Nice reliable 1TB drive

Hamster · 16 Jul 2008 at 11:20

Looking for a new 1TB drive to store my ripped music collection on. Will be doing encoding to different formats on that drive so i guess a decent read and write speed would be useful.

I've had good experience with Seagate drives in the past and would like a minimum 5 year warranty.

Any recommendations for a decent value for money drive that fits the bill please?

JM

thewanted · 16 Jul 2008 at 11:24

Get a Seagate then? They're not priced too dearly over the Samsung F1s if you look around.

Hamster · 16 Jul 2008 at 11:46

There seems to be 2 varieties of 1TB hard drive at the same price bracket:

ST-310005N1D1AS-RK

and

ST31000340AS

Is either of these better than the other?

TaLLyJ · 16 Jul 2008 at 11:51

Why not go for the Samsung F1?

Hamster · 16 Jul 2008 at 11:54

I've heard too many bad reports about that drive which don't fill me with confidence. Also it's only a 3 year warranty.

MikeHunt79 · 16 Jul 2008 at 11:57

Go for the F1

Pilky01 · 16 Jul 2008 at 13:39

MikeHunt79 said:
Go for the F1

Exentia · 16 Jul 2008 at 13:41

Ive had my 1TB seagate (cant remember which one) for about 3 months now, constantly in use and silent as a mouse. I will always go Seagate for the extra warranty and that fact that none of my drives have failed in about 3 years (hope i havent jinxed myself) totally your decision though.

Slackworth · 16 Jul 2008 at 14:09

JoeMama said:
There seems to be 2 varieties of 1TB hard drive at the same price bracket:

ST-310005N1D1AS-RK

and

ST31000340AS

Is either of these better than the other?

They are the same drive but the ST310005N1D1AS-RK comes in a retail box with cables, screws, software and instructions etc.

Hamster · 16 Jul 2008 at 15:48

Exentia said:
I will always go Seagate for the extra warranty and that fact that none of my drives have failed in about 3 years (hope i havent jinxed myself) totally your decision though.

Same with me. Although all drives have failure rates and no major conclusions ought to be drawn, i've had ibm, hitachi, maxtor, wd, samsung, fujitsu and seagates in the past and the only brand without a fail is seagate. WD have also proven very reliable for me apart from the one DOA raptor i had.

Slackworth said:
They are the same drive but the ST310005N1D1AS-RK comes in a retail box with cables, screws, software and instructions etc.

Brilliant. Thanks for the info. I was on hold to technical support (Holland) for about 10 minutes until i realised i had called Western Digital instead of seagate

i then emailed seagate but you beat them to it!

bledd · 16 Jul 2008 at 16:14

all newer drives have the same failrate tbh..

it's just that loads of people are getting the samsungs because they're so cheap,

you hear a lot more 'omg my drive is broken' than 'omg my drive is working fine' with any product, if people are happy, they don't post about it

i own 7 samsung drives and have installed about 7 more (within last two years) not had a problem

it's not like when IBM went through a really bad patch of drives

NickK · 16 Jul 2008 at 16:26

Why not encode etc on a seperate faster drive then store on the 1TB?

The Asgard · 19 Jul 2008 at 15:08

Samsung F1's run cool and quiet. Always a good sign if you want a reliable drive. On top of this they use very little power. With my QNAP 409 Pro with 2 drives in spin down the unit only uses 18 watts. With the drives running it was about 27 watts with heavy activity.

Hamster · 30 Jul 2008 at 01:34

OK gone with the suggestions and ordered a few F1's. I spoke to the returns dept of a large retailer today who checked the faulty returns on both brands and told me that they were both less than 1% with samsung being only slightly higher than seagate so that's good enough for me. It appears a lot of the early returns were due to incompatibility with certain gigabyte motherboards but that issue seems to be resolved now.

bigredshark · 30 Jul 2008 at 13:54

The Asgard said:
Samsung F1's run cool and quiet. Always a good sign if you want a reliable drive. On top of this they use very little power. With my QNAP 409 Pro with 2 drives in spin down the unit only uses 18 watts. With the drives running it was about 27 watts with heavy activity.

True, if you're concerned about power though the Western Digital GP drives are the way to go, they take a performance hit for it but they're very efficient. Easy choice for a home NAS where speed is irrelevent. I'd probably go with them for data storage as well, something else for a working area though...

AbsenceJam · 30 Jul 2008 at 17:24

The GP's don't even use 3w less power and you pay a lot more so the Samsung drives are more economical and perform better.
I have two Samsung EcoGreens F1 that should cost the same as the regualr F1's when they arrive here and use less power than the WD GP's.

marscay · 30 Jul 2008 at 17:40

bigredshark said:
True, if you're concerned about power though the Western Digital GP drives are the way to go, they take a performance hit for it but they're very efficient. Easy choice for a home NAS where speed is irrelevent. I'd probably go with them for data storage as well, something else for a working area though...

the GP drives are very nice for storage, got 8 x 1TB RE2 GP's in Raid 5 for my server and i just can't fault them at all and got them @ a nice price before they increased

.....TLER and 5yr warranty too

Xtrema · 30 Jul 2008 at 23:23

The Asgard said:
Samsung F1's run cool and quiet. Always a good sign if you want a reliable drive. On top of this they use very little power. With my QNAP 409 Pro with 2 drives in spin down the unit only uses 18 watts. With the drives running it was about 27 watts with heavy activity.

They are indeed quiet. I can't hear mine at all and it's on the desk next to me.