Samsung F1 320GB HDD test!

[w0mbat]

hartware.de (which claimed the first specs of R700 a few days ago) had the opportunity to perform the first test of the upcoming 320GB HDD from the Samsung SpinPoint F1 series which uses 334GB parts.

According to their test the new lill F1 beats every competition hands down with quiet a gap.

read (avg): 90,47MB/s
read (min): 56,67MB/s
read (max): 113,87MB/s

write (avg): 89,19MB/s
write (min): 56,75MB/s
write (max): 110,80MB/s

ms (read): 13,14
ms (write): 6,08

(bench: h2benchw)

source: http://www.hartware.de/review_791.html

[NH|Delph1]

Not exclusive, others have reviews up of the F1 series.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14200

Seems like a great harddrive in any case

Samsung has done its homework.

//Andreas

[w0mbat]

Yes, the F1 1TB HDD is out quiet a while, but this is about the new 320GB HDD with only one platter.

-> exclusive

[NH|Delph1]

Yes, the F1 1TB HDD is out quiet a while, but this is about the new 320GB HDD with only one platter.

-> exclusive

It's actually the same platter in all of the F1 models, but I guess you technically correct if we're to really drag it out.

//Andreas

[largon]

I've had this link in my bookmarks for about 6 months now:
http://geizhals.at/eu/?fs=samsung+spinpoint+f1

I will be really impressed when these pop on that page.

[mstp2009]

It's actually the same platter in all of the F1 models, but I guess you technically correct if we're to really drag it out.

//Andreas

Agreed.

I have a pair of 1TB F1s.

Who cares about a drive w/ just one of the platters? Seriously, we already know how it is going to perform based on the 1TB drives.

[w0mbat]

According to ur logic no one would care about hd3870xt, 9800gx2, 9800gt(x) and so on cause we already know how they will perform -.-

[MpG]

And have we really been surprised yet?

[K404]

Im waiting for these disks to appear in the UK I sooooooo want one (or 4)

[largon]

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.

[i||uSi0n^]

humm which would be better only for windows partition keeping a good balance between price and performance?

2 x samsung 320GB in raid0

or

2 x raptor 74 giga in raid0

[XS Janus]

access time seems to be a bit lower than WD drive, right?

We'll see about the availability issues soon enough...

[roadie]

I have been waiting for this drive for a long time. Already have a Samsung T166 320Gb drive for storage, but want this new one for a game drive. I can then use my 74Gb Raptor as my Windows drive.

[strange|ife]

if they would release a 10k rpm version, goodbye raptor!

[FischOderAal]

if they would release a 10k rpm version, goodbye raptor!

keep dreaming :p

it has good reasons there are no 10k rpm drives with high capazities out there

let's hope the 320 GB F1 doesn't die as fast as many of the 1 TB do (or at least, seems to).

[Zytek_Fan]

I love Samsung

The 1 TB F1 death problem seems to be fixed with a new batch of them

[Lightman]

Im waiting for these disks to appear in the UK I sooooooo want one (or 4)

Why not buy 750GB verison??

I bought mine 3 weeks ago and it's great!
Vista is happy as well - 5.9 score, but this isn't astonishing. What is astonishing is 32-35MB/s copying files from partition to partition on the same drive

Besides this drive is damn quiet

[w0mbat]

Because the F1 750`s & the F1 500´s doesnt use the 334GB platters.

[mstp2009]

According to ur logic no one would care about hd3870xt, 9800gx2, 9800gt(x) and so on cause we already know how they will perform -.-

Bad analogy (not surprising who it is coming from).

Those do not scale LINEARLLY.

Adding platters to a drive doesn't improve performance, just adds space. The drive only reads from one platter at a time, and therefore the platter transfer rates are virtually identical.


Therefore, if you know how one of the 334GB/platter drives performs, you know how the whole series using those platters will perform.

[Starscream]

It's actually the same platter in all of the F1 models, but I guess you technically correct if we're to really drag it out.

//Andreas

actualy its not.

The 320GB, 640 and 1TB version have these new 334GB platters.

the 250GB, 500GB and 750GB use the old 250GB platters.

So if u wanna get these speeds get the 320, 640 or 1TB version.

[K404]

Why not buy 750GB verison??

Because I want RAID but I dont wanna have to pay more than I have to for a 3 or 4 way

[frankR]

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.

[turbox997]

Stop hating guys. This is good stuff, I knew about the 1TB drives and it's reviews, but it's still good to see the 320GB review too.

Being single platter has it's advantages, usually more reliable, and it's shame that Samsung did not make this a 10,000RPM HDD to compete in what used to be the Raptor's territory(the Raptor is becoming somewhat obsolete now due to better technology..obviously as 72000RPM's catch up in performance).

[sokarul]

To bad they didn't compare it to the 7200.11.

[breakfromyou]

To bad they didn't compare it to the 7200.11.

or the 320gb single platter Western Digital...