Not really.
You just need to keep your HDD defragmented thats all. Keep your stuff organized and you shouldn't feel an performance difference. Don't simply campak your files in My Documents then suddenly in your partitioned drive, then in your dekstop.... all over the place. That will hurt performance.

WD Caviar Green actually would spin at a slower rate to consume energy. Thus being "green".
Not a gamer's HDD.

Are you using screws to hold your HDD and not those filmsy and useless tooless brackets?

For torrenting, its just best to go for Green.
You aren't going to get the performance benifits at all from the Black.

And even so, the difference isn't anything dramatic.

Its okay.
But not recommended, the speed will be rather slow.

I do feel a difference to be honest.
Especially from a Samsung F3 to a WD Green (not talking about the 1.5TB here, but in general).

Uhm...
Its an external hard-disk?

It does what it should do.
Perfomance wise, don't expect anything major because its for storage purposes.

Really, a decent hard disk except for the annoying WD software thing that is embedded into the firmware and cannot be removed.

In comparison to which HDD?
If you're talking about HDDs that are now 3 or 4 years old, Black definitely has better performance.

But by how much? On average, not more than 2-3 seconds of faster loading time on the game you're playing now.

Pure performance, if you want to feel it... SSD is the only answer.




Your statement gave me a good laugh man.
No offense.

Well anand reviewd the XT a couple of days ago.
It definitely performs well, but its still a ways off SSD.

Good start however for the Momentus XT.

I suggest, for those who buy alot of HDD and don't like external pre-made HDDs (Mybook, story station, etc.) due to the slow HDDs being used inside, get a dock.
Switch your HDD on the fly.

Will happen after Q2 2010.
So yea... keep an eye out.

Get a reasonable PSU.
Vantec ION2+ 460w @ RM150 is a rather good buy and its components is at a rather decent quality as well.

RM50 PSU doesn't meant can't support... but if anything goes wrong and it decides to pull your system down to hell with it, then its game over.

I actually find the Smartware to be more irratating than helpful.
And sadly, it cannot be disabled as it isn't a software but is a firmware feature.

The smartware doesn't really suck if you can bear with it.
Some people find it useful actually.

Yeap.
It isn't deletable because its a firmware feature, not a software.

Well RAM wise... doesn't matter much on these days of PCs.
Its only irratating because the damn thing has to pop out everytime I connect mybook to my PC.

Hmm.... just a couple of mb really, not much.
Can be disabled?

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Added on June 21, 2010, 12:46 amNon-OS drive I suppose its for storage.
In that case, speed isn't much of an issue actually.

Its better you pick a cheaper 32mb cache drive instead.
Save a few bucks go starbucks.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Jun 21 2010, 12:46 AM

Doesn't matter really.
First of all it is because... how fast can you download lol. Don't forget, you're in bolehland.

The amount of data you can write on your HDD is piss-small.
So the cache being as big as 64mb wouldn't make any bit of difference either.

They're F3 shinji. HD103SJ.
I got another yesterday (lmao... can't resist temptation! ).

No, its because Samsung loves everyone.


Seriously though, since the last 12 months Samsung has shaken up the HDD market price like a tidal wave.
They build HDDs with great performance yet coming at a price lower than its competitive products from other manufacturers.

Thus, there's no way the other big 2... Western Digital and Seagate, can do as they please with prices anymore.
The result is, lower prices for the consumers... bigger win for everyone.

WD still selling at >RM210 @ Viewnet.

I went to viewnet this morning, wanted to get ANOTHER F3...
But stock habis already, in almost all shops.

Wow... everyone sapu F3 in just 1 week.