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Looking for a 1TB

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Saicho

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I'm looking for a few 1TB's to put into a fileserver running Samba for a few users.

I'm more interested in performance rather than how quiet the drive is.

Either way, I was looking at the Samsung F1 but it seems like they do not preform very well in multi-user environments. Although my setup probably won't be more than 3 users at a time, I'm still having doubts.

What do you guys think? Are there better options?
 
As far as i know, for a single drive, there's nothing faster than the Samsung 1 TB right now.

That didn't stop me from ordering my incoming Seagate 1 TB for $200 though...price was too good.
 
I just bought 4 Smasung F1's from Newegg to use as Tape Replacements. All 4 worked great right out of the box and the speed is great. Granted they are being used as esata and its not a multi person enviro. I was getting a Gig copied in just over a minute.

How do the Raid GP WD series drives perform in a Multi user enviro, they seem like they would be better built for the task.
 
Be very careful of new drives, read about each one and get the one with the least bugs or with the bugs that don't affect you. For example, my research of 750GB drives showed:
-Western digital has a bug with the system hanging coming out of hibernate in vista
-Samsung has a bug causing it to hang on NV chipsets unless you manually configure NCQ and also has issues of dropping out of raid arrays (casuing them to degrade or even corrupt)
-Seagate has bugged firmware that causes only part of the cache to be available, but you can flash it with a fixed bios that allows it all to be used (just hope it doesn't die on you during flashing, which, if I am not mistaken, isn't covered by warranty).

I didn't look into hitachi at all. So I don't know what issues they have. I ended up getting the WD
 
Originally posted by: taltamir
-Samsung has a bug causing it to hang on NV chipsets unless you manually configure NCQ and also has issues of dropping out of raid arrays (casuing them to degrade or even corrupt)
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This is NOT good as I will be using these in a raid and I have an NV chipset...

Do the 1TB F1's have this bug as well?
 
I can't speak for F1 or 1TB but my Samsung 250HJ (250GB one platter) drives are happy in RAID0 on 780i. Performance = :thumbsup:
 
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