Hi guys, hope to get some advice here. I'm thinking of buying a 3.5" external HDD for storage purpose.

Is it a good time to buy right now?
Any difference between internal HDD + casing combo and originally external products (such as WD MyBook)?
Does it require AC power supply or is USB enough?
And since I'm going for storage purpose, cache size doesn't matter, right?
WD or SeaGate or others? Or doesn't matter?

Thanks a lot guys

Thanks for the input. How about the cache size? Does it matter if it's used for storage? Any idea what are the specs of WD MyBook? I can't seem to find it.

Now I'm thinking what size to get

Ah, I see. Thanks

Any WD MyBook users here? Comments?

Is there any way to connect a 2.5" HDD to a notebook without external enclosure?

Guys, any recommendations on software to burn-in HDD?

500GB is easily used up. Especially for pirates (almost everyone? )

If you have interest in movies and music, go get Rapidshare premium account, or an unthrottled BT connection, 500GB is easily filled Especially for HD stuffs

Bah. I did a CHKDSK and...



Gotta ask for another replacement and I've just spent hours setting up and updating this

I'm getting myself a WD MyBook 1TB too. Online reviews show that the software included = crap and that the first thing you should do is format it to NTFS But if it shows 930GB that's quite a big loss. It should show 976GB

Ah! I've always thought that although manufacturer's 1GB = 1000MB, the MB is of 1024*KB. Didn't know it's 1000 way down to B

Seagate's 7200.11 should be better in performance.

640GB is just the capacity, not the performance :-\

Yeah, it is. Doesn't that answer your question?

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=20579670

Aside from the capacity, the specs are the same and thus it can be a guideline.

He asked for performance, I gave an answer based on what I know. I never said it was a definite answer, hence the word should.

Agreed that the difference is not much; but if you transfer huge amount of data, it should be noticeable.

This post has been edited by Crazy.SoT.Gila: Oct 17 2008, 06:45 PM

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

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

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

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

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