so is it true??
1TB for <RM500??
great news then...

how's it compare to WD 640GB??
price performance ratio??  

Does we see any other better bench mark other than the faster read or write on hd alone.

WD and seagate is good but seagate got 5 years warranty while WD got 3 only. Since HDD spoil easy more warranty is better but I still prefer WD over seagate because my 3 previous seagate HDD never live more than 2 years.

same question again...did anyone help me to find out Is Seagate 1.5TB available in Lowyat at the moment??  I need to get one of this in this few days, I saw it listed in their price list, but no sure they got stock or not... can Someone help me to find out please....many many THanks.

The 1TB Black delivers similar performance to the 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11, although it loses out to the Seagate by a narrow margin all along the way. It would be unfair to call the Caviar Black noisy, but the 33dBA noise rating under load makes it clearly audible and prone to causing vibration inside your PC. By contrast, the 2TB Green is very quiet indeed and is effectively silent.

Our synthetic benchmark tests show that the 2TB Green is marginally slower than the 1TB Black in average read and write tests, but the burst speed and random access times of the Green put it ahead of the Black. Transferring files within the drive took longer with the 2TB Green than it did with either the 1TB Black or 1.5TB Seagate, which is exactly what we'd expect to see considering the Green's slower rotational speed.

For comparison we had to rely on previously recorded results as we no longer have the drives in question. This is why we don't have complete results for all the other drives. Nonetheless, we've compared to the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB, the Hitachi 7K1000 1TB, and, to show what a performance drive can do, the Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB.

Starting with the HDTune results, it's clear that despite the power saving enhancements, this drive still competes in terms of access time with both the Seagate and Hitachi 1TB drives and actually beats them on average transfer rate. We don't have write results for these drives but, in isolation, the Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green seems just as accomplished when writing data as it does when reading.

In PCMark the WD 2TB Caviar Green again beats the Hitachi 1TB drive and in fact, in all our remaining tests, this 2TB, apparently low-power drive, beats the conventional 1TB drives from Seagate and Hitachi.

7200.12 memory cache is base on how big is the HDD
250gb = 8mb cache
500gb = 16mb cache
750gb = 32mb cache
1000gb = 32mb cache

that's what i saw on some certain website info.
but i was hoping to see higher memory cache like... 1000gb for 64mb cache WTF LOL. just joking xD

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.

we have 1tb wd hard disk for rm330 nia ! interested ?

i wanted to move all my 7200.11 seagate 500gb files and windows to my new samsung hdd, can anyone recommend any software to do it ?

i wonder why that 1Tb wd black rated as sata 3..
they make it faster?