Samsung has begun shipping its F1 series 1TB hard drive promising the world's highest recording density using only three disks. The Serial ATA 3.5in F1 Series run at 7,200rpm and provide a higher data storage density per platter by using three disks, resulting in faster data processing. Samsung also claims that optimised electronics and power saving modes reduce power consumption and resulting heat dissipation to make the F1 the coolest operating 1TB drive on the market.
"Based on published specs for Samsung's F1 Series and similar products from other suppliers, Samsung's has the best performance and lowest power consumption of any product in its category," said Mark Geenen, president at analyst firm TrendFocus. Perpendicular magnetic recording with Samsung's flying-on-demand head technology improves recording stability over changing temperature ranges, according to the company.
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"Based on published specs for Samsung's F1 Series and similar products from other suppliers, Samsung's has the best performance and lowest power consumption of any product in its category," said Mark Geenen, president at analyst firm TrendFocus. Perpendicular magnetic recording with Samsung's flying-on-demand head technology improves recording stability over changing temperature ranges, according to the company.
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it's generally best to shell out around the 100 dollar area as thats usually the sweet spot for storage/price. i figure $150 tops, anything over that probably aint to wise.
it's generally best to shell out around the 100 dollar area as thats usually the sweet spot for storage/price. i figure $150 tops, anything over that probably aint to wise.
Well, that's a wise notion,...however perhaps you would enlighten us as to the size/speed/technology of drive that is worth around the "$100" mark.
Personally, in the UK, I'd spend next to nothing on storage. It's a saturated market and it's very easy to get good cheap storage.
it's generally best to shell out around the 100 dollar area as thats usually the sweet spot for storage/price. i figure $150 tops, anything over that probably aint to wise.
...not to mention that it's wiser to spend about $100 less for a pair of 500 GB drives (they retail at about $120 CAD) and lose only half of the data if one drive goes kaput, as opposed to losing an entire terabyte's worth of data. (Of course, if 90% of the data on the drive are pirated movies, then...
i agree that that way it is better and cost effective but there are reasons why people will want to buy only one disk. power consumption, space etc. also, this can bring high capacity storage for portable devices!!
initial prices are always high. thats for early adopters but eventually, the technology will be copied, xeroxed (
it's generally best to shell out around the 100 dollar area as thats usually the sweet spot for storage/price. i figure $150 tops, anything over that probably aint to wise.
Well, that's a wise notion,...however perhaps you would enlighten us as to the size/speed/technology of drive that is worth around the "$100" mark.
Personally, in the UK, I'd spend next to nothing on storage. It's a saturated market and it's very easy to get good cheap storage.
well when i said 100 dollar area i was just throwing out a pretty close ball park figure
but yeah, i was just referring to "as big of hard drive as you can get without price going sky high" is what i was basically referring to with the "100 dollar area" stuff
but like i was also saying you could probably get a hard drive in the 50-60 dollar area thats probably quite big for the average joe, say roughly 200GB. as they probably would never use that much storage but me i store alot of XviD movies on my hard drive which is where the majority of my space is burned up (i got a total of 850GB... 250GB - 200GB - 400GB)
it's generally best to shell out around the 100 dollar area as thats usually the sweet spot for storage/price. i figure $150 tops, anything over that probably aint to wise.
...not to mention that it's wiser to spend about $100 less for a pair of 500 GB drives (they retail at about $120 CAD) and lose only half of the data if one drive goes kaput, as opposed to losing an entire terabyte's worth of data. (Of course, if 90% of the data on the drive are pirated movies, then...
Two 3-platter 500GB drives have twice the probability of failing as a single 3-platter 1GB drive and 133% the probability of failing if they only use 2 platters.
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'Are' would be used if 30GB was plural (30GBs).
640KB is enough, no, more than enough.
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Fixed. Really.
'Are' would be used if 30GB was plural (30GBs).
It is thiry gigabytes. Both are accepted.
640KB is enough, no, more than enough.
Of Course! You never need more than 64KB of ram either
I don't like the higher density drives these days, too easy for data corruption I find.
either way i would recommend you run a program called "Prime95" on that pc, run the "torture test" program overnight and if it has 0errors and 0 warnings... then your pc is pretty much stable... if it fails this, that could be the program for the data corruption.
I legitimately bought over 2,000+ DVD movies over the years, & since I cannot stand the fact they get potentially scratched (I decided to start making backups)... My puny 2TB+ of compressed movie storage is still not good enough. It would be nice if 100TB drives were invented, I would rather backup my DVD's in raw format.
i have one 120gb for system. 320 for storage and another 120 for backups.
im looking to buy one 500gb and pair my two 120gb in raid 0 for system.
Raid5 .. so just under 3Tb of usable space with redundancy . .. won't last me too long though, maybe 6 more months or so before i need more space..
Last edited by WolfDV on 29 Nov 2007 - 22:33
mean time between failures up to 1.2 million hrs..?!?!?!?
THAT'S 136 YEARS @ 24 hrs/day...How the hell did they test it?
Beats an average of 5 years at the moment!!!
Surely that CAN'T be right.
p.s. burn your dvd's @ 8x (12x tops in some cases depending on how old your burner is etc) to as thats generally a safe speed to burn 16x rated media at.
p.s.s. im getting this information about the dvd storage backups etc from club.cdfreaks.com forums (they know what there talking about)
Last edited by ThaCrip on 30 Nov 2007 - 05:02
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