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Samsung F1 750GB - $125 shipped

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Originally posted by: Elixer
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.
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I bought this drive about a month ago from Newegg and it was packaged very similarly. There wasn't a foam case, it was wrapped in 2-3 layers of bubble wrap instead. Was Clamshell > bubble wrap > peanuts > box. Was very well packaged imo and I think Newegg has certainly listened to customers in regards to packing their OEM drives.


Originally posted by: kki000
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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Yes, that's the other problem listed with not being able to function in SATA2 mode for some older chipsets. Changing it to SATA1 would probably allow it to be recognized, at which point you'd need to disable NCQ in Windows. Certainly a PITA for NV chipsets and something that is completely unsuitable if you plan to boot off this drive.
 
So I assume that those of us that own newer motherboards w/newer chipsets will have no problems (as far as changing & disabling things)?
 
Originally posted by: Tullphan
So I assume that those of us that own newer motherboards w/newer chipsets will have no problems (as far as changing & disabling things)?
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From what I understand its only NV chipsets. On my P6N SLI Platinum (650i) I can boot without issue, drive is recognized, and I can even do some benching and light use with the drive. Anything heavy and the drive locks up the system and isn't recognized on reboot. Only a shutdown and cold boot brings the drive back online. Disabling NCQ resolves that issue, but if you can't get the drive recognized by the BIOS you obviously wouldn't get that far. I'd also check for updated BIOS to see if they help.
 
pretty freakin hot if you ask me,

im gonna pounce when i can get a 750 or 1TB drive for under 100$

still pretty hot
 
Think I am going to wait as well. I want to build an 08 Server and vritualize everything. But with Summer projects coming up(in ground sprinker system, refloor our kitch and entry with wood, dig up and resod our backyard). I just dont have the cash to drop on a pair of drives, MB, Ram, and CPU. 🙁

Ill wait until the 1TB drives hit the 150ish mark. Hopefully by this Fall when 1.3TB drives are out?
 
Originally posted by: Zap
Originally posted by: Zap
Just ordered two of them, to replace smaller 500GB drives, haha. Thanks, OP.
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Got the drives. Interesting how they were packed. these plastic foam objects were floating in a sea of peanuts. HDDs were inside. Is it only ZZF that does these containers? I'm talking about the white padding stuff, not the SeaShell copy.
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The egg should do that. I never ordered from them before, but now, I think I will.
Thanks for the pics!
😎
 
Originally posted by: BehindEnemyLines
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
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I have the exact same problem on a Asus P5K-E motherboard. I'm not suyre what to believe. Something make me think that Vista is unable to report above UDMA Mode 7 in the Device Manager. The transfer rates seem to indicate its running much faster than PIO Mode 4. Did you look at this any further?
 
Pulled the trigger, I have an nForce3 Ultra, so I am sure I will have some issues. But, they say that the tool from Samsung can set the thing manually to SATA 150 (and hopefully back again once I get a new PC). If I do get the thing working, I will post instructions for the nForce3 owners. This thing is a very fast hard drive (probably faster than my 1st gen 36gb Raptor at most things) and priced competitively.
 
Just to report... I have my Samsung HD753LJ working on an older Nforce4 AMD Skt939 with absolutely no problems - in both Vista x64 and Win XP Pro SP3 x86.
 
Just got one.

What's the best way to use these bad boys? Get 2 of them and use them in a RAID 0 configuration? 3 of them in RAID 5?

Maybe I'll get a velociraptor too use that as my primary HD (with better performance) and the Samsung as my secondary harddrive (with more storage).
 
Originally posted by: bradley
Just to report... I have my Samsung HD753LJ working on an older Nforce4 AMD Skt939 with absolutely no problems - in both Vista x64 and Win XP Pro SP3 x86.
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Using the nVidia drivers for the SATA or whatever comes with Windows?
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: bradley
Just to report... I have my Samsung HD753LJ working on an older Nforce4 AMD Skt939 with absolutely no problems - in both Vista x64 and Win XP Pro SP3 x86.
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Using the nVidia drivers for the SATA or whatever comes with Windows?
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I have used both the standard XP drivers and also installed Nvidia's own nForce4 series packaged drivers on XP SP2/SP3. While so far on Vista SP1 I have only used the standard drivers. Only real problem is that even a reasonably configured 64-bit Vista runs like a dog compared to 32-bit, with the identical configuration. This is on a cheapy Chaintech VNF4 board with 2GB. Otherwise the drive itself works flawlessly.

 
System:
XP Pro SP3
Gigabyte nForce3 Ultra Socket 939
Samsung HD753LJ

It has arrived and I have figured out how to make it work with the nForce 3 Ultra.

1. DO NOT install the nVidia SATA / IDE drivers, use what comes with Windows. My system refused to boot with the nVidia SATA / IDE drivers installed.
2. System refuses to reset (does not see the sata drive), do a shutdown instead of reset and you will be fine. When it powers up after a shutdown, it will see it, but it will not see it if you just use reset.
3. This hard drive is insanely fast, even with just the Windows drivers.
4. Samsung's tools (latest from their website) do not work on my machine, says it runs out of memory when I try to boot off the cd🙁
 
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