Western Green Power 1TB or Samsung F1

Robert

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Western - £70 - 16mb

Samsung - £68 - 32mb

I want to go with Samsung for the speed but Western have always been so good :confused:
 
Here is what I am planning to buy:

Storage - WD 1TB Green
Windows/Applications - WD VelociRaptor
Documents/Music - WD 1TB Black

As you can probably see, I also love WD and getting different products depending on my use. I have a Samsung 1TB in my PC at the moment and I cannot fault it though. If you plan to run games off the same hard drive, then I would consider the Samsung F1 or the WD Black (over the WD Green) as you will want the extra speed :)
 
Danger Phoenix said:
Here is what I am planning to buy:

Storage - WD 1TB Green
Windows/Applications - WD VelociRaptor
Documents/Music - WD 1TB Black

As you can probably see, I also love WD and getting different products depending on my use. I have a Samsung 1TB in my PC at the moment and I cannot fault it though. If you plan to run games off the same hard drive, then I would consider the Samsung F1 or the WD Black (over the WD Green) as you will want the extra speed :)
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There's some benchmarks on bit-tech that show the VelociRaptor to be pointless and overpriced, and the samsung F1 to be much better in terms of value, and performance wise there's not much difference, with the samsung overtaking it on more than on occasion. :)
 
Robert said:
Western - £70 - 16mb

Samsung - £68 - 32mb

I want to go with Samsung for the speed but Western have always been so good :confused:
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Samsung! They are extremely fast, I regularly get silly fast transfers over my GB network, on average I get 75MB/s when transferring data between my file server and main PC.
 
I bought a WD green power 16Mb cache without being aware of the 32Mb version. It does cost £11 more for the 32Mb cache and 333 density platers vs 250Gb platers and slightly lower power consumption. I just looked up a review of the two amongst other drives:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15769
It still is my fastest hard drive however my next fastest being the 7200.9 Seagate.

I tend to buy the cheapest value for money hard drives which means buying the previous generation tech over the newer (still has 3yr warranty).
 
Samsung all the way. I haven't owned the WD in question, bue the F1 has handled anything I have put to it. No drama at all, does exactly what it says on the tin...

Infact, I have another one on the way as an xmas gift :)
 
Why pay more for less originally I bought an F1 with a view to replacing it with a Black Edition as the price fell, but with a WD5000AAKB for an older machine failing in the first month I bought another Samsung instead.
 
alexhull24 said:
I'd have to say samsung too, my F1 is super fast, and pretty quiet except for a weird pulsating thing it does.
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I thought that was just me. It's around a 0.5 / 1hz pulse which somehow shakes the entire table.
This is worrying me because that implies that the platter might not be perfectly balanced - a good way to burn out the spindle motor if there ever was one. :(
 
Robert said:
Western - £70 - 16mb

Samsung - £68 - 32mb

I want to go with Samsung for the speed but Western have always been so good :confused:
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I'm been Hitachi (500GB x4) for the last couple of years & been very happy, however I've just built a HTPC & put the 1TB Samsung F1 in & I can't even hear it. Reviews around the web show the F1's to be fast & quiet, I've heard a few gripes about potential reliability issue i.e. you either get a good 1 or a bad 1 but in the 2 months I've had mine I can't fault it. :D Oh & did I mention compared to my Hitachi's it's in a whole different league :cool:
 
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