Which 1TB HDD?

No reason. Personally, I prefer WD, but I have plumped for an additional 2 Seagate Ecogreen 1TB drives. They seem fine to me. My WHS likes them. I think its best to mix and match makes and types just in case of a problem down the line with a certain batch of drives.
I have never owned Hitachi, but ive heard nothing about them. Probably just a bog standard drive. Nothing special.
 
er well. If you want to spend a little more you should get a WD Caviar Black 1TB. I trust WD more than other manufactureres, seagate drives tend to commit suicide.

Also I can vouch for the speeds, low temperatures and quietness of a WD drive. There is only about £9 in it, for a better choice.
 
I've narrowed it down to the Samsung F2 Ecogreen 1TB, Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB or Samsung F1 Spinpoint 1TB. I'll immediately be partitioning the drive and it will be filled approximately according to the following: Film (60%), Music (5%), Games & Utilities (25%), Photos and Documents (10%).

Budget-permitting, I'm going to get a super-fast small HDD to run the OS off and boot from. So, with that in mind, which of them will give me the best overall bang-for-my-buck?

P.S. I'd love some recommendations for a super-fast small capacity drive to host the OS and several oft-used applications such as Office, Dreamweaver, Photoshop. Don't want to be spending more than £40 for a 250GB, £30 for 100GB etc.
 
Astraeus said:
I've narrowed it down to the Samsung F2 Ecogreen 1TB, Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB or Samsung F1 Spinpoint 1TB. I'll immediately be partitioning the drive and it will be filled approximately according to the following: Film (60%), Music (5%), Games & Utilities (25%), Photos and Documents (10%).

Budget-permitting, I'm going to get a super-fast small HDD to run the OS off and boot from. So, with that in mind, which of them will give me the best overall bang-for-my-buck?

P.S. I'd love some recommendations for a super-fast small capacity drive to host the OS and several oft-used applications such as Office, Dreamweaver, Photoshop. Don't want to be spending more than £40 for a 250GB, £30 for 100GB etc.
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Well I'd get one of the Samsungs as both are faster than the WD Green. The F1 is the fastest but you might as well save a few quid with that use, alternative spend a little more and you can get the 1.5TB one.

There are no small fast drives except for SSD's which cost way beyond your budget. The fastest regualr 7200rpm drives are the 7200.12's from Seagate as they have 500GB platters but the soon as other manufacturers get out the same (Samsung soon) they'll be topped.
 
I've got two Samsungs, and never had a problem. They're also the fastest drives I've ever had, even faster (and by a lot) than a 300GB Maxtor. Also got a Hitachi Deskstar on offer; slightly tempermental (once or twice refused to let my computer boot, but that may have been my fault), not quite as quick as the Samsungs, but was dead cheap at the time.
 
Hi guys

I'm also a bit confused about which one to go for

I see the Samsung F1 is a full 7200 rpm drive
but the "newer" Samsung F2 drives are slightly slower on 5400 rpm.

But for some weird reason these drives are outperforming the F1 why is that?

If I am to use the F2 drives as storage for my music (about 500gb) and my videos about 500gb will I notice a huge difference in speed from my current 2 X 500gb Samsung 7400rpm drives?

Also will that speed affect my networking streaming potential?

Thanks

psd99
 
I was also wondering if 2 X F2 drives in a RAID 0 would outperform read/write speeds on my current 2 X 500gb unraided 7200 rpm drives.......

theoretically is that 2 X RAID 0 setup running at 2 X 5400 rpm?
 
psd99 said:
Hi guys

I'm also a bit confused about which one to go for

I see the Samsung F1 is a full 7200 rpm drive
but the "newer" Samsung F2 drives are slightly slower on 5400 rpm.

But for some weird reason these drives are outperforming the F1 why is that?

If I am to use the F2 drives as storage for my music (about 500gb) and my videos about 500gb will I notice a huge difference in speed from my current 2 X 500gb Samsung 7400rpm drives?

Also will that speed affect my networking streaming potential?

Thanks

psd99
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There's the F1 EcoGreen that is 5400rpm. The regular F1 is faster than the F2 but the F2 is still very quick as it has 500GB platters as opposed to 333GB in the F1's.

The F2's would probably be a little quicker (transfer rates) than your current 500GB drives assuming they're HD501LJ's.

Higher RPM gives lower access times so the drive will feel faster. Throughput is close enough that you don't notice the difference between drives that much.
 
I just cloned my Win7 drive from a Samsung 16MB 320GB F1 to a 1TB 32MB F1 - nice drive. Boot times are slightly quicker as is app loading.

Not much but worth the small price because the 320GB is now a backup drive making all my 3x internal drives F1s and external seagates :D

The F1s also run very very cool. 30degrees average in a hot room.
 
mrk said:
I just cloned my Win7 drive from a Samsung 16MB 320GB F1 to a 1TB 32MB F1 - nice drive. Boot times are slightly quicker as is app loading.

Not much but worth the small price because the 320GB is now a backup drive making all my 3x internal drives F1s and external seagates :D

The F1s also run very very cool. 30degrees average in a hot room.
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Both F1's should be the same speed.
 
The 32MB cache seems to help though, at boot and loading startup items anyway.

Both drives were 0% fragmented.
 
AFAIK, cache is merely for buffering small writes to the drive. I would've thought startup has barely any writing at all, not enough for that increase in cache to make any difference :confused:
It was from 2MB to 8MB cache there was a big improvement.
 
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