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Anyone got a 7200 RPM Samsung Drive?

RanDum72, If you have the time, would you run HD Tach on your drive and post the results? I have been curious about the Samsung drives.
 
RanDum72, If you have the time, would you run HD Tach on your drive and post the results? I have been curious about the Samsung d

I sure will but HDTach requires me to register and pay $50 to enable write support (and Support under NT/2000/XP).🙁
 
Originally posted by: RanDum72
Just got one off Newegg (80gig, 7200rpm) for around $85. Its very quiet.
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Excellent. Normally I would shy away from a drive that low in price, except I am so happy with my Samsung 900NF monitor, that I want to believe that the qualitity of this drive is up to par with its competitors
 
Just ran Sandra 2002 disk benchmarks onit. Score is 27522. Not the fastest I've seen but my main obejctive with this drive is storage. And its the cheapest 80gig, 7200rpm drive (its price even compares to 5400rpm models form other brands).
 
OK, now for some HDtach marks! ( Don't ask how I did it😉

Random Access Times: 13.4ms

Read Speed: Max. = 43812 kps
min = 23394 kps
average = 36791.1 kps

CPU utilization = 10.6%

All of these are with an AMD Duron 1ghz, 200mhz FSB. Asus A7N-266 E (nForce 420 chipset, built-in IDE controller) motherboard, 384mb of Crucial PC2100 ram (32mb shared with built-in video). The Samsung is the only one in the IDE channel (no slaves).


Second run is virtually the same. CPU usage dropped a little bit to 10%.
 
Samsung makes pretty quality drives. I used to have one of their drives back in the Pentium days, no problems at all. However, their drives have a shortcoming - their firmware isn't optimized enough and it results in the slowest performance in the class. Samsung HDs are known as Intel IOmeter champions, it's a sign that they got good electronics, but firmware weaknesses result in 'low' regular Windows performance. Of course, they're not slow at all, but clearly slower than Maxtors and IBM ones, as far as I know.
 
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