Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
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I don't think Ebay counts as being available yet. Ebay is still a pretty shady place to do business. I was getting burned on about 1 out of 4 transactions, even from top rated resellers back when I last used it regularly. It was just too much of a headache to me, I don't think I actually saved any money in the long run when you account for lost shipping charges, at least one product just plain never delivered at all, and so on.
Thats very expensive.
OCUK have the drive listed at £218 inc VAT, which is 312 euro's.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productli ... &subid=940
Special offer this week on the sHitachi 1TB drive - £200 inc VAT.
Andy
OCUK have the drive listed at £218 inc VAT, which is 312 euro's.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productli ... &subid=940
Special offer this week on the sHitachi 1TB drive - £200 inc VAT.
Andy
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Yeah, there's a long time between paper release and real release. But its a matter of days/weeks and the 1TB 334gb platter drives will arive.JazzJackRabbit wrote:640GB model is more attractive than 500 IMO. Two full platters and no wasted capacity.
Too bad it's another paper release. Samsung keeps announcing new drives, but they are yet to be found anywhere.
The 334GB platters are ready to sell, so the 640gb drive will be "easy" to make for Samsung. Take a 1TB drive, take on platter of it, and there you have the 640gb version.
Simple, i guess.
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There would be wasted capacity... around 27 GB. They should make it a 666 GB drive. I'd sell my grandmother to get one of those Beasts (with a capital B). Or should I call it a Devil, Satan or Lucifer instead...JazzJackRabbit wrote:640GB model is more attractive than 500 IMO. Two full platters and no wasted capacity.
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Take a look at pricegrabber.com, which tracks hundreds of stores. No spinpoint F1's listed. There's this little market called the USA that Samsung isn't selling to yet. As far as I can tell they shipped 5 of them to Switzerland and 3 to Australia.SileX wrote:You get the FUD award. It has been available for weeks now. Just buy it!silentbobbo wrote:Samsung gets the vaporware award. Still have not heard from anyone who has actually received a Samsung drive. 6 months and counting. I'm glad I gave up on Samsung and went with the WD.
Actually Samsung gets the FUD award... there are articles talking about how it shipped last June... still don't see any postings from anyone who received one. They really put the Spin in Spinpoint.
You can purchase it NOW in the States here:silentbobbo wrote:Take a look at pricegrabber.com, which tracks hundreds of stores. No spinpoint F1's listed. There's this little market called the USA that Samsung isn't selling to yet. As far as I can tell they shipped 5 of them to Switzerland and 3 to Australia.SileX wrote:You get the FUD award. It has been available for weeks now. Just buy it!silentbobbo wrote:Samsung gets the vaporware award. Still have not heard from anyone who has actually received a Samsung drive. 6 months and counting. I'm glad I gave up on Samsung and went with the WD.
Actually Samsung gets the FUD award... there are articles talking about how it shipped last June... still don't see any postings from anyone who received one. They really put the Spin in Spinpoint.
http://forums.storagereview.net/index.p ... &start=175
THERE ARE ALSO a handful reviews of people who HAVE RECEIVED them weeks ago! Just Search for it and you will find it.
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"Hmm.. 250gb/platter for the 750gb?"
Exactly. Besides STR the access time gives it away.
I am only interested in the 320GB F1. It has amazing low noise and consumption, so it will make a nice final HDD before SSD era for me. I would also consider a hybrid disk, but only 256MB won't do.
Interesting the 640GB looks better with only 2 platters, but retains the extra actuators. Yuck.
Worth mentioning is the S250 series with 3.5" HDD lowest consumption heard of, 3W idle.
Exactly. Besides STR the access time gives it away.
I am only interested in the 320GB F1. It has amazing low noise and consumption, so it will make a nice final HDD before SSD era for me. I would also consider a hybrid disk, but only 256MB won't do.
Interesting the 640GB looks better with only 2 platters, but retains the extra actuators. Yuck.
Worth mentioning is the S250 series with 3.5" HDD lowest consumption heard of, 3W idle.
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Newegg now has the 1000 and 750 gig F1s available as OEM drives for USD $279.99 and $179.99 respectively. That's actually lower than they're selling most other drives of similar capacity for.
I'm interested in the 320 gig though, which they don't yet have. So long as it performs nicely, it should make a good replacement for my Spinpoint 160, which has become rather full over the last few years. I don't plan on replacing my primary desktop for at least another year, and that should be plenty of storage to cover my remaining use of the system, while alllowing me to relegate the current drive to backups.
It certainly took them long enough to release these. I was looking into getting a new drive this summer, but decided to hold out for the F1s, which were supposedly already "shipping". Let's just hope that the other capacities will be available relatively soon. : )
I'm interested in the 320 gig though, which they don't yet have. So long as it performs nicely, it should make a good replacement for my Spinpoint 160, which has become rather full over the last few years. I don't plan on replacing my primary desktop for at least another year, and that should be plenty of storage to cover my remaining use of the system, while alllowing me to relegate the current drive to backups.
It certainly took them long enough to release these. I was looking into getting a new drive this summer, but decided to hold out for the F1s, which were supposedly already "shipping". Let's just hope that the other capacities will be available relatively soon. : )
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Thanks for the heads up. It's nice to see F1 finally getting here. I'm waiting for 640GB model as I said before though.Cryoburner wrote:Newegg now has the 1000 and 750 gig F1s available as OEM drives for USD $279.99 and $179.99 respectively. That's actually lower than they're selling most other drives of similar capacity for.
Here:KenAF wrote:Do we have any real world reports on the acoustics yet?
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Best one overall? Samsung, hands down!
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not that I'm willing to spend that much money, but I was wondering how one F1 would stack up to 4x 320GB laptop drives in raid5?
I'd be willing to guess the laptop drives would be quieter?
but performance would be lower, how much? I'm assuming the high transfer rates found in big drives like the F1 would also be found in big laptop drives?
does anyone have any power figures for the F1 yet? laptop drives are not many watts, but timesed by 4 that does add up....
I'd be willing to guess the laptop drives would be quieter?
but performance would be lower, how much? I'm assuming the high transfer rates found in big drives like the F1 would also be found in big laptop drives?
does anyone have any power figures for the F1 yet? laptop drives are not many watts, but timesed by 4 that does add up....
"I'm assuming the high transfer rates found in big drives like the F1 would also be found in big laptop drives?"
No, tracks are shorter, even if they had same rpm.
There's little point splitting volumes in many drives, besides redundancy. High STR can only do so much before IO/s (related to mechanical latencies) and other things limit. Best combo now is SSD for system and HDD for archives. A larger flash F1 (4-8GB) hybrid would shine. The F1WRC.
No, tracks are shorter, even if they had same rpm.
There's little point splitting volumes in many drives, besides redundancy. High STR can only do so much before IO/s (related to mechanical latencies) and other things limit. Best combo now is SSD for system and HDD for archives. A larger flash F1 (4-8GB) hybrid would shine. The F1WRC.
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