Samsung announces the EcoGreen F4 1.5TB & 2TB hard drives

[onethreehill]

Samsung Electronics has today unveiled to the world its latest EcoGreen series storage products, the 1.5TB and 2TB EcoGreen F4 3.5-inch hard drives featuring three 667GB platters and a 23% lower power consumption in standby compared to their predecessors (F3EG models).

The new drives have a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, 32MB of buffer memory, Native Command Queuing, and make use of the SilentSeek and NoiseGuard technologies for a quieter operation.

"Storage-hungry multimedia professionals, gamers and home PC users continue to increase the amount of video, music, photo and other personal data they store and back-up," said I.C. Park, vice president, Storage Sales, Semiconductor Business, Samsung Electronics. "The F4EG delivers all the benefits of a low-power drive yet features top performance quality and is environmentally friendly."

http://www.tcmagazine.com/tcm/news/h...tb-hard-drives

[Johnny87au]

thanks mate, wonder if their faster then the f3's? i know power n noise is alot better but yeh..

[madcho]

666gb/plater, was long, but it's good stuff

[Origin_Unknown]

i wonder how they perform in a raid enviroment?

[RPGWiZaRD]

Performance should be about same (prolly slightly slower 108~112MB/s vs 116~119MB/s) as F3 if the trend continues (this is a F2 replacement, F2 is 500GB & 5400rpm and ~85MB/s avg reads). 5400rpm & 667GB F4 vs 7200rpm & 500GB F3. That's some really tempting storage drives tho, I'm glad I waited a bit b4 picking up another 1.5/2TB drive to replace my aging 4x Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB. xD

From the article:

Both the 1.5TB and 2TB EcoGreen F4 HDDs are set to start shipping in September and cost up to $119.99.

Hmm, that has to be worded wrong $119.99 for 2TB sounds like too good to be true.

[Nintendork]

Current WD Green 2TB is about $139. For 3 platters $119 should be doable.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Current WD Green 2TB is about $139. For 3 platters $119 should be doable.

Oh prices have dropped that much on 2TB already? Samsung is usually cheapest and Ecogreen F2 1.5TB version can be had at newegg for $89.99, so I suppose it could be possible especially for 3 platters that it jumps right there at $119.99. If that's the case sign me up for one.

[Nintendork]

Oh, WD Green is now $119 xD.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136514

I was waiting some tree platter offers to add 2 more drivers for my 1080p small collection.

[RPGWiZaRD]

I swear it costed a lot more last time I checked. But after reading some more it seems like WD silently updated the 2TB drive with 667GB platter version recently, which would explain the price drop.

[PrometheusCon]

Oh, WD Green is now $119 xD.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136514

I was waiting some tree platter offers to add 2 more drivers for my 1080p small collection.

And it was $100 with a coupon a few days ago!

[zanzabar]

Oh, WD Green is now $119 xD.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136514

I was waiting some tree platter offers to add 2 more drivers for my 1080p small collection.

because every1 wants a WD black/re4 that failed testing.

this should be good but i would like to see it at $100 as the f3g is $120 now and this has less platters.

[Serra]

Alright, another player in the "eco" arena for the 666GB platters! Hopefully that will put everyone on track for a late Q3/Q4 release of some 7200rpm drives - preferably 4-platter - to distinguish their brand.

[onethreehill]

because every1 wants a WD black/re4 that failed testing.

this should be good but i would like to see it at $100 as the f3g is $120 now and this has less platters.

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB is $100 @newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152245

[madcho]

nice price. let's wait for 3TB, 7200rpm hard drive.

[AAbenson]

...does that translate to 1200Gigs and 1800Gigs for the 3 platter when formatted...

[blindbox]

http://www.google.com.my/search?q=66...ient=firefox-a

2 trillion bytes. In hard disk world, yes, that's 2 TB.

It's more on the fault of calculation hard disk makers considers 2 TB as 2 trillion bytes, while computer calculates 2 199 023 255 552 bytes as 2 TB.

Anyway, to answer your question, yeh, 1.8 TB once formatted (and 1.8 TB as well before formatting).

[Metroid]

These drives had another price drop on Thursday.

[AAbenson]

http://www.google.com.my/search?q=66...ient=firefox-a

2 billion bytes. In hard disk world, yes, that's 2 TB.

i dont understand what youre talking about
just thought that the OP may know if its real 2tera or the same marketing crap like the current (F2,F3 samsung) situation with no real 2T

anyways Samsung has a history of mixing up models with different platter capacities like for example the F1 series had models with both 333Gigs(unformatted) and 250Gigs(unformatted)
...im just wondering how do they arrive at 1.5tera- be it formatted or unformatted,if all new platters(667 unformatted) then 2 platters are not enough to get you to 1.5 tera even less so if formatted.
at least the current 3 platter F3/F2s give you 1.5tera when unformatted and around 1380gigs being useful.

WD has also started using the 667 platters in their green line.

[Nintendork]

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB is $100 @newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152245

Great! Now I need them in my country ASAP xD.

[Tech Dav]

it seems like it's been stuck on 2TB for years , how come ?

[RPGWiZaRD]

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB is $100 @newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152245

Wow, good price, I bet over here they are gonna cost 100 - 110 EUR. I could use one though to replace my 4x300GB Maxtor DiamondMax10, some retirement could be useful after 4-6 or so years of almost 24/7 use. :p

[Nikolasz]

it seems like it's been stuck on 2TB for years , how come ?

Agree 1 saw my uncle using 1tb hardrive 4 years
Where are 10tb drives?

[RejZoR]

Why EcoCrap, why not SpinPoint F4 2TB. A motherf**king fast and big drive!?

[turbox997]

i dont understand what youre talking about
just thought that the OP may know if its real 2tera or the same marketing crap like the current (F2,F3 samsung) situation with no real 2T

anyways Samsung has a history of mixing up models with different platter capacities like for example the F1 series had models with both 333Gigs(unformatted) and 250Gigs(unformatted)
...im just wondering how do they arrive at 1.5tera- be it formatted or unformatted,if all new platters(667 unformatted) then 2 platters are not enough to get you to 1.5 tera even less so if formatted.
at least the current 3 platter F3/F2s give you 1.5tera when unformatted and around 1380gigs being useful.

WD has also started using the 667 platters in their green line.

It's standard practise, as the poster above defined 1 Terabyte, it's not just Samsung's "evil marketing scheme", all HDD manufacturers use the same calculation to present their HDD's.

Samsung doesn't have a history of mixing up platters either, again standard practise by all makers(WD, Seagate, Hitachi.etc), same thing, I'll use WD as an example of how they do the same thing, the first generation "Black" drives featured up to 333 GB platters, but did all Black drives make use of the full 333 GB platters? No.

Ie: WD Black 500 GB(250GB platters), 640 GB(320 GB platters), 750 GB(250 GB platters) and 1 TB(333 GB Platters)

So it's not just Samsung's "crap marketing", all companies do it for the sake of niche markets, some people do not want Hard drives with 1TB capacity, so the manufacturers have made smaller, less expensive ones, using the same platter, but hampered.

[3NZ0]

Why EcoCrap, why not SpinPoint F4 2TB. A motherf**king fast and big drive!?

Because it's not only stupid but pointless to buy a hard drive over 1tb for performance reasons.

If you want performance, you'd go ssd or if you still needed space, vraptor/sas. Anything over 1tb is seen as a storage drive these days. Sure you can go and get your seagate xt or black 2tb but I've used them and they are crap and you can't boot from gpt unless you have an efi.

They hog power, produce an enormous amount of heat (black 2tb's need serous airflow), are very noisy and not that much quicker.

I've replaced my black 2tb's with eco f4's and it's one of the best moves I've made. I'll be replacing a batch of 1tb blacks in my server with them.