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skypine27

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I'm happy with with Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB.

I notice the Spinpoint F1s don't get a lot of press or reccos around here, but I've had one for about 4 months now and would like to point out my experience.

First, when I ran it with a 680i mobo, I had some problems with the drive. There is a well documented issue where when used on an nvidia chipset mobo, and nvidia Forceware Drivers 15.08 (which I was using) the drive will simply lock up, thus locking up your whole system, when you try to copy large amounts of data to it. The solution is to simply roll back to Forceware 15.01, and the drive works fine. Again this is only an issue on the nvidia 6xx series (I belive limited to the 680i). The drive currently works fine on my new X48 mobo.

Second, the drive is fast. I run 4 HDs, see sig. The Spinpoint is definitely faster in sustained transfer rates than the Segate 750 is. I have not compared it to the 2 Segates in Raid 0, as that would not be fair.

Third, the drive runs cool, check out the SMART temps:

http://img107.imagevenue.com/v...ps_volts_122_902lo.jpg


The temps of the two Segate 500 Barracudas in Raid 0 can not be shown, as Raid inhibits smart monitoring. However, when comparing the temps of two totally idle drives, in a fairly hot system case in a fairly hot room environment (Temp sensor 3 is room temp, 84 F!!) you can see that the Samsung runs much cooler than the Segate 750 barracuda ES. Again, this temp reading is with both drives totally idle. Will try to do a screen cap later with each drive working is *** off.

Forth, to me anyway, it's quiet. Hard to tell in a system with 4 HDs, 2 of which are in Raid 0 for booting Vista. However, when I test copy a large chunk of data using the Samsung vs my Segate 750 (the one not in Raid), the drive noise is less with the Samsung.

So, in summary, I really like the Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB. I've never had a crash associated with it once I figured out the Forceware 15.08 issue. And even then, it never lost data or developed a bad sector. It's faster than my Segate 750 Barracuda ES, and runs much cooler.

When I get home I will post some HD Tach benchs of both drives.
 
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ctbrown

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Originally posted by: skypine27
I'm happy with with Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB.

I notice the Spinpoint F1s don't get a lot of press or reccos around here, but I've had one for about 4 months now and would like to point out my experience....
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I'm actually kind-of wary of the Samsungs these days. Two out of the four Samsungs that I have owned died prematurely. And the Newegg reviews on their 1TB drive are not stellar. Although I will give them credit for being one of the fastest HDs. But I don't need a lightning fast drive because I'm just storing DIVX and DVDs. And I'd rather not take the chance with them again.
 
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octopus41092

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Get the Barracuda, you can check out benchmarks on TomsHardware under charts. I think the Barracuda is the fastest.
 
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houkouonchi

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Originally posted by: octopus41092
Get the Barracuda, you can check out benchmarks on TomsHardware under charts. I think the Barracuda is the fastest.
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I have to agree with this. Not only that but seagate drives have a 5 year warranty instead of 3 so you get a longer warranty too.
 
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skypine27

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Interesting, I checked out that chat on Tomsharsware. Good chart. It's funny, it does say the Segate Barracudas are faster. However, I have both drives (the Segate 750 Barracuda ES and the Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB) and the Samsung is always faster for me. Neither are boot drives, so I can accurately test them.

For example, if I highlight a 200GB folder, and hit copy to somewhere else on the same drive (thus the reading and writing is done from/to the same drive), the Samsung always comes out with faster transfer rates and a lower time than my Seagate Barracuda 750 ES. (testing the copy with the same folder on both drives of course)

I will run HD Tach on both drives when I get home. The Samsung also runs much cooler (see my screen shot of SMART Temps above)

CTBrown:

I understand your reservation after reading the customer reviews of the Spinpoint F1 1TB on newegg. However, understand that most of those bad reviews come from people who ran the Samsung HD utility to detect bad sectors, which does NOT work with the Spinpoint F1, as well as people running a 680i chipset and forceware 15.08. Other people really didnt have a problem. Check for bad sectors in windows after you format it, not with a dos HD utility before hand.
 
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n7

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Samsung F1.

And i own both of those which you linked to (the Seagate & WD).

If you won't go with the fastest one (which is the Samsung), then get the Seagate...it's much faster than the WD, with a longer warranty too.
The WD is nice n quiet though.
 
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Don66

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I have 2 WD10EACS 1TB drives raided.

Not the fastest, but extremely quiet and cool.

 
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coreyb

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I'm happy with my Seagate as well. It's also priced a lot lower too, got mine for $200 + taxes.
 
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mooseracing

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Originally posted by: skypine27
I'm happy with with Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB.
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add another person. We bought 4 of them to move from tape backups to hard drive backups. They were bought from Newegg, so of course packing wasn't the greatest, put inside Rosewills E-sata enclosure, no cooling and they are used every day. No single issues here and I love the speed of them. They cut our backup times down to about 2hrs.
 
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GarfieldtheCat

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Originally posted by: n7
Samsung F1.

And i own both of those which you linked to (the Seagate & WD).

If you won't go with the fastest one (which is the Samsung), then get the Seagate...it's much faster than the WD, with a longer warranty too.
The WD is nice n quiet though.
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Samsung has the fastest 1Tb drive right now.
 
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