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Raikiri

Raikiri

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... yeah, my current HD has had its fair share of use :p

Is the Samsung F1 still the best 1Tb drive around or should I be looking elsewhere?

Cheers :)
 
Smackova said:
I wouldnt go near an F1 with a long pole.

Terrible failure rate, poor platter quality.

Get a WD RE3 instead.
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I hate when people say these things. Either you have had a drive fail on you (it happens) or you seen 1 or 2 posts and make the rest up. To say that these fail and have poor platter quality you would have to have some numbers, graphs and comparisons to make the statement even slightly useful.

I have had 2x1TB, 2x640GB and 2x320GB running for a hell of a long time now and no problems what so ever in case you want to update your figures :D
 
garylouden said:
I hate when people say these things. Either you have had a drive fail on you (it happens) or you seen 1 or 2 posts and make the rest up. To say that these fail and have poor platter quality you would have to have some numbers, graphs and comparisons to make the statement even slightly useful.

I have had 2x1TB, 2x640GB and 2x320GB running for a hell of a long time now and no problems what so ever in case you want to update your figures :D
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I totally agree. There was a similar thread recently and the pertinant point was that when you consider the sheer volume of F1's that have been sold (after all, they've been one of the premium 1Tb drives for a long time now) that getting a few failures is perfectly normal. People tend to home in on several posts saying 'such and such has died' and never realise that the other million or so people who bought them don't post 'my F1 is still working fine...' lol! :)

Let's see some numbers to back up the claims.

And besides, with how cheap Tb drives are these days, get 2 and stick em RAID 1 - easy!
 
There's in my opinion little use for a RAID 1 setup with two hard drives at home.

But aye, WD are heavily outsold by Samsung and Seagate so just by the numbers alone you're going to get more people complain that their [latter company] drive has failed.

Also these are going to stick in mind simply because the angriest people on a forum are those that have just suffered a hardware failure ;)

The RE drives might be a better option than a F1 though, I think there's longer warrenty due to different drive qualities.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
There's in my opinion little use for a RAID 1 setup with two hard drives at home.
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I'm interested to know why you think that?

I use it myself and like the safety it gives my data, as anything other than a fire or flood in the rig should not affect my data. I backup to an external device periodically so as to be absolutely safe. I cannot fathom why you think this would not be of use for a home user, as let's face it most don't back up ever - I would have thought therefore that RAID1 would be of more benefit to most home users!
 
schizo220168 said:
is there a program that tell's you how many hour's your hard drive has done ?
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HD Tune can do it :D

With all the marketing that was done for solid state caps a year or so ago claiming that it was the only way for a motherboard to survive over 15.000 hours or so, you must either have had that in several rigs or Gigabyte needs to change their marketing? I'd really like to know cause i'm getting kinda anxious that 5500 heavily overclocked hours running folding@home for quite a bit of the time would finally start to catch up with me.
 
I've had 6 WD hard disks now:

1x 74 Raptor
1x 300Gb Veloci
2x 1TB WD Black
1x 1TB WD Green
1x 500gb WD5000AKAS (IIRC)

All working perfectly :)

No idea what the 74Gb is up to hours wise, 5 years old!

WD are solid drives :)
 
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