what does this means?
why windows xp prefer 512 byte sector compared to 4k byte sector?
how these 2 technology work?

got even.. 2tb.. but rated as 5400rpm..
and still fast..

u talking too much.. show me ecogreen..



i don't really care about the name, i just want the F3 performance..

Anyone here tried the new WD hard disk?

lok3i,

if u look back on your question i quoted @ the very beginning ur referring to the F3..

thus any size would taking place regardless what ever name they used to be..
lol the F3 itself not even stated on the label..

everybody can google..
if u ever knew the F3 performance is quite the same despite rated @ difference rpm.. not like wd..
that's the most important info u should know..

am i not stated the 5400rpm @ the first place?
lol u need some reading..

try ur self..

Seagate has officially confirmed that it will introduce a 3TB drive later this year. In a chat with Thinq, Seagate's Senior Product Manager Barbara Craig confirmed the plans and noted that getting to 3TB is not as easy as it seems.

Due to logical block addressing (LBA) limitations inherited from DOS, it is impossible to increase storage size beyond 2.1TB without introducing a new LBA standard. Seagate did just that, by extending LBA to Long LBA addressing and increasing the number of bytes used to define addresses. However, Long LBA is not supported by older operating systems, such as Windows XP. Hence, only Vista and Windows 7 users can hope to use the new drives.

This might not sound like a major issue, as most users have already migrated to more recent operating systems, but booting from the new drives is also troublesome. Most current motherboards can't cope with Long LBA due to BIOS and controller limitations. Despite this, Craig is optimistic and believes the industry will embrace the new standard by year's end.

I've lost a hard disk to a bad PSU. It wasn't a hard decision to spend a little more on the PSU after that.

Thank you. To confirm with you that... is this will fasten the speed of formatting HDD?
Is that mean WinXP will damage WD10EARS HDD?

Sure no problem since you install Win 7.Btw,which version you use?

my caviar black jz went dead (typically) 2 weeks ago.motherboard refuse to boot/read into it

so crazy,i back up my pc internal hdd,80GB.2 partition,each with 40 GB,and one portable 20GB hdd.
it took me about 20hour to finish backup!!!!!!!!

i am not sure too.how to check it is usb 1.0 or usb 2.0.
i remember when i plug in my WD external hdd and portable hdd, it prompt out the ysb 2.0 speed on the right side menu(clock side).
beside that,my pc got alot of virus,and bloodly hell lag for almost 1year+.That's why i bought WD external hdd for backup,because i want to format my pc.

i using acer cpu,aspire sa85 model.

1.5TB Samsung

RM279 

lingloong price

nice price. but 5400rpm not worth to buy unless u look for big storage not performance.

Ordinary consumer doesn't want this.

As current 80GB SSD cost RM700-900 to own one as compared sub Rm200 for ordinary HDD as OS hardisk in a new built.
The difference is too huge and costly to ordinary consumer market.

What most like to see is 80GB price drop down 50% to Rm300-400 range, which become more affordable.
Not the like 160GB cost Rm700 (same with 80GB previously) but 80GB they obsolete it instead the price drop 50% to Rm300-400.

Ordinary consumer just want SSD for as OS disk to capitalise its performance.
People are not interested in using SSD as a storage disk.