*****Samsung F4 2TB Hard Drives In Stock*****

This drive should be fine for video editing. I THINK access time is not super important with video since it is only reading in big chunks and writing in big chunks so the speed that say a SSD or a veloci raptor offers would not be hugely important? If it does not perform as well then you could always short stoke it which would speed things up no?
 
Heres some comparisons from the Hard Drive section.

My drives (compare the single F3 1 Tb 7200 RPM and Seagate LP 2 Tb 5900 RPM results):



Samsung F4 2 Tb 5400 RPM (£85):

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WD 2 Tb Green 5400 RPM (£84):

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WD 2 Tb Black (£141, 7200 RPM):

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The 2 Tb samsung F4 is just slightly behind the 7200 RPM drives, while costing the same as the much slower 2 Tb eco drives.
 
how do I test the speeds of my HDD when transfering my backed up Blu Rays it can reach 30 ish but mostly hover around 20, is there a way I can keep them running fast?
 
SoildSnake said:
What this drive only reaches 20-30MBPS isnt that like really slow?
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it's not, I have 3 of these and they can definitely do more than 20-30MBPS. I am now copying a file from one of these drives to another and it's going at 120MB/sec (this is MegaBytes) sustained speed. Transferred 14GB in roughly 60 seconds.

In my opinion though these drives are for storage not transfer speeds only, but they're defintiely quick enough.
 
They're really intended as storage/media drives, but they're great for it. Relatively cool, more than fast enough, and they make noticeably less noise than an F3EG
 
I just bought one of these drives and ran ATTO first thing and got around 140mb read and write from it with the firmware update applied although afaik that has no performance fixes just a bug fix
 
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