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Samsung F1 750GB - $125 shipped

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Got mine today....ZZF packs them very, very well. Not the fastest or quietest, but it's moderately above average at both. It fits my needs well as I have too many other smaller drives and wanted to consolidate.



 
Just got mine today too, but it'll have to wait until Friday evening for testing. It's packed inside a plastic case which is inside a form case which is inside a box with peanuts.

box + peanuts > foam case (encloses the entire drive) > plastic case (also entire drive) > much better than newegg's packaging.
 
Originally posted by: BehindEnemyLines
Just got mine today too, but it'll have to wait until Friday evening for testing. It's packed inside a plastic case which is inside a form case which is inside a box with peanuts.

box + peanuts > foam case (encloses the entire drive) > plastic case (also entire drive) > much better than newegg's packaging.
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Heck yeah, that is MUCH better than newegg's pathetic packing of OEM HDs.
That alone is enough reason to get it from zzf instead of the egg.

 
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Originally posted by: Muadib
Out of Stock again.🙁
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Damn. I actually had the ZZF page open on my browser and said to myself I'll order it in a couple of hours.
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It's listed in stock for me (just now).
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Yes it's back!! I got one along with a mx-1 to put it in. Thanks BehindEnemyLines!

 
Came up $115 for me just now.
Must be either the new $100 500GB replacement or an AfterHoursSpecial for the sleep depraved -er- deprived.
😀😀😀
 
Originally posted by: Bad Dude
Originally posted by: ricochet
Why is this drive so cheap?
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Maybe they are trying to get rid of the bad old stock.
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"Bad old stock"??
These they're selling are no good?
I'm in the market for a large capacity, fast, quiet drive in this price range & am torn between this & the WD 640GB (2x320gb platters).
 
Originally posted by: Tullphan
Originally posted by: Genx87
So tempting, so tempting
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So true, so true.
I'm still wondering about the "bad stock" thing, tho. :disgust:
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I have two of these already. Both are working great and runs very quiet. I don't see any better hard drive deals anywhere.
 
Originally posted by: Genx87
So tempting, so tempting
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Yes, but so many bad stories of problems with these drives that I just did not want the hassle of dealing with bad drives in my NAS. I am not convinced that the problems with this drive have been worked. The Samsung diagnostic utility will not even work with these F1 drives. Best wait until old inventory clears out and Samsung gets there act together.
 
EDIT: Fixed the problem by moving F1 from SATA port 3 to port 0. All hard drives are now in UDMA6 mode. I am not sure why the SATA port would matter.

Hey guys, just installed it today. I am not sure why, but it's running in PIO 4 mode according to Device Manager. The "Enable DMA" check box refuses to stick even after uninstalling the ATA Controller. The other two SATA hard drive are all in UDMA6 mode. I also one SATA DVD-RW in UDMA2 mode and on IDE DVD-RW in UDMA2 also. Is this compatibiilty problem with NCQ?

Any reason why it's running in PIO mode?

HD-Tach gives:
Burst rate = 185MB/s
Averaged rate = 98MB/s
CPU utilization = 28% <-- rather large? seems to indicate it is running in PIO mode

My other two hard drives get 13% utilization.

HD Tune 2.55
doesn't make a lot of sense if active 8 is greater than supported 7
Supported: UDMA Mode 7 (Ultra ATA/512)
Active: UDMA Mode 8 (Ultra ...) it got cut-off
Minimum: 68.7MB/s
Maximum: 104.3MB/s
Average: 94.3MB/s
CPU Usage: 22% <-- again, seems pretty high

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L f8b BIOS, AHCI mode, Pentium-D 805 🙁, Windows Vista Business
 
Originally posted by: crimson117
I had a flawless experience using it in a new build with an Abit IP35-E motherboard.
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Same with Abit IP35 Pro, silent, fast and very cool running compared to the two other drives present, WD 500 and Seagate 500.
 
WTH, just bought another one. This is even cheaper than last time ($140).
Two 750GB F1 is always better than one 🙂
 
doesnt work with my nforce4 board. Forget about disabling ncq, its not showing up in the bios. It brings everything down to a crawl, from bios to windows.

the pamphlet it came with said something about changing the setting w/ software to 1.5g from 3.0gbs.. but not gonna fu( k with it.

Its working fine on my ip35e.
 
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