Warm: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB 32MB 7200RPM $96.99 FS NR!

3 platter drive. Price is close to neweggs, but no FS. A lot of people report dead drives and failed drives. I think I'm going to wait for a caviar black 1TB drive to hit $100 out the door.
 
thats weird, because samsung makes great drives, never had an issue with em.. maxtor, sure, but never had a samsung die on me. F1s are pretty fast too..
 
Not a bad price. How does Samsung compare w/ the usual suspects (WD, Hitachi, Seagate, Maxtor)?
 
I really like samsung drives, I have 2 x 320GB's, 1 x 500GB, and 1 x 1TB. They are all super quiet and seem to run much cooler to the touch than the seagates I have.
 
I had a 4 year old samsung die on me. One morning the hard drive was clicking and no boot.
 
I've had 2 and they worked perfectly. I've also had 2 WD BE 1tb and the WD is a little quicker
 
SparksNelec said:
Um, no. The Hitachi is $95 before rebate, $85 after. The samsung is $97 with no rebate available.
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But the Hitachi only has 16 MB cache, whereas this Samsung has 32 MB. I don't know how much of a real-world performance upgrade 32 makes over 16, though.
 
I actually bought a Samsung F1 1TB for my HTPC as a recommendation from Silentpcreview.com. It is quite without the sacrificing of speed. Check the review out at their website, Awesome drive!
 
beowulf7 said:
But the Hitachi only has 16 MB cache, whereas this Samsung has 32 MB. I don't know how much of a real-world performance upgrade 32 makes over 16, though.
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wouldnt it hinder the speed of larger file work+transfers? although who knows how noticible it'd really be "real-world"..
 
got a pair of 1tb samsungs, i think they're fine. a bit on the warm side for my likings, but that was only after i had consolidated all my backups onto the drive. great price though.
 
Can save a few bucks at ewiz $92 shipped, limit one, 3% MS Live cashback under the name SuperBiiz. Last week it was $90 shipped, ewiz seems to change their prices almost daily.

[QUOTE="I'm not a crook";1033687522]3 platter drive. Price is close to neweggs, but no FS. A lot of people report dead drives and failed drives. I think I'm going to wait for a caviar black 1TB drive to hit $100 out the door.[/QUOTE]

Are you basing that on newegg reviews? Because all drives from newegg seem to have above average doa/failure rate, I'm guessing due to the way they pack and ship them. I've had failures from WD, Seagate and Maxtor before Seagate bought them, and I also have 5-6 yr old drives from WD and Seagate. Still I don't have high expecations on hard drive reliability.

That being said I bought 6 Samsung F1 750gb drives from the summer and into the fall, quiet for drives and so far none have failed, but it wouldn't suprise me a couple did.
 
__hollywood|meow said:
wouldnt it hinder the speed of larger file work+transfers? although who knows how noticible it'd really be "real-world"..
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Yeah, I guess benchmark tests comparing the 16 MB to the 32 MB cache would give an indication of real-world performance. My gut feeling is it wouldn't make a noticeable diff.
 
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