmylim85's, and not a Caviar Green. The performance should be just fine. It does perform better than the 1 TB 32 MB Caviar Green.

You should also either remove your attachment or replace it. Use the built-in screenshot function as shown in: