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Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

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Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

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Cache: 32MB Average Seek Time: 8.9ms Average Latency: 4.17ms Parts: 3 years limited Labor: 3 years limited
 

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Great bang for your buck hard drive

review by pioneerisloud

Bought two of these bad boys for RAID0 a year ago. I still have yet to have a problem with these drives at all. They're absolutely solid performers. They're not too loud, they're extremely fast (I'm almost always the first to load into a game), and they're 1TB obviously.

Only problem now is the prices, but that's hopefully going to come down sometime soon. I wouldn't buy them until they drop back down to around $80 each or cheaper. But once that happens, I'd happily buy more of these.

ProsCons
Fast, 1TB, ReliableNot as fast as a WD Black

Ratings
Overall5
 
#3 ·
Best HDD for the $

review by sean webster

I got 2 of these in 2010 and after countless terabytes of data they are still going strong.

They have ~115MB/s read and a 14.0ms seek time for me.

Also, you can actually put them in RAID and they won't fall out of the array unlike the WD drives.

I would highly recommend these to anyone!

ProsCons
Fast, reliable, cheap, RAID worksnone

Ratings
Overall5
 
#4 ·
Solid Drive

review by derek1387

This drive is in my LAn rig and works like a charm. Plenty quick, tons of storage, and reliable. I am going to pick up a few more of these to go in my desktop soon and raid them.

Seems to be the best drive on the market for the price at the moment that I have found.

ProsCons
Solid. None

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Overall4
 
#5 ·
Very good, reliable drive.

review by z overlord

I no longer own it since I gave it to my friend, no issues for him there. His brother also purchases one too. At the time of writing this, the price has gone up due to the 2011 Thailand flood, but in the future when people are reading this it won't matter.

I purchased the product in early 2010 I'd say.

ProsCons
Very stable, quiet, good price (when I bought it at least).None, except maybe it's not some raptor but who cares at this price.

Ratings
Overall5
 
#9 ·
Excellent and bang for buck

review by munaim1

I have three of these in RAID 0 and they are very reliable, been running these for the last 8 months and they are excellent.

Here are a few benchmarks:

Samsung F3's in RAID 0 with a 64kb stripe size.

Here are my results.

Full raid 0 without shortstroke:

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Now with a 150gb shortstroke:

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AS SSD benchmark without shortstroke:

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Atto benchmark without shortstroke:

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Overall I would say these drives are fantastic and I highly recommend them.
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10/10

ProsCons
Fast, reliable, cheapNONE

Ratings
Overall5
 
#11 ·
The best drives out there

review by juni
They're now officially Seagate Barracudas.. just so you know.

I bought two recently after good success with my first one, but the drives have different labels on them now and are supposedly made in a different factory.

Still benchmarked around the same for me though, and had identical looking casings and PCBs. One was 140MB/s while the first one and the other in this shipment were 150+
 
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