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Just picked up one of these for a pretty bargainous price, any one have any experience of their performance?
Samsung F1 1TB
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According to the hardware review sites, its exceptionally quick relative to its competitors.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/samsung-overtakes-with-a-bang,review-29767-9.html
For example.
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Fantastic, was almost tempted to pick up 2 but I'm sure I'll get by with one.
Thanks for the review, cool, quick and huge capacity.
Thanks for the review, cool, quick and huge capacity.
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Going to replace my 3x250GB samsung 7200.10s.
Might set them up in a seperate RAID0 partition for gaming
Might set them up in a seperate RAID0 partition for gaming
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I told myself I wasn't going to but the price and performance is unbeatable.
I could flog my current 250GB drives and almost break even.
I could flog my current 250GB drives and almost break even.
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I'll be ordering 50+ within a couple of months. 
was on the verge of ordering 2 x 750s...then saw this for a ton
seems an awesome deal...
will probably get a 2nd in a week as i like 2 copies of eveything
1 in pc 1 unplugged just incase the worst happens
will have to figure out how many drives i need and also sell some of my 250s
sounds odd but may even be able to break even selling 4 250s on the bay and then getting 1 of these instead should also cut heat in the pc and reduce power used
seems an awesome deal...
will probably get a 2nd in a week as i like 2 copies of eveything
1 in pc 1 unplugged just incase the worst happens
will have to figure out how many drives i need and also sell some of my 250s
sounds odd but may even be able to break even selling 4 250s on the bay and then getting 1 of these instead should also cut heat in the pc and reduce power used
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I ordered 2 from here this week for £112 each, I then got an e-mail from another shop a few days later stating a price of £99, I was well gutted.
Performance wise I haven't noticed a difference between them and my other Hdds
80Gig WD caviar 8MB
300Gig Maxtor DM11 16MB
The only major thing I have done with them so far is copy the contents of my old 120Gig drive to one of them. So say I was copying 100Gig to one of them. It took about and hour. Is this good or bad? Could it have been that my old drive was just badly fragmented?
Performance wise I haven't noticed a difference between them and my other Hdds
80Gig WD caviar 8MB
300Gig Maxtor DM11 16MB
The only major thing I have done with them so far is copy the contents of my old 120Gig drive to one of them. So say I was copying 100Gig to one of them. It took about and hour. Is this good or bad? Could it have been that my old drive was just badly fragmented?
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Just did a quick test, Any good?
old WD caviar 80Gig
Maxtor DM 10 or 11 not sure really
50/50 partitioned Samsung F1
old WD caviar 80Gig
Maxtor DM 10 or 11 not sure really
50/50 partitioned Samsung F1
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How do I check? Device manager?
Just ran it again on the first F1(not partitioned)
ran it again on the 2nd drive(50/50 partitioned)
Just ran it again on the first F1(not partitioned)
ran it again on the 2nd drive(50/50 partitioned)
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Excellent results. Average read of nearly 100MB/s is impressive.
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Thinking back to 1997-8 I remember paying £100 for a 10Gig Quantum Fireball lol which is 1% of this drives capacity lol.
