Been thinking about a new hdd for a while now, think this will be the one I get, thanks for the review :D

Surprised it didnt score a 10, any way it could be improved on?
Its cheap, beats all other mechanical hard drives in just about every test.
Cant see another hard drive beating it before SSD's become the standard.

Otherwise extremely good review as normal.

Nice HDD review.

I've got one of these guys, and I can honestly say it's noticeably faster then all my other HDDs. Beat all my friends at game load times with similarly spec-ed PCs.

A lot quieter and cooler then my other drives as well.

I've got two (and two of the 750GB model, and two of the lesser 500GB model).

Quiet and quick. Shame the read times can't match the write times, but you pay through the nose for that sort of thing.

I bought one a few weeks ago for my new pc, it's big (storage-wise), fast, and silent. The quietness is what I have noticed most (it neither whines nor chatters).

Got 4 of these in my lil readynas, great performance and still all alive and kicking (probably near 6 months+ uptime now) despite what the interwebs may say about reliability.

I have one of these, can copy from a 320GB WD and a 5400rpm laptop drive at the same time with good speed. Just wish I could afford a few more and a RAID card.

yup - i have one too, and it is very fast. A lot faster than my old WD 250GB drive that was my main drive for over two years, this just blows it away. nice to see that i actually chose the fastest one, cos in all fairness, i actually just went for the cheapest 1TB i could get my hands on, and i paid less than the quoted price too.

Aria.co.uk had it for £67.99 + P&P over two months ago

Interesting review - makes the Raptor seem overpriced - makes me wonder if my 640gb F1 is twin platters?

Originally Posted by p3n
Got 4 of these in my lil readynas, great performance and still all alive and kicking (probably near 6 months+ uptime now) despite what the interwebs may say about reliability.

Mechanical HDD's are reliable despite all those common bullshits spread all over the internet. They are reliable as long as people are not kicking them around or use them in terribly filthy cases. In fact most of them are failing due mistreating or improper use - like when some moronic cheapskates use small HDD's in servers(80GB drive with small cache, running 24H/7D = murder).

do you guys at Bit have any 1.5TB drives in house for testing?from what I've seen (at least on the seagate model) is that they're the same $/GB as 1TB drives ($0.19/GB here in NZ), but I'd like to see some performance comparisons before whipping out the wallet on one.

AFAIK, Harry is getting the 1.5TB Seagate in (I've certainly asked him to do so). :)

hmm, our file server here at work is showing it's age (4*160Gb drives), perhaps I can get my boss to spring for four of these...

I use three of these 1Tb drives in my PC. Two as my Windows/apps/games one which are set in RAID 1 and the other as a dump drive..

Nice and quiet, and cheap for what they are...

Originally Posted by Arkanrais
do you guys at Bit have any 1.5TB drives in house for testing?from what I've seen (at least on the seagate model) is that they're the same $/GB as 1TB drives ($0.19/GB here in NZ), but I'd like to see some performance comparisons before whipping out the wallet on one.

Seagate are shipping us the drive today - review incoming!

Great review, thanks!

I know what my next drive is going to be :)

Been looking for a new drive, 250gbs just isnt cutting it for me. was looking at 650gbs but i can go for a TB especially for 100 bucks

I can't believe raptors got beaten up in almost all tests.
So, my next gaming rig will have a couple of Intel SSD in RAID0 and one of this Samsung for data.

Thanks bit-tech

Does it show as 1000GB's in Windows?

Originally Posted by Arkanrais
do you guys at Bit have any 1.5TB drives in house for testing?from what I've seen (at least on the seagate model) is that they're the same $/GB as 1TB drives ($0.19/GB here in NZ), but I'd like to see some performance comparisons before whipping out the wallet on one.

Can they do 1.5tb in 3 platters yet? I got the F1 originally because it was the only tb drive on 3 platters (less heat, energy etc)

This looks like a good companion for my 320gb Samsung T166. I'll add it to my xmas shopping list :)

Picked one of these up a few days ago, great drive :)

Originally Posted by Denis_iii
Does it show as 1000GB's in Windows?

Well, 931GB because of the whole 1024 thing, but windows has no problem with it.

I'll add to the list of happy customers. Fast drive, well worth the cash!

I have the 500GB version, filled in 2 months time. I need more space...

I've got a RAID array of six 500GB Spinpoints and they're fantastic drives. I can't fault the Spinpoints at all and I don't think I've seen anything less than high praise in any review for any size of drive.