Samsung F1 320GB HDD test!

[ZOMGVTEK]

From what I've read the Hitachi 1TB are fairly reliable.

I hope they are, I have an 8TB RAID6 at work using them, with two hot spares.

Yea, supposedly they are reliable, and i didnt hear about them failing yet... Sure hope they dont, theyre not cheap, and i would kinda like my data.

[TEDY]

grrrrrrrrrrrrr something wrong with hdd?

just got new F1 SAMSUNG 750

[largon]

Got some F1 HD642JJ action:






These things are so quiet.


Raid0 - here I come!

grrrrrrrrrrrrr something wrong with hdd?

just got new F1 SAMSUNG 750

http://shrani.si/?S/rn/Kl7wiX/wtf.jpg

I don't see anything alarming in that ss.

Both my 640GB'ers show exact same numbers which are similar to your's.

[TEDY]

i thought something wrong :P

cause old T1 500GB SAMSUNG didnt have anything yellow :P

where did you get HD TUNE 3.0 PRO?

[largon]

*Cough-cough*
HDTune is a commercial program.
:P

[TEDY]

yeah and i'm prest :P

[largon]

Bad news.
My other HD642JJ died in her crib. All it says anymore is a horrible non-stop clickety-click. There was a slight performance discrepancy between the two drives in HDTach and HD Tune, wonder if that was an omen of things to come?

[Brother Esau]

320GB seems kinda low...
I think I'll get two 640GB'ers and RAID0 them. A pair should be able to cater my needs for speed and capacity until SSDs become sensible.

How do you figure thats a small drive? C:\ Drive should only contain O.S / Programs storage should always be kept on other drives

[XS Janus]

^rule #1!

[TEDY]

largon dead?

[STaRGaZeR]

How do you figure thats a small drive? C:\ Drive should only contain O.S / Programs, storage should always be kept on other drive

Fixed and QFT

[keiths]

How do you figure thats a small drive? C:\ Drive should only contain O.S / Programs storage should always be kept on other drives

320GB is overkill even. You can shrink xp/w2k3 server/vista down to 150-300MB with tools like nlite.

[xlink]

grrrrrrrrrrrrr something wrong with hdd?

just got new F1 SAMSUNG 750

it uses 250GB platters

[largon]

How do you figure thats a small drive? C:\ Drive should only contain O.S / Programs storage should always be kept on other drives

I don't care how fast my OS boots up so I'm good with a single drive or a RAID0 array of two.

largon dead?

Yup. Got one dead F1 640GB here. It was basically DOA since it lived ~2hours.


btw, would you post your F1 750GB HD Tach / Tune benchmark results?

edit:
Audio sample of the dead disc revvin up:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1206532345
(renamed to .txt for uploading as an attachment)

[TEDY]

i will

[XS Janus]

edit:
Audio sample of the dead disc revvin up:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1206532345
(renamed to .txt for uploading as an attachment)

That does sound nice. Maybe you could sell the soind as an electronic beat sample.

[Biker]

Bad news.
My other HD642JJ died in her crib. All it says anymore is a horrible non-stop clickety-click. There was a slight performance discrepancy between the two drives in HDTach and HD Tune, wonder if that was an omen of things to come?

Hmmmm.....

I also noticed a slight performance disrepancy between my 2 sammy F1 320GB drives.

Furthermore, I noticed a difference in the casing (underside) and some solder points even though both drives were virtually seqential in terms of serial number....

I guess 2 (or more) fabs are churning these out and then they are being mixed up when it comes to allocating serial number stickers?

.....answers on a postcard to the usual address

[largon]

The serial numbers of the drives are the same save the last number: the s/n of the drive that's still alive ends in 495 and the dead one is 499 - they're almost identical twins.

HDTach graphs reveal a distinct difference between them, the patterns are totally different:

Blue graph = dead drive

Is this normal for identical drives?

[Biker]

Heres the pic:

2 HD322HJ drives with virtually identical serial numbers:

Spot the 10 differences for a prize

[STaRGaZeR]

Sigly different you said... look at that motor

[Biker]

Sigly different you said... look at that motor

Exactly!

(/sarcasm is now off ;p)

[p8ntslinger676]

this is all i could find... what were the other ones?

[Biker]

this is all i could find... what were the other ones?

The pcb rev (left 07, right 08) and the motor itself

....and there are a few more more minor ones on the pcb... but my pic is not 100% focussed ....

[quake6]

Did I win?

[Biker]

Did I win?

Close, man.

You just missed the pcb rev