Quick simple question [2TB] .. F4EG VS Barracuda Green?

413x · 12 Jun 2011 at 23:11

looking to buy one of these 2 before midnight tonite,

im not really interested in failure rates as its personal preference, im wondering if the barracuda green justifies its £8 increased cost for any reason?

As this is blu ray storage etc it will be used when watching films so noise is i guess the most important factor.. are either of these two noisey? from what i gather the f4EG is louder but im not sure if its a real life issue?

anyone with personal experience of the noise level?

Surveyor · 12 Jun 2011 at 23:15

Couldn't tell you anything about the Seagate.

I have 4 of the F4's and they're fine.

Can't say that I've noticed them as noisier than any other drive.

If you're using them to store movies for playback then it would have to be a very noisy drive indeed to be heard over the film.

413x · 12 Jun 2011 at 23:20

i guess thats a very good point that im missing, so it seems obvious to go the samsung then i guess, my first samsung hardware besides my blu ray drive!

matthab · 12 Jun 2011 at 23:45

I have 2 F4's in a raid1 and I cant hear them. I can hear my single WD black 1tb more.

413x · 13 Jun 2011 at 00:14

Thanks, decision made, f4eg on its way, couldn't resist the price

matthab · 13 Jun 2011 at 00:20

Make sure you format your partitons in 4k sectors to make use of them.

MikeHunt79 · 13 Jun 2011 at 12:46

matthab said:
Make sure you format your partitons in 4k sectors to make use of them.

Windows 7 does this automatically doesn't it?

matthab · 13 Jun 2011 at 14:26

Dont think it does. When you select format just chose 4096bytes instead of 512bytes

DragonQ · 13 Jun 2011 at 14:40

matthab said:
Dont think it does. When you select format just chose 4096bytes instead of 512bytes

That's not the issue. Formatting as NTFS usually uses 4096 B sectors, which is fine but you need to make sure the NTFS sectors are aligned with the 4096 B physical sectors on the drive itself.

In my experience, SSDs are aligned automatically during install of Windows 7 (if you install to raw drive space) but advanced format HDDs are not aligned when formatted from within Windows. To make sure the drive is aligned, use the Paragon Alignment Tool (can be downloaded for free from the Dell website, there was a thread about this recently so have a quick search). Do this whilst it is formatted but empty otherwise it could take hours!

413x · 13 Jun 2011 at 18:40

I haven't done this on any of my other hdds at all :O.. surely it doesn't matter for a storage drive?