1.5tb internal which one

terryuk22 · 18 Nov 2009 at 11:21

not really the fastest but most reliable to go for
Or is the something new about to come out.

Thanks

jbloggs · 18 Nov 2009 at 11:28

I have the 1.5TB Samsung EcoFreen F2 which I used as 1 of the the HDDs in a WHS box, chose it over the Western Digital 1.5TB Green due to lower price and slightly better performance...

Shash · 18 Nov 2009 at 11:37

Chose the GP as it's supposed to be quieter and I don't care about performance on a storage drive (as long as it is good enough for media uses). TBH reliability wise there's not a lot of point chosing one over the other, luck of the draw! I've had more luck with WD than Samsung personally, but again, it's just a matter of luck (unless you happen to be affected by a bad batch of drives, and tbh neither of these models has a bad batch to my knowledge).

DragonQ · 18 Nov 2009 at 12:59

jbloggs said:
I have the 1.5TB Samsung EcoFreen F2 which I used as 1 of the the HDDs in a WHS box, chose it over the Western Digital 1.5TB Green due to lower price and slightly better performance...

Agreed, although I went for the other one because it was cheaper for me at the time. Either is great, I use mine purely for video and it works perfectly.

terryuk22 · 19 Nov 2009 at 02:26

the samsung is cheap but ive seen on other forums these are dying like flies egg.com i think.

whats the seagate 1.5 like with new firmware

this is only for storage mp3's divx etc

sastusbulbas · 19 Nov 2009 at 19:35

I think all these 1.5tb drives will operate pretty much as equals, sure benchies may show slight point scoring here or there but in my opinion just try whatever.

I went for a WD Green only due to an earlier attempt with an F2 resulting in an RMA, but I am pretty confident it's pretty much an isolated incident, I am sure others will have had a WD problem and so forth, it does not mean one is more reliable than the other just bad luck and I don't believe that common.

terryuk22 · 19 Nov 2009 at 19:53

may just go for 2 samsung 1tb f3's instead

IAmATeaf · 19 Nov 2009 at 20:56

I went for a pair of 1.5tb 7200.11 drives a few months ago and have never had a problem with them, touch wood

terryuk22 · 19 Nov 2009 at 23:59

teaf, did these come with updated firmware ?

IAmATeaf · 20 Nov 2009 at 10:20

terryuk22 said:
teaf, did these come with updated firmware ?

yep, tbh the firmware problems did affect some people but when I looked on the Seagate forums a lot of people were blaming normal drive failures on the firmware problem. It also didn't help that Seagate then released an update which would brick the drive.

I've got around 9 or 10 500gb 7200.11. drives which are affected by the firmware but I've never bothered to update them as they've been working fine, suppose there may come a day when I regret this statement

I'm also thinking about buying another pair of the 1.5tb drives as I'm already running low on space on 1 of them.

terryuk22 · 21 Nov 2009 at 00:15

yea ive decieded just to go for 1 f3 as i have 4 old but 100% Good 500G drives so back up all the crap on these and maybe get a 1.5/2 when something real good comes out no real hurry