How many platters in Spinpoint F1 500gb

OCUK are sending me a 500gb F1 instead of the original 250gb Samsung I ordered because of an issue with my order that has been ongoing since March. Just as I was beginning to lose faith in Ocuk, they pull this trick from the hat!
 
semi-pro waster said:
Two platters, they use the 250gb platters rather than the 320gb platters of the 320gb/640gb/1tb drives.
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I believe all the F1's use the 334GB platters, just with only part of them enabled depending on the drive. THhs would make sense as prior to the F1's their disks used 166GB platters, there weren't any with 250GB ones.
 
My apologies, having re-checked it appears they do use the 334gb platters. Seems stupidly wasteful to me to disable ~160gb but there you go, no-one said they had to make sense. Still two platters so I was partially right but wrong on the capacity. :o
 
From what I've read it makes no difference for them to produce the bigger sizes and then lock them off, and it also means that some can also be 'speed binned' if they're not good enough for the full whack but perfectly fine for lower capacities. Not sure how they works but hey...
 
AbsenceJam said:
I believe all the F1's use the 334GB platters, just with only part of them enabled depending on the drive. THhs would make sense as prior to the F1's their disks used 166GB platters, there weren't any with 250GB ones.
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no they use 2 250gb platters, and the 750gb uses 3. The F1 drives to buy are the 1tb, 640gb and 320gb as they all use the 320gb platters and are much faster than the other 2
 
I know that the size in use is 250GB per platter as I've already said, but I've read a lot including info from Samsung that says all the drives are based around the 334GB platters even if the full amount isn't used. They're evidently getting excellent yields with the 334GB platters hence the low price of the 1TB disk so this makes a lot more sense than them developing and producing both 250GB and 334GB platters for the F1 series at the same time.
 
SpudMaster said:
no they use 2 250gb platters, and the 750gb uses 3. The F1 drives to buy are the 1tb, 640gb and 320gb as they all use the 320gb platters and are much faster than the other 2
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OCUK dont sell the 320? only 640? :confused:

EDIT: Nevermind I just read the other thread lol (no eta for 320 xD )
 
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I don't think that Samsung makes 250GB platters specifically for the 250GB, 500GB and 750GB models, I think they would use the same 334GB platters and just short stroke them, but I have looked to get confirmation on this in the past and could not find it.
 
Dutch Guy said:
I don't think that Samsung makes 250GB platters specifically for the 250GB, 500GB and 750GB models, I think they would use the same 334GB platters and just short stroke them, but I have looked to get confirmation on this in the past and could not find it.
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The drive arrived today and it gets 80mbps sustained data throughput so it's almost certainly using 250gb platters. The 334gb platters get around 96mbps+
 
AbsenceJam said:
all the drives are based around the 334GB platters even if the full amount isn't used.
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Benchmarks show that the 500GB and 750GB drives are slower, due to having a lower platter density. They *definitely* have 250GB platters.
 
mrochester said:
The drive arrived today and it gets 80mbps sustained data throughput so it's almost certainly using 250gb platters. The 334gb platters get around 96mbps+
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They wouldn't necessarily start at the outer edge, two 750GB's I have manage as much as 94MB/s on a very old SATA controller. I received 4 today which I'll be using to build an array for a friend, I just tested one on the same system and it got 81MB/s. Strikes me as a little odd if they're all the same and the one I just tested has a newer firmware.
 
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