Just did an upgrade of my media PC to increase performance and reduce power consumption, and was looking at a new 750GB HDD to replace a WD 320GB.
Did my research and went for a Samsung HD753 750GB over WD and Seagate models. It was perfect for me.
WD 750GB Green was price competitive and plentiful at suppliers, but sloooooow.
WD 750GB Black was faster than the Green, but pricier and harder to get.
Seagate 750GB was significantly more expensive, and no faster than the Sammy.
But here was the rub; having made the decision to go with the Samsung I couldn't actually find one! Everyone was sold out and were trying to get more stock, and they kept pushing WD Greens at me. They were even sold out of 640GB and 1TB models. Is this just local to me, or are others finding this as well in other markets?
Having now installed it, I can't believe how fast (XP SP2/2.2GHz X2/nF430) boots are from it! It boots significantly faster than my gaming rig (XP SP2/3.0GHz X2/790FX) with a Samsung HD501LJ 500GB. And both are extremely quiet too. I have to say I'm a convert to Samsung drives, they are very impressive.
750GB drives are the current sweet spot IMO. The price jump to 1/1.5TB drives are a bit hard to justify for me with my current storage needs. I've always bought drives at this price point for all my upgrades: 2->8->20->80->200->250->320->500->750GB.
Don't forgot, the 750GB Samsungs have only 250GB platters, not the 333GB platters of the 320, 640 and 1TB models. As a result, the 750GB F1s are considerably slower than those other 3 models that use the larger platters.
Well, I was thinking about putting one of these in my rig to accompany a rapidly filling F1 1TB but by the looks of this article i think i'll just go for another F1 1TB as i've gotta say its a fault less drive from my point of view (not surprising its still the Bit-Tech favourite then really i suppose). Thanks for the article!...Saved me a fair bit of money - yet again!
As the article states, Seagate had cache issues with their 1TB 7200.11 drives. However, these have been rectified, and a firmware upgrade is available for those who have the 'defective' drives.
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Replybut still, i thought Raptors should be faster, they are Raptor and very low random access time
Don't forgot, the 750GB Samsungs have only 250GB platters, not the 333GB platters of the 320, 640 and 1TB models. As a result, the 750GB F1s are considerably slower than those other 3 models that use the larger platters.
See details here : http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/other_downloads/cuda-fw
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