Does anyone know where I can purchase a couple of these Hitachi 4TB internal hard drives from ?

I contacted the local 'JIB' store in Hua Hin and they had never heard of them. In fact they had no 4TB drives at all.

Unless you are suffering from a lack of space, a two time 2 GB drive rack is still a cheaper solution than one with 4 GB. JIB has great deals - you have to be informed , though. They are quick with: no have. Ask them to look up your gear ! They cross ship between shops, you hardly wait longer than 48h for your stuff.

How about something fancy, which makes sense when you want to spend that king of money for a drive? I would suggest a hybrid drive.

The Hua Hin JIB store is very hit or miss when it comes to helpfulness. I've had some fellows who were very knowledgeable and helpful, but then they disappeared. They guys there now, seem to either not know or not care.

They do have a somewhat searchable web page, and it's the exact same page the store staff access to see if JIB has something in stock: Click the top field just below the horizontal blue bar with the + symbol at the top center for product catetories, and then click the left-hand black button below that. You may need to scroll through several pages, since I have never been able to make the sub-category/sub-search items work.

I sorely miss the Hardware House outlet that used to be at Hua Hin Shopping Mall (same floor as JIB). They seemed more on-the-ball.

Back to your specific quest: On the JIB site, I see no 4TB HDDs. The largest shown are WD/Seagate 3TB models.

Doing a quick search through my bookmarked Thai online sites, the only 4TB HDD I find at all is: WD Caviar Black 4TB 64MB FAEX at Compute & More for B10,550.

Hitachi distributed in Thailand ? ...anyway, I read if you want Hitachi quality you'd need to buy a Fujitsu HD now.

if u r using the drives as NAS storage the 4TB WD green drives are enough,

if u r using the drives as NAS storage the 4TB WD green drives are enough

Totally disagree. Nothing but trouble with green drives on a NAS. They are the only drive failures I have ever had running synology and qnap NAS servers. U have to adjust the firmware WDIDLE etc.

Synology, QNAP - state yes they work but do not recommend them.

if you want a quality NAS drive go for WD RED drives.

Lots of bad reports and why not to use Green's in a NAS:

if u r using the drives as NAS storage the 4TB WD green drives are enough

Totally disagree. Nothing but trouble with green drives on a NAS. They are the only drive failures I have ever had running synology and qnap NAS servers. U have to adjust the firmware WDIDLE etc.

Synology, QNAP - state yes they work but do not recommend them.

if you want a quality NAS drive go for WD RED drives.

Lots of bad reports and why not to use Green's in a NAS:

Using them and have had no problems as long and its cooled properly

http://www.behardware.com/articles/881-6/components-returns-rates-7.html

Components returns rates (7)

by Marc Prieur

Published on November 16, 2012

3.5" hard drives

- Western 1.48% (against 1.63%)

- Samsung 1.65% (against 1.23%)

- Seagate 1.70% (against 1.89%)

- Hitachi 3.77% (against 3.95%)

With an improved score, Western has taken over from Samsung at the top. Samsung’s returns rate has also got worse. Seagate is hot on the heels of Samsung and Hitachi, as was the case in our last report, brings up the rear with quite a high rate. It is to be hoped that Toshiba, which has taken over Hitachi’s 3.5" hard drive production, will be able to remedy this problem.

4 hard drives have a higher than 5% rate:

- 7.65% for the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 3 TB

- 6.91% for the Seagate Barracuda XT 2 To

- 5.78% for the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 160 GB

- 5.30% for the Samsung SpinPoint F3 (HD253GJ) 250 GB

Here now are the stats for the 3 TB drives sold over the period:

- 7.65% for the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 3 TB

- 4.86% for the Seagate Barracuda XT 3 TB

- 3.36% for the Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3 TB

- 3.12% for the WD Caviar Green 3 TB

And the 2 TB drives:

- 4.60% for the WD Caviar RE4 2 TB

- 3.91% for the WD Caviar Black 2 TB

- 3.32% for the WD Caviar Green 2 TB WD20EARS

- 2.28% for the Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2 TB

- 1.94% for the WD AV-GP 2 TB

- 1.46% for the WD Caviar Green 2 TB WD20EARX

- 1.03% for the WD RE4-GP 2 TB