1TB Western Digital and Samsung

Danger Phoenix

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I have been keeping an eye on the dropping prices of the Samsung 1TB drives, but unfortunately I have always had and liked Western Digital. So, I was wondering why is the Samsung one now around £93 whereas the WD is still £125?
 
I was in the same boat as you (loyal to WD), i've bought 9 Samsung drives over the last 2 years or so, not had any issues whatsoever

WD are always a bit steeper than the competition

WD and Samsung are both top makes imo.
 
If anything the Samsungs are faster and cheaper, that should be the deciding factor :)

I have 2 x 1TB Samsungs and they are the fastest and quietest I have ever used. Transfer rates are higher than that of a Raptor.
 
WesleyBurns said:
If anything the Samsungs are faster and cheaper, that should be the deciding factor :)QUOTE]

I have to say for me reliabilty is my deciding factor, especially with such large drives a failure without adequate backup would be a disaster.

I was worried reading the other threads regarding the Samsung 1TB drive and the errors that were showing up on the disc scans. I'm not sure if this is down to software incompatibility but it worried me.

Am still deciding if to go Samsung or pay a little more for WD. Or even go smaller to something like WD640AAKS

Deks
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But I was wondering if there is actually any reason why WD's prices are not being dropped?
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I guess WD have a pricing strategy and the likes of Samsung have there own profit model. Maybe Samsung are on a smaller profit margin to muscle into that sector of the market.

Who knows

Deks
 
i think we're seeing more problems on here with samsung drives becuase everyone is buying them, more drives = more problems

you aren't going to get that many people come on here and create a thread called "my samsung drive is running o'ok"

personally, i trust them


but i don't trust maxtor/seagate/ibm drives based on personal experience, as said before, everyone will have a different opinion
 
bledd. said:
i think we're seeing more problems on here with samsung drives becuase everyone is buying them, more drives = more problems

you aren't going to get that many people come on here and create a thread called "my samsung drive is running o'ok"

personally, i trust them


but i don't trust maxtor/seagate/ibm drives based on personal experience, as said before, everyone will have a different opinion
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Good point Bledd. I guess that applies to most hardware here :)

BTW just looked and the damned Samsungs are on special offer "this week only" at £78.99 ex vat !

Its getting too tempting to hold out

Deks
 
I bought 2 x Samsung F1 1TB and it much quieter also cheaper to buy -- Samsung using 3-platters as WD using 4 or 5 platters... it seem good run on SpinPoint F1..
 
interesting thread - as other are - i am a WD man all the way, always have been but a couple of those 1TB sammys in a new NAS i am putting together sounds fantastic for the price.
 
Deks said:
WesleyBurns said:
If anything the Samsungs are faster and cheaper, that should be the deciding factor :)QUOTE]

I have to say for me reliabilty is my deciding factor, especially with such large drives a failure without adequate backup would be a disaster.

I was worried reading the other threads regarding the Samsung 1TB drive and the errors that were showing up on the disc scans. I'm not sure if this is down to software incompatibility but it worried me.

Am still deciding if to go Samsung or pay a little more for WD. Or even go smaller to something like WD640AAKS

Deks
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I've had a WD go stone cold on me before, so all is fair in the HD business. I guess any disk can die at any point. As for my Samsung 1TB drives, they are good so far.
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the samsungs have higher platter density which makes the disk fast and has 3 platters which is one less than most of the WD making it more reliable and cooler. look at the tom's hardware charts for the 1TB samsung F1, its miles ahead of anything!
 
I've got a couple of Seagate FreeAgent externals, and have to say I'm really pleased with them.

If you are happy to consider externals, these have been fantastic. They run silently, don't get particularly hot and so far have been fast and reliable.
 
I've built 25 Netgear ReadyNas NV+ in the last two months, all of them populated with Samsung drives (about half of them with 500 GB ones, the rest with 1TB-ers).

So far none of them have showed any worrying signs. I know that two months of use and 90-100 drives has about zero statistical value, but they really give me good vibes.

They're faster, quieter, colder and consume less energy than the "usual suspects" for this kind of use, the Seagate STxNS Barracuda ES.2 and the WDx Caviar RE2.

Time will tell if I was right buying a bulkload of these drives or I've just set a time bomb that's going to explode in my face six months down the line, but at the moment I'm really impressed with the price per I/O, power profile and acoustic performance of these drives.
 
Another WD Fan :D

I've got a 6.4GB WD Drive thats been in and out of PC's like a yoyo for years, slinged accross the carpet and the seal broken, so it's now sealed with Tape. Regardless of the abuse and ridiculous numbers of formatting, it lives on and I still use it for testing old kit that I get my hands on now and then.

I have never had a single WD drive fail on me, even the one in this example which quite frankly deserves to die soon. Had 2 troublesome seagates, too many Clicking Maxtors, and found Samsungs are quiet when new but soon get flippin noisy.
 
Why do people rate the Samsung F1's so much? (apart from them being cheaper) From what i've seen the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB drives are the fastest... like here for example on Toms.

Am i missing something?

EDIT: Ok ignore this, i just got to the Read Speeds on that Tomshardware review lol. But the access times and bandwidth are better on the Seagate.
 
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BTW ... the WD 1TB drive is 5400 RPM, not 7200 RPM. But it uses around half the power as the other 1TB drives.

From Tom's:

Western Digital, with a radically changed product concept. The Caviar GP, which stands for Green Power, only operates at slightly more than 5,400 RPM, but cuts hard drive power consumption in half. Despite the lower speed it performs adequately
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