Newegg 24 hour sale-Samsung F1 750GB or Seagate 750GB $99.99

[HdwGuy]

Got my Samsung Friday. Huge and quick and so quiet. My boot time and shutdown times went down by a factor of 2. Had old SATA 150 in before. Geat buy.

 

[RallyMaster]

Hot Deals needs stop tempting me to burn money.

 

[cyberia]

Originally posted by: Keitero
I called Samsung up for some other drives I have any they were just like Seagate or WD for warranty. It's based on manufacture date.

So, how long is the warranty in general?

 

[bigsnyder]

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim

Originally posted by: bigsnyder
I would have went one these 750GB drives, but they are probably 250GB per platter at best (the 7200.10 is probably less). I went ahead with the WD6400AAKS to keep the platter count low and the platter density higher.
For just raw storage space, then these drives can't be beat at these prices.

Samsung is at higher densities with 334gb per platter vs Western Digitals 320gb.

I had seen reports in this forum and others that the 750GB models were not using the 334GB platters, but 250GB platters. Only the 1TB drives were supposedly using the newer platters. This could very well be inaccurate, but it is worth investigating.

 

[Keitero]

Originally posted by: cyberia

Originally posted by: Keitero
I called Samsung up for some other drives I have any they were just like Seagate or WD for warranty. It's based on manufacture date.

So, how long is the warranty in general?

Samsung has always been 3 years. Same with WD (standard drives).

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: cyberia
So, how long is the warranty in general?

Samsungs have 3 year.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: bigsnyder

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim

Originally posted by: bigsnyder
I would have went one these 750GB drives, but they are probably 250GB per platter at best (the 7200.10 is probably less). I went ahead with the WD6400AAKS to keep the platter count low and the platter density higher.
For just raw storage space, then these drives can't be beat at these prices.

Samsung is at higher densities with 334gb per platter vs Western Digitals 320gb.

I had seen reports in this forum and others that the 750GB models were not using the 334GB platters, but 250GB platters. Only the 1TB drives were supposedly using the newer platters. This could very well be inaccurate, but it is worth investigating.

It's probably only using 250gb per platter, but it's still the same aerial density(according to Samsung specs).

It's very expensive to come up with a second line of platter manufacturing plants at a completely different platter density. Does Samsung have a line of hard drives at 250gb per platter? Thought their older drives were 166gb or something.

 

[cyberia]

Originally posted by: Keitero

Originally posted by: cyberia

Originally posted by: Keitero
I called Samsung up for some other drives I have any they were just like Seagate or WD for warranty. It's based on manufacture date.

So, how long is the warranty in general?

Samsung has always been 3 years. Same with WD (standard drives).

Originally posted by: Zap

Samsungs have 3 year.

Thank you.

 

[dakels]

BTW I got my Spinpoint F1. Awesome drive, no problems. It rated faster then every other normal 7200rpm drive on Sandra. I am using this as a data storage and raptor as a bootup.