SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 HD154UI 1.5TB $89.99 NO REBATE!

In for 1, thanks for the link OP... needed some more space and this is a great price!
 
Think this deal will last another two days so I can wait till Bing CB goes back up to 10%???
 
The Gonz said:
Hey thanks for the sarcasm!

4 egg reviews overall and lots of 5 eggs on the site. You decide which to believe.
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No sarcasm at all... I really think it's a good deal.. but unfortunately, I had one Samsung drive fail on me.. (first time)... but they're good IMO..
 
Anyone want to buy my 6x WD 640gb "blue's" ? So I can replace the drives in my array with these? :D

They're all perfect, no bad sectors, full warranty.
 
Hmm, when I first looked it was limit 5 per customer, now it is limit 1 per customer. I went ahead and placed 2 separate orders and they went through. Hopefully they ship both!
 
Do you guys think these drives would be fine to run HD movies off of (.mkv files)? I can easily do so with my 7200rpm storage drives, but will 5400rpm be too slow?
 
Zetherin said:
Do you guys think these drives would be fine to run HD movies off of (.mkv files)? I can easily do so with my 7200rpm storage drives, but will 5400rpm be too slow?
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They'll be perfect for the job. Heck these would run way faster than through a USB drive and the USB drive will do the job. So grab them!
 
okashira said:
:rolleyes:
I choose not to believe newegg reviews.
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Yeah, I learned the hard way when I saw the Seagate 1 TB 340AS series drives have 4 or 5 eggs, all reviews the people were all over Seagate's knob, then the drives started failing for the majority of the people because of a major manufacturing defect. So, where are all those rave reviewers now?

I got a Samsung HD years ago and it worked well however.

Don't trust newegg reviews guys, they aren't qualified enough.


This drive doesn't even list rotational speed in the specs, wtf?
Edit: Ok so all eco drives are less than 7200RPM... ok.
 
Blah, they voided my second order. I wish they had a higher limit than 1 on these...
 
Zetherin said:
Do you guys think these drives would be fine to run HD movies off of (.mkv files)? I can easily do so with my 7200rpm storage drives, but will 5400rpm be too slow?
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Reviews show an average read speed of 87.5MB/sec... how fast do you think a drive needs to be? :confused:

The only reason these drives aren't great for primary OS drives it their random r/w speed... something completely irrelevant for storing music, movies, etc.
 
rhouck said:
Reviews show an average read speed of 87.5MB/sec... how fast do you think a drive needs to be?
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Is that fast enough to read a .mkv off of? I don't think the drives have to be any certain speed, I'm asking what the drives should be to smoothly run HD movies off of. Sorry, I'm not knowledgable in how the read speed equates (that is, I don't know if 87.5 MB/sec is good enough or not).
 
Did not want to spend $$$, but darn do you find great deals on HardOcp.

I guess this will replace the 2 small drives in my Box.

DM
 
Stupid newegg and the customer limit. Oh well, I guess that is sign that I will have to wait to add 4 drives to my array.
 
Zetherin said:
Is that fast enough to read a .mkv off of? I don't think the drives have to be any certain speed, I'm asking what the drives should be to smoothly run HD movies off of. Sorry, I'm not knowledgable in how the read speed equates (that is, I don't know if 87.5 MB/sec is good enough or not).
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More than enough.
 
Zetherin said:
Is that fast enough to read a .mkv off of? I don't think the drives have to be any certain speed, I'm asking what the drives should be to smoothly run HD movies off of. Sorry, I'm not knowledgable in how the read speed equates (that is, I don't know if 87.5 MB/sec is good enough or not).
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Maximum blu-ray bitrate is 40Mbit/sec, which is roughly 5MB/sec so that's essentially your worst case scenario (if you were reading a straight blu-ray rip off of your hard drive) in terms of read speed. Any drive you can buy that's been designed and made recently will be able to read HD movies more than quick enough.

short answer: Yes.
 
Hm, the limit was 5 at the time I ordered, lame that they dumped it down to 1/customer :(. As far as reviews go, you have to judge their competency just like with forum posts... or "real" reviews: not all people have the same level of knowledge or experience.
 
I have had 2 Samsung 1TB F1 drives for 2 years now and they have been awesome. No problems whatsoever. They run 24/7 and have yet to really skip a beat.
 
Zetherin said:
Is that fast enough to read a .mkv off of? I don't think the drives have to be any certain speed, I'm asking what the drives should be to smoothly run HD movies off of. Sorry, I'm not knowledgable in how the read speed equates (that is, I don't know if 87.5 MB/sec is good enough or not).
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2 hours is 7200 seconds. 7200 seconds x 87.5 MB/sec = 630,000 MB

Is your two hour mkv movie bigger than 630GB? :p

(my point is that it's not even remotely close, you're complete orders of magnitude away from it being an issue.)
 
Pretty sweet deal. A few of these popped up last week as open box items for $73+$6 shipping. My friend and I both grabbed one, and mine gets delivered today.

Open box drives from newegg any good? I was assuming open box didn't matter, since OEM drives come with nothing anyways. It was still listed as having the 3yr warranty.
 
Thanks for the responses, guys.

Well, if that is the case, then I'm finding it quite odd that people are sticking their noses up at the 5900rpm drives, as if it makes much of a difference. I keep hearing, "Oh, it's not 7200rpm, that's a deal breaker!". Surely these people weren't planning to use the drive as a main OS drive, so what on earth are they concerned about?
 
Zetherin said:
Thanks for the responses, guys.

Well, if that is the case, then I'm finding it quite odd that people are sticking their noses up at the 5900rpm drives, as if it makes much of a difference. I keep hearing, "Oh, it's not 7200rpm, that's a deal breaker!". Surely these people weren't planning to use the drive as a main OS drive, so what on earth are they concerned about?
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I think part of it is the old-school stigma of sub-7200 rpm drives; just a few years ago, 5400 rpm drives were amazingly slow. Drive densities have increased to the point that even 5400 rpm drives read/write as fast as the old 7200 rpm drives used to.
 
Neb said:
I think part of it is the old-school stigma of sub-7200 rpm drives; just a few years ago, 5400 rpm drives were amazingly slow. Drive densities have increased to the point that even 5400 rpm drives read/write as fast as the old 7200 rpm drives used to.
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I think a similiar thing happened a few years ago when the dual-cores came out - a lot of people saw that the current Pentium 4's were up to 3.2ghz (it was even higher, wasn't it?), and so when they saw the new chips not even getting past 2.5ghz, they freaked! People assumed the newer chips were slower because the ghz was lower, not knowing that the new chips performed much better (cycled faster).

It'll just take some time for people to catch on, I guess. As per usual.
 
[newegg review]Hard drive is a total scam!!! Sold as 1.5 TB but when formatted windows only says 1.395TB!!! WTF!!! Will never buy again.[/newegg review]

Id bite if it wernt for damn CA sales tax. (which applies to what seems to be about 95% of online stores)
 
runnin17 said:
Haha, that's awesome. I wonder if that guy ever got a clue???
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I didnt actually see this on the reviews for this sammy drive, (didnt even look at it) but I have seen countless "reviews" like this for many other HD's at newegg.
 
Damn, I could use another one. I've got two doing 1:1 backups of my array. Hmm...
 
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