Samsung hard drives any good?

phill9800

phill9800

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Cos I've just bought a 250Gb model for my gaming rig!! :p

I thought I should have gone for a Seagate, but I heard something about motor problems?

Just a thought...
 
I have 6 samsung drives in 3 different machines,they are great never had a problem with them and they are nice and quiet and seem to run cool.I wouldn't use anything else.
 
Bought a 160gb ide and a 250gb sataII and both have been cracking.

The RMA process is fantastic as well I've heard.
 
My samsung is superb, faster and MUCH quieter than my Seagate which is horribly loud :o. Whenever there is a virus scan you know when it's scanning the Segate drive
 
Good drives. I have built two pc's using Samsung Spinpoint 160gb drives and i must say they are quieter and seem to be quicker than my Maxtor Dmax 10's. I will be swapping mine out for Spinpoints soon.
 
Yep I'm running a 250gb Samsung Spinpoint and its much quieter than the 250gb Seagate drive running along side it. The Samsung also runs abouts 20% cooler aswell.
 
I've been a bit wary of Samsung drives until now but I have to say that the Spinpoints seem very good. The Seagate 7200.10 is about 20% faster according to Sandra but it is that bit noisier when accessing.

Jonathan
 
Again, no problems here - 2 x 120GB and 2 x 300GB in use no problems so far. The 2 x 120GB drives have been moved through four different systems so far and still working no problem.
 
Thank you for all the positive feed back :D

I dont think I'll be short of storage when I do order the ones I'm after, but I thought, I'll buy two more so I can just do a straight backup of them regardless :D What the heck!! :lol:

Are they worth raiding if I'm looking for just pure speed? I was still tempted by a 2x120Gb drives for the games and then 2x80Gb drives for windows :D I know its not great price per Gb, but I just thought it was cheaper and probably just as fast as the Raptor :)

Would I be nearly right or miles away on that one?
 
If you're after speed then RAID0 is the way to go as this stripes the data across the drives so effectively it sums the performance of the drives. That's the theory, real-world figures will be lower but still significantly higher than using the drives singly.

<added after a bit of thought>If you're going to buy four HDDs anyway and if your mobo will handle it, give RAID5 a thought. This splits the data across all the drives so read performance is very high and you also get resilience in case of a drive failure. According to Sandra, 4 drives in a RAID5 on my DS4 mobo was 2.5x the performance of a single drive.

Jonathan
 
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If you're after speed then RAID0 is the way to go as this stripes the data across the drives so effectively it sums the performance of the drives. That's the theory, real-world figures will be lower but still significantly higher than using the drives singly.

<added after a bit of thought>If you're going to buy four HDDs anyway and if your mobo will handle it, give RAID5 a thought. This splits the data across all the drives so read performance is very high and you also get resilience in case of a drive failure. According to Sandra, 4 drives in a RAID5 on my DS4 mobo was 2.5x the performance of a single drive.

Jonathan
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Be wary of mobo based RAID5, it offloads the parity calculations onto the main CPU so writes tend to be very slow in comparision to single drive speed, possibly as low as 15Mb/s. If you just want storage then this might be acceptable but the last thing you want is a swap file on a drive that slow.
 
bought one 120gb samsung spinpoint p80/90... never again. used speedfan to find info on it, performance is less then 20% and fitness is over 80%

very quiet but never again

only had the drive over a year.

maybe i was unlucky and got a bad one
 
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To be honest, the 4 big drives I will be having, two will be used, the other two will be just used as backups so I wont have them connected up hardly at all, unless I need to backup the data because of a few more Gigs of music or video's I've encoded :D
 
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