Internal HDD dead :(

Badas · 17 Feb 2010 at 14:41

It was only yesterday i was asking about external harddrives that today my Intel HDD has died completely

A while back i have been "Moaning" about my computer freezing, odd sounds and it looks like the HDD was at fault, prety much same time last year.

The HDD is a seagate 500GB which has passed away so i am looking for a replacement (same size) preferably faster running if its possible.

I have been looking at hte samsung spinpoint F3, would this be a good buy?

Thanks

Philtor · 17 Feb 2010 at 14:52

For sure. Samsung F3 without a doubt. Will be my next purchase

eddyc · 17 Feb 2010 at 15:14

Been very happy with my Samsung Eco Green so far. It only spins at 5400RPM but other features make it as fast as a 7200RPM.

stulid · 17 Feb 2010 at 15:29

What features?

JonJ678 · 17 Feb 2010 at 22:52

Lies essentially. It's not as fast as 7200 rpm drives.

I thought the F3 had good read and write times, but poor seek times. Might need to check that though.

Badas · 17 Feb 2010 at 23:24

ordered an f3 should be here 2mo hopefully ty guys

Badas · 19 Feb 2010 at 16:23

Its alive

Now have the samsung F3 installed and its noticable faster than my old drive especially when installing windows 7.

Nice purchase and would reccomend it to anyone and to stay away from seagate

Philtor · 19 Feb 2010 at 16:30

Good job

Yeah Seagate have been very hit and miss for me over the years to be honest.

Badas · 19 Feb 2010 at 19:05

the last 2 harddrives i have had from them died under half a year

i now have to go through the process of sending the old one off again which took me a week or 2 to get one back last time