2 Samsung 2TB F4 HD204UI for $150

[Vincent]

Usually these Samsung F4 HD204UI can be found for $80, but if you need two of them you can get them both for $150 from Chiefvalue.com

http://www.chiefvalue.com/product-_-...00159477010060

Add two to your cart and use the coupon code CPTNKLCTR05 to save $10. It says that it ends tomorrow.

The coupon seems to work only with a $100 minimum purchase.

Chiefvalue is run by the same people as Newegg.

 

[BioSs]

Too bad, its not a 7200rpm Drive

 

[formulav8]

i'm still waiting for these 667GB platter drives to hit 7200rpm's. Their 500gb platter 7200 rpm drives are basically the fastest spindle drives out there. So the higher capacity platters should help transfer speed even more 🙂

 

[jjmIII]

Too bad, its not a 7200rpm Drive

I wish it was an SSD.

 

[goobee]

Are these the ones that have problems in WinXP?

 

[hans007]

Are these the ones that have problems in WinXP?

yes. they have 4k clusters

 

[bankster55]

these drives are faster than my 1TB WDC FEAX Black 64MB cache 7200RPM
128 vs 143.
I think the F4 2TB are the best value in HDD today
Big caveat:
there are refurbs around - if your serial says Z4 at the end
And yes, they are AFT drives
If you are using as just a data drive, no prob with XP on another HDD
If you are going to install XP on it, you will have to make sure you use Win 7 DVD cmd prompt diskpart to pre partition the drive. Some partitioning sw like Paragon and EASEUS have options for blank drives to partition XP type or Win 7 type. You want Win 7 type.
Or you could use the Paragon PAT Tool immediately after install with XP itself

 

[goobee]

OK so if I am understanding you correctly, I should be OK using it since I plan to use it as a storage drive only. The OS is installed on another drive.

 

[bankster55]

thats right
zero probs with ANY O/S as data drive

 

[bankster55]

yes. they have 4k clusters

actually the drives have 4096 BYTE sectors instead of traditional 512 BYTE sectors. The two controller chips on the HDD emulate those sectors as 512BYTE to the O/S, which never sees any 4096B sectors

Then during O/S install it defaults to 8 of those 512BYTE emulated sectors or 4096 BYTE clusters

 

[llmercll]

meh who needs 7200rpm on a storage drive. 140mbps on the outer platter matters more to me =)

Leave seek times to the SSD's =p

 

[Zebo]

These are great drives. I did a lot of research before building our 8TB NAS due to high levels problems in this size, I mean just look at new egg ratings most 2TB drive hover at 2.5 stars really unprecedented for HDD. Anyway, annocdotally people I talked with, read in the forums and even newegg ratings seem to laud these so I bought 4. Put them in the Synology and no problems for 6 months now.

Unfortunately I paid $100 ea. Great deal.

 

[Severian]

I have two of these in my WHS, and they're the fastest and coolest running drives in the whole array. Firmware emulation works perfectly with the older OS. I plan on using these exclusively as my WHS expands.