Samsung F1 320GB HDD test!

[Biker]

Thx for sharing the results, Biker. Looks pretty sweet. What was the price on these?

I have doubts whether it beats raptor in real world applications. If you spend your time copying files all day, the STR is nice I guess.

I got mine for £51 each here

I'm not saying that they will beat the Raptors with outright performance, but, for 7200rpm drives, these are pretty damn good and have exactly the same performance as the 1TB F1's...

I'd say from testing these and the 1TB versions that the 640GB version will have very similar performance as well ......

[30 mins more testing]...


Ok.

I tested RAID 0 with an onboard Jmicron controller and was getting 130mb/s max and then tested with an Adaptec 1430 pcie 4x and was getting 200mb/s max but it would not let me select RAID array size..... it was max size only. I think i smell incompatibility with my Adaptec I swapped out the F1's for a pair of WD 120GB's and could select RAID size straight away so I guess the 320GB F1's have issues with the Adaptec 1430SA...