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DEAD: Samsung HD103UJ 1TB Sata2 $89 shipped

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eWiz/SuperBiiz has a special running on these for $10 off with promo code SPECIAL10. Shipping is free for ground service.
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I have a couple of these now and they are very solid drives. They are getting harder to find now at a good price. I have ordered from eWiz several times without issues. They jump around on the price of these on their site so I don't know how long this is good for. Currently $99+shipping @ newegg.


Edit 03/09: Price is now @ $94.78 + shipping.
Edit 03/10: Price is now @ $89.96 + shipping

You can see what I mean about their price changing daily. They are still cheaper than anyone else I would care to buy from.
 
Originally posted by: beergeek
Originally posted by: angry hampster
Is this 250GB or 500GB platters?
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AFAIK, it's 3x350GB platters...
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I think Samsung typically maxes out their drives at three platters. For instance, their upcoming 1.5TB drive will have three 500GB platters and they have not announced a 2TB drive like WD did.

Seagate and WD will do 4 platters, and Hitachi will do up to five on rare occasions, but they may be switching to 4.

More platters means a hotter running drive that draws more power, plus lower performance than the same capacity using fewer platters (due to platter density).
 
I have 2 of these myself running in a RAID 0 Array (games, app, storage drive), the performance has been great...read is ~190mb/sec avg according to HD Tune (only have trial version, so I can't test write speed). As a comparison my WD Velocipator 10k (OS drive) avg read speed was ~115mb/sec (edit: this comparison is really useless since it is comparing a raid 0 array to a non-array drive, but still gives you an idea)

I can't talk about reliability yet as I have only had the drives for a little over a month, but thus far I have been happen with these drives from samsung.
 
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