***Samsung SpinPoint F4 320GB In Stock***

Reckon one of these would have good characteristics for use as a Photoshop scratch disk? Was looking for something cheapish and quick.....and I'm assuming the excellent transfer speeds would be good for a scratch disk?
 
Installed mine yesterday and im very pleased with the performance. I can hear it seeking at times where as I didn't hear any noise with my old WD Caviar Blue but this is a small price to pay for the speed increase. Total capacity after formatting is 297GB which is plenty for my needs. Use an external LaCie drive anyway to off load music and films which I don't use on a regular basis. Will keep me going until Intel release their next generation SSD's :)
 
philtorrens said:
Installed mine yesterday and im very pleased with the performance. I can hear it seeking at times where as I didn't hear any noise with my old WD Caviar Blue but this is a small price to pay for the speed increase. Total capacity after formatting is 297GB which is plenty for my needs. Use an external LaCie drive anyway to off load music and films which I don't use on a regular basis. Will keep me going until Intel release their next generation SSD's :)
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I got mine to put my operating system on it until ssds come in @ 300gig and a good price. Been pretty happy with it so far.
 
KillBoY_UK said:
I wonder how these compare to a Samsung F1/F3 1TB drives.
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Compared to my F1 1TB, the F4 320 flies! It seems really snappy, and progs such as Photoshop (even with automatic Bridge launch enabled) open in a fraction of the time compared to my old F1 :)

Now use the F4 for OS and apps, and will be using the F1 for games etc. as it's still a pretty good drive.

philtorrens said:
I can hear it seeking at times where as I didn't hear any noise with my old WD Caviar Blue but this is a small price to pay for the speed increase.
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I can hear my drive seeking too, although it doesn't really bother me too much.

I ran Samsungs ES TOOL just to be on the safe side though and it came back with the all clear.

I'm happy with it so far :)
 
Got one of these for the high sequentials to replace my WD AAJS video scratch disk..

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twice the speed and capacity.
 
diverse180 said:
Compared to my F1 1TB, the F4 320 flies! It seems really snappy, and progs such as Photoshop (even with automatic Bridge launch enabled) open in a fraction of the time compared to my old F1 :)

Now use the F4 for OS and apps, and will be using the F1 for games etc. as it's still a pretty good drive.



I can hear my drive seeking too, although it doesn't really bother me too much.

I ran Samsungs ES TOOL just to be on the safe side though and it came back with the all clear.

I'm happy with it so far :)
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good good, ive just order 1 to be a boot drive and a F3 1tb for extra storeage .

the thing is i have my F1 split into 250gb for boot and the rest for games (i have Seagate 11 500gb for movie's and what not)

So will I be able to use HDclone too copy the two partitions from the F1 to the F3 and F4 drives and then change it so they use all the space on the new drives ?
 
got 2 in raid0 for my new i7 build, with hdtach they had a burst read of 290MB/s and a continuous of 190MB/s!

pretty good considering i did the test while running installers as i had just installed windows :P
though whether or not they stay this quick or not is a different story, as once i got all the crucial apps installed it may drop, but we will have to see!
 
Addicted said:
got 2 in raid0 for my new i7 build, with hdtach they had a burst read of 290MB/s and a continuous of 190MB/s!

pretty good considering i did the test while running installers as i had just installed windows :P
though whether or not they stay this quick or not is a different story, as once i got all the crucial apps installed it may drop, but we will have to see!
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nice 290mbs

any images of this? whats it now you arent installing stuff at same time

cheers
 
al4x said:
How to these compare to the 300 gb velociraptor?
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Going by read speed, the Samsung F4 is doing 145-150MB compared to around 120MB on the VelociRaptor. You need to read into it a bit more, as there is more to it than just that however the F4 is going to be miles quieter, cooler running and lower power.
 
Duke said:
Going by read speed, the Samsung F4 is doing 145-150MB compared to around 120MB on the VelociRaptor. You need to read into it a bit more, as there is more to it than just that however the F4 is going to be miles quieter, cooler running and lower power.
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Going from reviews I can see and I can only see the f3 throughput seems higher but access time a lot longer

I'm no expert but I'm guessing the velociraptor is quicker at opening small files and the f4 is quicker at transfers but say you are loading and game level, which is more important as they can obviously be fairly hefty files
 
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