anyone knows where can i find wd caviar black version for 320/500/640gb? checked at the garage sales, most of the people are selling blue and green version only..any shops at lyp got sell?

or am i better off getting a blue version instead? probably gonna use it to replace my 160gb as my main OS drive..

i've got some questions here

1 - Between Western Digital Caviar Black, Blue and Green, which one is best for my use? Thinking using it as my main OS drive. I want to get the 320GB/500GB Black, but i don't think it's easy to find here..usually i only see Blue ones around..

2 - What's the difference between normal single drive and setting up drives in RAID 5? I don't think i'll be using RAID 1 or 0, coz i prefer having both speed and backup, but prefer speed a bit more. Which one would be better?

for wd green drives, how will it perform if i use as my main os drive?

i see, if i use raid 0 i need to have 2 identical drives together isn't it?

well if that compared to the 640GB Blue benchmark posted previously, the Blue is having better transfer rates, only the Black has faster seek times

so does this say that WD Blue ~= WD Black?

i think 5 different folders should do. you're gonna have headache if you make 5 partitions, especially when you wanna keep stuff not categorized under those 5 types.

how about the freeagent usb dock? anyone knows where to find that?

I'm currently using WD green 640GB as my primary OS partition, so far so good, no major signs of slowdown whatsoever. maybe there's that slight difference compared to the WD blue or black version, but i doubt you'll really notice it.

As for storing movies/anime, it should do fine

in some cases you are able to retrieve using software, if can't then you can try professional data backup services. but that's gonna cost you quite some money.

i don't know about the cooling fan, but the formatting thing isn't true. formatting doesn't affect your hard disk life. you can format everytime, your hard disk will still run as it is.

there are actually. i saw it listed on WD's website before. just that they're not sold here.

yeah i got my hitachi from viewnet also. but sadly it failed on me a week ago. i dont really have an idea wha actually happened to it. i took it out so that i could clean my pc, didn't place it on the floor to avoid static, after that it ran fine, but then started to have cranking sound, and caused my pc to hang. it's still covered by 3 years 1-1 warranty by mlink. anyone rma-ed hitachi hdds before?

wont affect anything at all. it'llbe fine

does anyone know how to rma a hitachi hard disk? where's the factory?
or can i just send to any shop and ask them to help me send?

my hitachi hard disk is still under 3 year 1-1 warranty, according to the sticker on it. bought from viewnet last time.

thanks fariz for the link.
besides that can i get a shop to help me send?

what's the difference of this and the current wd mybook in the market?

haha..true indeed

i think for normal usage the difference cant really be noticed, i'm using green now, for me it's just fine

an increase of a few degrees maybe?

guys, just wanna ask, usually what's the average speed of sata hdd?

i just formattted my pc, last time i was using sata in native ide mode, now using sata mode, so just wanna check if there's any difference.

currently the burst speed is 138.2MB/s

here's the benchmark that i've done:

haha..i dont think it's about that, maybe not many people using samsung..coz seagate and wd are the common ones sold in the shop

don't know. maybe not at the meantime. i just bought it last week from a forumer. bought 2 units actually, another for my friend. a trade might be good perhaps