Recent content by Blessed

I know the deal is over, but is buying this drive like rolling a dice. You either get a hd or you get a brick?

Engineer, that's what happened to me. I was trying to decide how many to buy... then the item got removed. However, I had a few in my shopping cart and it allowed me to finish my purchase.

mwave removed the item... :( I hope my order doesn't get canceled.

WOW. $60 for 1TB is a super hot deal! I bought 6 of these in the last 2 months at $~100 each. I'm in for a few... Thanks Adam8281!

[DELETE PLEASE] This is a mispost.

You need 54.0Mbps to stream blu-ray HD videos (http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/). The 5400 rpm HD103UI averages 560Mbps (70MB/s). So essentially, this HD could be spinning at 521rpm (less than one tenth it's spin rate) and still stream your HD video. I can't believe how many people think that...

I bought one of these when they first came out for $120. Great HDs... cool and quiet... the quietest HD I've ever own. I just bought 5 more just now.

"this is good for a HTPC but 5400 rpm is a bit slow for the main IMHO." This is hardly the case. It may be slower than the 7200 F1 in overall performance, but not slow for a main or anything else. 333megs/platter at 5400 is still faster than most HDs from last year. I have both the 7200...

5 platter 1TB drive? No thanks.

"I remember paying $100 for a 1gig compact flash drive, that was a hot deal for a week" WOW... Kinda makes me sad, but that reminds me when I bought 3 60gig HDs for $900 dollars. Now, we're talking about 1TB HD for $120 and it's not even considered a hot deal... just normal pricing.

Call me crazy... but I'd pay 5$ more for a slower 5400rpm version of the F1 for my HTPC. Less noise and vibrations, less heat... probably longer life expectancy. And in all seriousness, the performance of 333GB/platter @ 5400rpm probably exceeds the 6.5 MB/s requirement to play 1080p movies by...

Can any owners here comment on the drive's sound level? I'm looking for a large and quiet HD for a HTPC. For comparison, I consider the Samsung's F1 series to be quiet enough for my needs. If possible, compare it to the F1s.

If you think of these HDs as cheap storage, then having 8MB cache versus 16MB is not going to make a bit of a difference. Also, can someone tell me why having a SATA 150 versus SATA 300 interface would matter if the HD's burst xfer rates don't even come close to topping 100 MB/s?

BIOS 14 fixed the double POST issue for me and I haven't experienced any freezes at POST. I'm not sure if it's related, but after upgrading to BIOS 14, I was able to overclock my E2180 from 3.0Ghz to 3.2Ghz on stock air.

nvm